Definition of "engineer" in Anglais

noun

1. A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.

2. A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. A person trained to operate an engine.

6. Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.

   • a political engineer

7. A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.

8. An honorific title given to engineers before their name.

verb

1. 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.

2. To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).

3. To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.

4. To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.

5. To work as an engineer.