Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is trained or professionally engaged in a branch of engineering.
- noun One who operates an engine.
- noun One who skillfully or shrewdly manages an enterprise.
- transitive verb To plan, construct, or manage as an engineer.
- transitive verb To alter or produce by methods of genetic engineering.
- transitive verb To plan, manage, and bring about by skillful acts or contrivance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person skilled in the principles and practice of any department of engineering.
- noun An engine-driver; one who manages an engine; a person who has charge of an engine and its connected machinery, as on board a steam-vessel.
- noun One who carries through any scheme or enterprise by skill or artful contrivance; a manager.
- noun The title of an officer of the corps of civil engineers of the United States Navy. See
corps . - noun An official grade of governmental engineering officers in some countries, as in France.
- To plan and direct the formation or carrying out of; direct as an engineer: as, to
engineer a canal or a tunnel. - To work upon; ply; try some scheme or plan upon.
- To guide or manage by ingenuity and tact; conduct through or over obstacles by contrivance and effort: as, to
engineer a bill through Congress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under
engineering , n. - noun One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
- noun colloq. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
- noun a person skilled in the science of civil engineering.
- noun one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under
Engineering . - transitive verb To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on.
- transitive verb colloq. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is
qualified orprofessionally engaged in anybranch ofengineering . - noun A person trained in a
natural science that applies such knowledge towards a practical objective. - noun A person who, given a practical scientific
problem involving the physical world and a specific set ofgoals andconstraints , finds atechnical solution to the problem that satisfies those goals within those constraints. The goals and constraints may be technical, social, or business related. - noun A person who
operates anengine (such as alocomotive ). - verb transitive To
design ,construct ormanage something as an engineer. - verb transitive To
alter orconstruct something by means ofgenetic engineering. - verb transitive To
plan orachieve somegoal bycontrivance orguile ; towangle orfinagle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb design as an engineer
- noun the operator of a railway locomotive
- noun a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
- verb plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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A train engineer is lulled to sleep by the monotony of the job and misses a signal.
Transportation safety: Efforts to curb fatigue-related accidents often languish Tessa Muggeridge 2010
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A train engineer is lulled to sleep by the monotony of the job and misses a signal.
Transportation safety: Efforts to curb fatigue-related accidents often languish Tessa Muggeridge 2010
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In contrast, the term engineer is often associated with someone called out to repair a photocopier or gas boiler, where they are often dressed in clothing that is functional rather than a suit.
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D. from two of the world’s finest engineering schools, a sizable handful of publications in peer-reviewed engineering and scientific journals (and a number more at large conferences), and am currently a working engineer consulting to the nuclear power industry in Ontario (where, incidentally, it is illegal for an unqualified person such as yourself to use the title engineer).
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The exact words of the engineer is that the block alone provides little actual structural support in the case of an earthquake.
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The exact words of the engineer is that the block alone provides little actual structural support in the case of an earthquake.
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In September, a commuter train engineer missed a stop signal while trading text messages with a friend, leading to a collision with a freight train that killed 25 people in California, according to federal investigators.
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The exact words of the engineer is that the block alone provides little actual structural support in the case of an earthquake.
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Matthews, a full-time network engineer, is the main financial backer, but Sawyers — a geotechnical engineer — played a key role: When the men needed more space, they moved their winery from Matthews 'basement to the garage of Sawyers' mom.
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The exact words of the engineer is that the block alone provides little actual structural support in the case of an earthquake.
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