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engineer

Definitions


[ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures

- a person who controls an engine, especially on an aircraft or ship

- a skilful contriver or originator of something
(e.g: the prime engineer of the approach)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer): in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare ‘contrive, devise’, from Latin ingenium (see engine); in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium, with the ending influenced by -eer


[ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- design and build (a machine or structure)
(e.g: the men who engineered the tunnel)

- skilfully arrange for (something) to occur
(e.g: she engineered another meeting with him)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer): in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare ‘contrive, devise’, from Latin ingenium (see engine); in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium, with the ending influenced by -eer




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