engineer 
en·gi·neer (en′jə nir′)
noun
- Now Rare a person who makes engines
- a person skilled or occupied in some branch of engineering a mechanical engineer
- a person who operates or supervises the operation of engines or technical equipment a locomotive engineer, radio engineer
- a specialist in planning and directing operations in some technical field
- a skillful or clever manager
- Mil. a member of a military engineering unit trained in the construction and demolition of bridges, roads, airfields, etc.
Etymology: earlier enginer < ME enginour < OFr engigneur
transitive verb
- ☆ to plan, construct, or manage as an engineer
- ☆ to plan and direct skillfully; superintend; guide (a measure, action, etc. through)
engineer
n.
A specialist in engineering
surveyor, designer, planner, builder, inventor, technician, bridge monkey*, sights*, techie*. see also electronics, science 1.Types of engineers include: mining, civil, metallurgical, geological, atomic, nuclear, architectural, chemical, construction, stationary, military, naval, flight, pneumatic, hydraulic, marine, electronic, communications, electrical, mechanical, acoustic, design, manufacturing, industrial, research, developmental, systems;
The operator of a locomotive
driver, motorman, brakeman, stoker, fireman, engineman, hoghead*, hogger*, Casey Jones*, lokey man*, engine tamer*.
Object
- crop: Overall, the use of genetically engineered crops in North America continues to increase.
- organism: But once released into the environment genetically engineered organisms are there forever.
Converse of object
- qualify: Delivery and Installation fully qualified engineers deliver and install to your exact specification.
- appoint: Grand Union Regents Canal James Morgan He was appointed engineer with a salary of £ 1,000 a year.
- practice: Intended Audience Participants will be practicing software engineers who already know and use Java.
- consult: Lydney Canal William Whitworth He recommended Josias Jessop as consulting engineer for the canal.
- reverse: Weak enforcement of intellectual protection laws enabled domestic producers to reverse engineer and imitate foreign technologies with little fear of prosecution.
Adjective modifier
- chartered: Terry is a Chartered Engineer with a considerable range of industrial experience.
- structural: He would have incorporated the structural engineer 's design into his drawings.
- incorporated: This one year course is pending accreditation by the Institute of Incorporated Engineers.
- civil: Now we wait for the civil engineers report on what needs to be done to fix it.
- electrical: How many electrical engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
- mechanical: The mechanical services engineer should be involved at the earliest possible stage.
Modifies a noun
- researching: Electrical engineer Researching occupations - Need to find out more about a type of job?
Noun used with modifier
- consulting: He subsequently became the consulting engineer for the Bridgewater Canal.
- electronics: This role is not suited to a PC-based software developer or consumer electronics software engineer.
- mining: Whiston Grange and Lane End House belonged to Frederick Parker Rhodes, local solicitor and his brother Charles a mining engineer.
- highway: He proposed a national center to get the planners, architects, developers, housing professionals and even the highway engineers to work together.
- software: She is a software engineer by profession, living in the Silicon Valley.
- chemical: The chemical engineer said " Obviously, some constituent of the fuel has caused this failure to occur.
Yet her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt towards Him as she might have felt towards a glorified sanitary engineer; and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to distinguish between the Deity and the Drains.
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