engineer | | |
n. (person) | 1. applied scientist, engineer, technologist | a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ aeronautical engineer | an engineer concerned with the design and construction of aircraft. |
| ~ aerospace engineer | an engineer of aircraft and space vehicles. |
| ~ army engineer, military engineer | a member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work. |
| ~ automotive engineer | an engineer concerned with the design and construction of automobiles. |
| ~ civil engineer | an engineer trained to design and construct and maintain public works (roads or bridges or harbors etc.). |
| ~ electrical engineer | a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity. |
| ~ marine engineer, naval engineer | a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines. |
| ~ mechanical engineer | a person trained to design and construct machines. |
| ~ metallurgical engineer, metallurgist | an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals. |
| ~ mining engineer | an engineer concerned with the construction and operation of mines. |
| ~ coder, computer programmer, programmer, software engineer | a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs. |
| ~ rocket engineer, rocket scientist | an engineer who builds and tests rockets. |
| ~ surveyor | an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures. |
| ~ daimler, gottlieb daimler | German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900). |
| ~ diesel, rudolf christian karl diesel, rudolf diesel | German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913). |
| ~ bryan donkin, donkin | English engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855). |
| ~ alexandre gustave eiffel, eiffel | French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923). |
| ~ buckminster fuller, r. buckminster fuller, richard buckminster fuller, fuller | United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983). |
| ~ george washington goethals, goethals | United States army officer and engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal (1858-1928). |
| ~ hugo junkers, junkers | German aircraft engineer who designed the first all-metal airplane (1859-1935). |
| ~ charles franklin kettering, charles kettering, kettering | United States electrical engineer who made numerous automotive improvements (including the electric starter) (1876-1958). |
| ~ da vinci, leonardo, leonardo da vinci | Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519). |
| ~ john augustus roebling, john roebling, roebling | United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869). |
| ~ claude e. shannon, claude elwood shannon, claude shannon, shannon | United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001). |
| ~ karl wilhelm siemens, sir charles william siemens, siemens | engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883). |
| ~ elmer ambrose sperry, sperry | United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930). |
| ~ richard trevithick, trevithick | English engineer who built the first railway locomotive (1771-1833). |
| ~ thomas augustus watson, watson | United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934). |
| ~ james watt, watt | Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819). |
n. (person) | 2. engine driver, engineer, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer | the operator of a railway locomotive. |
| ~ manipulator, operator | an agent that operates some apparatus or machine.; "the operator of the switchboard" |
| ~ casey jones, john luther jones, jones | United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900). |
v. (cognition) | 3. engineer | design as an engineer.; "He engineered the water supply project" |
| ~ design, plan | make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form.; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum" |
v. (cognition) | 4. direct, engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize | plan and direct (a complex undertaking).; "he masterminded the robbery" |
| ~ plan | make plans for something.; "He is planning a trip with his family" |
| ~ choreograph | plan and oversee the development and details of.; "The meeting between the two Presidents had been carefully choreographed" |
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