engineer
A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
Noun 4 meanings
A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
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.
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.
A person trained to operate an engine.
Verb 4 meanings
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.
To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
Etymology
The noun is derived from: * Middle English enginour (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.
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ENGINEER at a glance
ENGINEER has 8 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (E 1 + N 1 + G 2 + I 1 + N 1 + E 1 + E 1 + R 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,928 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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