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▸ noun: A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.
▸ noun: (by extension)
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A person trained to operate an engine; an engineman.
▸ noun: (chiefly 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.
▸ noun: (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine.
▸ noun: (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
▸ noun: Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
▸ noun: (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ 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.
▸ verb: (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
▸ verb: To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
▸ verb: (rare) To work as an engineer.
Similar:
organize,
orchestrate,
engine driver,
mastermind,
technologist,
direct,
applied scientist,
railroad engineer,
architect,
technician,
more...
Opposite:
Types:
civil,
mechanical,
electrical,
chemical,
software,
aerospace,
biomedical,
environmental,
industrial,
more...
Phrases:
Adjectives:
chief,
civil,
electrical,
mechanical,
young,
structural,
industrial,
assistant,
french,
military,
professional
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