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[en-juh-neer]

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noun

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.

a person who operates or is in charge of an engine.

Also called locomotive engineer. Railroads. a person who operates or is in charge of a locomotive.

a member of an army, navy, or air force specially trained in engineering work.

a skillful manager: a political engineer.

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verb (used with object)

to plan, construct, or manage as an engineer: He's engineered several big industrial projects.

to design or create using the techniques or methods of engineering: The motor has been engineered to run noiselessly.

to arrange, manage, or carry through by skillful or artful contrivance: He certainly engineered the election campaign beautifully.

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Origin:
1350–1400; engine + -eer; replacing Middle English engin(e)our < Anglo-French engineor Old French engigneor < Medieval Latin ingeniātor, equivalent to ingeniā(re) to design, devise (verbal derivative of ingenium; see engine) + Latin -tor -tor

Related forms

sub·en·gi·neer, noun

un·en·gi·neered, adjective

well-en·gi·neered, adjective

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Its aim is to engineer organisms that perform functions of use to humans.

There it's an honour to be an engineer instead of an investment banker.

Engineer your own turbine and find out for yourself whether or not the answer to our clean energy problem is blowin' in the wind.

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Its aim is to engineer organisms that perform functions of use to humans.

There it's an honour to be an engineer instead of an investment banker.

Engineer your own turbine and find out for yourself whether or not the answer to our clean energy problem is blowin' in the wind.

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So bikers, play informant for your architect, designer or engineer friends and all you biking architects out there get busy.

Or your plumber, pastor, and that quiet chemical engineer down the street.

The engineer can virtually remove a part from the model, turn it around, and change its diameter or location.

I've known one petro engineer in my life, and he found his work quite fulfilling.

They will engineer them at the nanoscale, where things are measured in billionths of a metre.

Another engineer is applying a similar concept to bridges.

Annette really defies the stereotype of a geeky engineer.

He became certified in residential construction while working as a structural engineer in a homebuilding firm.

The candidate should have an educational background that would permit licensure as a professional engineer.

However, it applies mostly to products that are easy to reverse engineer.

Perhaps they could also use this to find a target unique to all strains of staph and then engineer a phage to exploit it.

The condo owners consulted with a structural engineer before placing the troughs on the roof.

The brainchild of an engineer who previously worked on computer.

The work is part of a broader effort to engineer plants.

Researchers engineer mice to see the world as humans do, provide clues to how primate vision evolved.

Brungraber is the senior engineer and resident eccentric at.

So he gave up haute couture to become a softwear engineer.

There was an affable, out-of-work engineer looking to study for a new.

Whenever an engineer or some other nay-sayer explained that it could not work, he simply replied:.

The availability of a commercial shuttle service allows you to engineer a hike of any length.

Robertson, the revered engineer responsible for their structural design, was at first unconcerned.

And he took almost all his train pictures at night, when he could engineer his scenes without the sun getting in his way.

The bank is a vast machine, and he is its chief engineer.

More often seen in aquariums than in the wild, they are popularly called convict blennies or engineer gobies.

Instead, build a strong resume as a civil engineer in your country.

His recording engineer stopped the tape, telling him he couldn't say that.

However, scientists were unable to engineer red florescent proteins.

It lays down the gauntlet for us to learn how to engineer genomes".

But still what does an old engineer know about fashion.

How he really saw himself was as a construction engineer.

The engineer who crawled underneath the blown reactor while radioactive liquid was dripping is also alive and well.

It lays down the gauntlet for us to learn how to engineer genomes.

It may be possible to engineer a system that does, or to add complexity by giving each replicator more genes with which to work.

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engineer (ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪə)

—n
1.	a person trained in any branch of the profession of engineering
2.	the originator or manager of a situation, system, etc
3.	a mechanic; person who repairs or services machines
4.	(US), (Canadian) the driver of a railway locomotive
5.	an officer responsible for a ship's engines
6.	Informal name: sapper a member of the armed forces, esp the army, trained in engineering and construction work

—vb
7.	to originate, cause, or plan in a clever or devious manner: he engineered the minister's downfall
8.	to design, plan, or construct as a professional engineer

[C14: enginer, from Old French engigneor, from engignier to contrive, ultimately from Latin ingenium skill, talent; see engine]

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Word Origin & History

engineer

early 14c., "constructor of military engines," from O.Fr. engigneor, from L.L. ingeniare (see engine); general sense of "inventor, designer" is recorded from early 15c.; civil sense, in ref. to public works, is recorded from c.1600. Meaning "locomotive driver" is first attested

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1832, Amer.Eng. The verb is attested from 1843; figurative sense of "arrange, contrive" is attested from 1864, originally in a political context. Related: Engineered. Engineering as a field of study is attested from 1792; an earlier word was engineership (1640s). Engineery was attempted in 1793, but it did not stick.

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