engineer

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 External links

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English engineour < Old French engignier < Mediaeval Latin ingeniarius < ingenium (“‘an engine’”) < in (“‘in’”) + gignere (“‘to beget, produce’”), OL. genere; see ingenious.

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engineer (plural engineers)

1. A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering.
2. A person who, given a problem and a specific set of goals and constraints, finds a technical solution to the problem that satisfies those goals within those constraints. The goals and constraints may be technical, social, or business related.
3. A person who operates an engine (such as a locomotive).

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• engine
• ingenious
• ingeniosity
• genius

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to engineer (third-person singular simple present engineers, present participle engineering, simple past and past participle engineered)

1. (transitive) To design, construct or manage something as an engineer.
2. (transitive) To alter or construct something by means of genetic engineering.
3. (transitive) To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.

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• engineer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• engineer in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911