engine room

English

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Noun

engine room (plural engine rooms)

1. (nautical) A compartment on a ship in which the engine machinery is located.

   Synonym: engineering

2. (rail transport) The engine compartment of a diesel locomotive.
   • 1958 September, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 601:

     For rigidity, two bulkheads are provided which are welded to the sides and underframe and which separate the cabs from the engine room.

3. (figurative) The source of power in a team or other group.
   1. (sports) The midfield.
      • 2017 February 10, Mark Lawrenson, “Liverpool playing sideways and safe - why the Reds' midfield is misfiring”, in BBC‎^[1]:

        When I look at what is going wrong for Liverpool at the moment, a lot of it stems from the engine room of the team - the midfield.

   2. (rugby union) The pair of locks in a team.
   3. (rugby league) The front row.
   4. (music) The rhythm section of a steel band.
      • 2018, Polly Thomas, The Rough Guide to Trinidad and Tobago‎^[2], Apa Publications, →ISBN:

        And no steel band would be complete without its rhythm section or engine room, as the percussion section is known.

Related terms

• engine bay
• engine compartment

Translations

compartment on a ship

• Bulgarian: машинно отделение n (mašinno otdelenie)
• Catalan: sala de màquines
• Danish: maskinrum n
• Dutch: machinekamer (nl) f
• Finnish: konehuone (fi)
• French: salle des machines (fr) f
• Galician: sala de máquinas (gl) f
• German: Maschinenraum (de) m
• Italian: sala macchine f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maskinrom n, motorrom n

  Nynorsk: maskinrom n, motorrom n

• Polish: maszynownia (pl) f, siłownia (pl) f
• Russian: маши́нное отделе́ние n (mašínnoje otdelénije)
• Spanish: sala de máquinas f