the internal combustion engine
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinternal,combustionandengine
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internal
adjective
uk/ɪnˈtɜː.nəl/us/ɪnˈtɝː.nəl/
inside ...
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combustion
noun[U]
uk/kəmˈbʌs.tʃən/us/kəmˈbʌs.tʃən/
the process ...
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engine
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.dʒɪn/us/ˈen.dʒɪn/
a machine that uses the energy from liquid fuel or steam to ...
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(Definition ofinternal,combustionandenginefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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All that pollution is transport borne: it all comes from motor vehicles and the internalcombustionengine.
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The world motor car industry is highly competitive, and our competitors are very competent manufacturers of the internalcombustionengine.
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We then saw the inexorable rise of the internalcombustionengine.
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Anyone who tries to frustrate or inhibit the use of the internalcombustionengine, in my view, is frustrating progress.
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We have open war between personal movement on the highway and the mobile, armoured internalcombustionengine.
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The one prescribed substance which, sadly, is eliminated from consideration under the clause is carbon monoxide emitted by the internalcombustionengine.
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The greatest social revolution which has ever taken place in this country has been caused by the invention of the internalcombustionengine.
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To me it seems that the coming of the internalcombustionenginehas created a revolution in many directions.
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I suspect that motor manufacturers are still committed to the standard internalcombustionengine, driven by petrol or diesel oil.
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In any event, no one has seriously argued that it was ever possible to create an entirely clean, green internalcombustionengine.
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A group of children is no more likely to invent an alphabet than it is to invent the internalcombustionengine.
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We do not all want to have a knowledge of the internalcombustionengine.
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It is a product of the internalcombustionengine.
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In the past few years, the development of the internalcombustionenginehas increased dramatically.
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It is not only in the air that the internalcombustionenginehas profoundly altered the character of war.
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That applies to public transport policy as well as to the internalcombustionengine.
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I understand that it is to increase the acceleration of the internalcombustionengineand of the motor vehicle.
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We are considering alternatives to the internalcombustionengine.
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Paradoxically enough, the problem has largely arisen since the advent of the internalcombustionengine.
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Ever since the invention of the internalcombustionengine, there has been growing difficulty for the railway transport system.
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He hit the headlines by speaking about the need for higher taxes on petrol in order to reduce the use of the internalcombustionengine.
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The importance of the internalcombustionengineto litigation has been prodigious.
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Most of us of middle age have not yet learned the lesson of the internalcombustionengine.
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We have to remember that road transport in this country can be grouped under three forms of propulsion—electrical, steam and the internalcombustionengine.
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The internalcombustionengineemits some fumes which are harmful to the environment.
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If the internalcombustionenginewere developed it might easily create a new state of affairs in all the factories and mills of the country.
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Does he believe that the invention of the internalcombustionenginehas had anything to do with that?
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