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Engineer   /ˈɛndʒənˈɪr/   Listen
noun
Engineer  n.  
1.
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering; as, a civil engineer; an electronic engineer; a chemical engineer. 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.


verb
Engineer  v. t.  (past & past part. engineered; pres. part. engineering)  
1.
To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
2.
To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. (Colloq.)





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"Engineer" Quotes from Famous Books



... off even for us to whom he came each time with a comparative freshness. And if it hadn't worn off for his public and for the confraternity, it was simply because as an engineer of literature he was inexhaustible. He had so perfected his machinery that the turning out of novels and of plays had become with him a sort of automatic habit, and if there was any falling off in ...
— The Belfry • May Sinclair
... this, for between Johannesburg and Pretoria this train met with one of the collisions so frequent on the Netherlands Railway. Only the engineer and a brakeman were killed, but the shock would certainly have been most disastrous ...
— A Woman's Part in a Revolution • Natalie Harris Hammond
... she continued, taking out a pinch of bayberry snuff, "I am left alone in the world. Alone, I say! why, I've got a daughter, but she is away out West. She is married to an engineer-man. And I've ...
— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various
... once more just above Dedisham, on the road between Guildford and Horsham, and keep it all the way to Pulborough, through Billingshurst, thus named, as I have said, like Billingsgate, after Belinus, Stane Street's engineer. At Pulborough we must cut across country to the camp by Hardham, over water meadows that are too often flooded, and thence, through other fields, arable and pasture, to the hostel on Bignor Hill, which once was Stane Street; passing on the right Mr. Tupper's farm and ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas
... Engineer with fondness for travel and inventions. Perhaps you will also write books on some new methods in heating houses—an oven and tubes are in formation; so also a tall man at his desk with pencils. ...
— Cupology - How to Be Entertaining • Clara


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