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a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

design as an engineer; "He engineered the water supply project"

a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

design as an engineer; "He engineered the water supply project"

One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

One who is skilled in the principles or practice of any branch of mechanical science; one who has charge of and manages an engine or locomotive; one of an army corps which builds bridges, roads, etc., for military use; one who carries through a scheme or undertaking.

To plan, lay out, or direct; plan and execute the construction of (a road, canal, etc).

An engine-maker or manager: one who directs military works and engines: a CIVIL ENGINEER, one who superintends the construction of public works: a MECHANICAL ENGINEER practices the avocation of the machinist, in executing the presses, mills, looms, and other great machines employed in the arts and manufactures, particularly in constructing steam-engines, and the apparatus by which they are rendered available for giving motion to ships, carriages, or machinery: one who manages military engines or artillery: an engine-driver; one who manages a railway engine; a person who attends to the machinery on board a steam-vessel: one who carries through any scheme or enterprise by skill or artful contrivance; a manager.

To direct as an engineer the execution or formation of; to perform the office of an engineer in respect of; as, to engineer a canal, to engineer a tunnel through the Alps: to work upon; to ply; to try some scheme or plan upon. "Unless we engineered him with question after question we could get nothing out of him."-Cowper. Also to guide or manage by ingenuity and tact; to conduct through or over obstacles by contrivance and effort; as, to engineer a bill through a legislative body.

One who has charge of the construction of military or public works; an engine-driver.

To execute by contrivance.

To plan and superintend the construction of.

One versed in or practising engineering.

One who runs an engine.

n. A constructor of engines; a mechanist;—one who manages a steam engine;—a person skilled in the principles and practice of engineering, either civil or military.

One who manages engines, one who directs the artillery of an army.