engine.
engineer.
engineering.
engraved.
engraver.
engraving.
England.
English.
England
English
engineer
engineering
First recorded in 1955–60; by analogy with the names of m and n; see also agma ( def. )
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By the time I was trying to transfer to another eng organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%.
From The Verge ● Oct. 23, 2017
No need to run my creds, I'll still be an eng without your validation.
From Time ● Aug. 5, 2015
N. Y., P. M. gen, a m, mrs, no, u s a, n e, eng, p o, rev, prof, dr, gram, capt, coi, co, va, conn.
From Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Reed, Alonzo
It generally ends in ing, eng, or g; as, Tebahkooneding, Ruling, &c.
From Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words by Summerfield, John
The locative termination is "ong," "eng," or "ing."
From History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author by Blackbird, Andrew J.
Shares in Enagas ENG 15.08%increase; green up pointing triangle jumped to a two-year high after Spain’s competition and markets authority set out a framework for new renewable gases remuneration incentives covering 2027-32.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
These experiments are possible because of the work of Keith Brown, an ENG associate professor of mechanical engineering, and his team in the KABlab.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
It will either read ENG / US or ENG / INTL.
From The Verge ● Apr. 26, 2022
The booths are decorated with Japanese art from famous masters like Hokusai, and carry labels like JPN or ENG to designate the languages being worked.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
On one scrap, an inscription clearly read ENG.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whittlesey, Chas., colonel and eng. on Cox's staff; appointed colonel of 20th Ohio.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson
Wagner, O. G., lieutenant of eng., superintends fortifications at Gauley; modest young man of great promise, killed at Yorktown.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson
Weight on truck with steam eng. & boil., lbs.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
J., captain eng. and aide-de-camp on Schofield's staff, takes message to Sherman.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson
Merrill, W. E., colonel and eng., in charge of railroad defences; on construction and use of blockhouses.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson
Birmingham, Eng., became the home of the steel pen; it continues so.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rabbit In Bedford, Eng., died one William Rabbit, for 59 years a gardener.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the town of Brighton, Eng., where middle-class Londoners go for weekends, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in 1872.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first 18 holes he made in 67, the second in 68, a total just one stroke above Bobby Jones's record of 134, at Sunningdale, Eng., last summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
New Eng. and N. Y. to L. Superior, and northward.—A handsomer tree than n. 1,
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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