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Engineer - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Engineer : \En`gi*neer"\, n. [OE. enginer: cf. OF. engignier, F.
ing['e]nieur. See Engine, n.]
1. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any
branch of engineering. 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Engineer : \En`gi*neer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engineered; p. pr.
& vb. n. Engineering.]
1. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the
work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. --J.
Hamilton.
2. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of;
to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.
[Colloq.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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