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engineer
/ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/
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What does engineer mean?
noun
- (figuratively) A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
More meanings (12)
noun
- A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- (figuratively, obsolete) A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.
- (historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
verb
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/
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See this word in context.
Neither the engineer nor the stoker was dead, and, after remaining for some time in their swoon, had come to themselves.
On inquiry, it proved that such was the case, and that a wandering fiddler was the unfailing harbinger of the engineer.
More book examples (3)
He becomes a workman or a foreman if he can get no further, an engineer if his aptitudes take him as far.
Mr. Lloyd, the chief engineer of the Navy, conducted the investigation, and reported most favourably as to the manner of her performance.
He was furnishing the money to put a young brother through a polytechnic school and satisfy his desire to become a civil engineer.