engineer
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
engineer/enʤɪˈnɪə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person qualified in engineering.
- 2 a person who maintains or controls an engine or machine.
- 3 a skilful contriver.
- 1 design and build.
- 2 skilfully arrange for (something) to happen.
- 3 modify (an organism) by manipulating its genetic material.
– origin ME: from OFr. engigneor, from med. L. ingeniator, from ingeniare ‘contrive’, from L. ingenium (see engine).
'engineer' also found in these Oxford entries:
Bailey bridge
- baud
- Bessemer process
- born
- carnallite
- CE
- CEng
- chartered
- chemical engineering
- civil engineer
- consult
- Coriolis effect
- coulomb
- diesel
- Dolby
- Feldenkrais method
- Ferris wheel
- fresnel lens
- greaser
- Hammond organ
- Heaviside layer
- imagineer
- Linux
- mechanical engineering
- Mills bomb
- Nissen hut
- Nobel Prize
- re-engineer
- reverse engineering
- sapper
- siemens
- sound engineer
- specify
- Stirling engine
- structural engineering
- tesla
- Wankel engine
- watt
- Whitworth
- Wimshurst machine
- Yagi antenna
