engineer

Meanings

Noun

• A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering.
• A person who controls motion of substance (such as a locomotive).
• A person employed in the engine room of a ship.

Verb

• To design, construct or manage something as an engineer.
• To alter or construct something by means of genetic engineering.
• To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.
• To control motion of substance; to change motion.
• To work as an engineer.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• aeronautical engineer
• aerospace engineer
• certification engineer
• chemical engineer
• civil engineer
• ecosystem engineer
• efficiency engineer
• electrical engineer
• field applications engineer
• field engineer
• firmware engineer
• flight engineer
• genetic engineer
• graduate engineer
• hardware engineer
• highway engineer
• integration engineer
• knowledge engineer
• locating engineer
• locomotive engineer
• marine engineer
• mechanical engineer
• mechatronics engineer
• metallurgic engineer
• military engineer
• mining engineer
• naval engineer
• network engineer
• product engineer
• railroad engineer
• sanitary engineer
• social engineer
• software engineer
• sound engineer
• structural engineer

Origin

• From Middle English engyneour, engineour, from Old French engigneor, engignier, from engin or from Medieval Latin ingeniator ("one who creates or one who uses an engine"), from ingenium, from in + gignere, Old Latin genere; see ingenious hence "one who produces or generates [new] things". Sometimes erroneously linked with engine + -eer .