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Engine room

Meaning in maritime & shipping, with examples

nounCore term

In maritime & shipping, engine room means: The space low inside a ship that holds the main engine, generators, pumps and other machinery. Engineers and engine ratings work and keep watch there.

In Turkish: makine dairesi

How it is used

Used for the place and, informally, for the engine department ('the engine room says we can increase speed'). Most modern ships have an engine control room (ECR), and many run with an unattended machinery space (UMS) at night.

Example sentences

  1. The bridge called the engine room to prepare the main engine for manoeuvring.

  2. Ear protection must be worn in the engine room at all times.

Common collocations

  • engine room watch
  • engine control room
  • engine room crew
  • engine room fire
  • chief engineerThe most senior engineer on board, responsible for the main engine and all machinery, fuel and the engine room crew. The chief engineer reports directly to the master.
  • main engineThe large engine that drives a ship's propeller. On most large merchant ships it is a slow-speed two-stroke diesel engine connected directly to the propeller shaft.
  • auxiliary engineA smaller diesel engine that drives a generator to produce the ship's electricity. Most ships have two to four of them, so that one can be stopped for maintenance.
  • bilgeThe lowest part inside a ship's hull, where water, oil and other liquids collect. The mixture that collects there is called bilge water.

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