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engineer - 5 dictionary results

en⋅gi⋅neer

[en-juh-neer]
–noun
1. a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering: a mechanical engineer; a civil engineer.
2. a person who operates or is in charge of an engine.
3. Also called locomotive engineer. Railroads. a person who operates or is in charge of a locomotive.
4. a member of an army, navy, or air force specially trained in engineering work.
5. a skillful manager: a political engineer.
–verb (used with object)
6. to plan, construct, or manage as an engineer: He's engineered several big industrial projects.
7. to design or create using the techniques or methods of engineering: The motor has been engineered to run noiselessly.
8. to arrange, manage, or carry through by skillful or artful contrivance: He certainly engineered the election campaign beautifully.

Origin:
1350–1400; engine + -eer; r. ME engin(e)our < AF engineor OF engigneor < ML ingeniātor, equiv. to ingeniā(re) to design, devise (v. deriv. of ingenium; see engine ) + L -tor -tor
en·gi·neer   (ěn'jə-nîr')   
n.  
  1. One who is trained or professionally engaged in a branch of engineering.
  2. One who operates an engine.
  3. One who skillfully or shrewdly manages an enterprise.
tr.v.   en·gi·neered, en·gi·neer·ing, en·gi·neers
  1. To plan, construct, or manage as an engineer.
  2. To alter or produce by methods of genetic engineering: "Researchers . . . compared insulin manufactured by bacteria genetically engineered with recombinant DNA techniques to the commercial insulin obtained from swine or cattle" (Fusion).
  3. To plan, manage, and put through by skillful acts or contrivance; maneuver.

[Middle English enginour, from Old French engigneor, from Medieval Latin ingeniātor, contriver, from ingeniāre, to contrive, from Latin ingenium, ability; see engine.]

Engineer

En`gi*neer"\, n. [OE. enginer: cf. OF. engignier, F. ing['e]nieur. See Engine, n.]

1. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

2. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

3. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. [Colloq.]

Civil engineer, a person skilled in the science of civil engineering.

Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.

Engineer

En`gi*neer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engineered; p. pr. & vb. n. Engineering.]

1. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. --J. Hamilton.

2. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.]
Language Translation for : engineer
Spanish: ingeniero, técnico,
German: der Ingenieur,
Japanese: 技師

Main Entry: en·gi·neer
Pronunciation: "en-j&-'ni(&)r
Function: transitive verb
: to modify or produce by genetic engineeringengineered bacteria —Technical Survey>
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