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engineer English

Meaning engineer meaning

What does engineer mean?
Definitions in simple English

engineer Noun

— An engineer is someone who is paid to solve technical problems, or to help invent things. — An engineer is someone who drives a train.

engineer Verb

— If you engineer something, you design or construct something. The man will engineer a new kind of car. — If you engineer something, you make or alter something by genetic engineering. — If you enginner something, you plan or achieve a goal with guile.

engineer

— noun a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems — noun the operator of a railway locomotive — verb design as an engineer He engineered the water supply project — verb (= mastermind, direct) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) he masterminded the robbery

Synonyms engineer synonyms

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engineer English » English

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Topics engineer topics

What do people use engineer to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with machines
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by land

Railroad

Conjugation engineer conjugation

How do you conjugate engineer?

engineer · verb

Examples engineer examples

How do I use engineer in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The seven questions that an engineer has to ask himself are: who, what, when, where, why, how and how much.
The engineer climbed the telephone pole.
Bob became an engineer.
Tom is an electrical engineer.
What made Bill decide to be an engineer?
The young engineer was deficient in experience.
Clive wants to be an electronic engineer.
My brother is an engineer.
My father is an electric engineer.
I want to be an engineer.
The engineer told us how to use the machine.
My brother became an engineer.
My father works at the factory as an engineer.
My father wants me to be an engineer.

Movie subtitles

In charge of the Moscow radio station was Engineer Los.
Among the employees of the center was Natasha, Engineer Los' wife.
Los' close friend and colleague - Engineer Spiridonov.
To Engineer M.S. Los, The administration of Volkhovstroi thanks you for almost a year of dedicated work.
Hank was a mining engineer who lived alone and occasionally went on long expeditions into the Far North.
Friede Velten, student of astronomy, and Hans Windegger, Chief Engineer of Helius Hangars are engaged.
That's one place that can use an engineer who's an ex-con.
Take me to Engineer Poelzig's house.
That high hill yonder where Engineer Poelzig now lives, was the site of Fort Marmorus.
Engineer Poelzig?
Engineer Poelzig will be expecting me.
Engineer Poelzig is one of Austria's greatest architects.
I'm the engineer.
I'm the engineer's assistant.
Engineer De Voogt from the PTT made one of these dishes available for research on the Galaxy in 1948.
The third witness was engineer Lebel and he tells of how he is one day visited by Monro, who is uncomfortably surprised to see him in good health.
Engineer, will you tell them to stop the boat from rocking?
I thought you were going to let that wait until that new survey engineer fellow. - You mean Willis?
The engineer's over there in the corner.
You did it because you wanted a good engineer, and I've done a swell job.
You've done a swell job and let me tell you, you're a very fine engineer.
I'm a motor engineer.
I worked as an engineer in Lyons.
Engineer, Ordnance Survey.
Phil Church, an engineer.
And Church was an engineer. Here we are.
But we have here with us an engineer from Caudron.
Except to take me to Number 5 and the engineer to Number 6.
Somebody's gotta take Nolan down to Number 5 somebody else has to ferry that engineer down to Number 6.
Let's see. What about the engineer?
I'm an engineer, and naval ordinance just happens to be my subject.
Stephanie, you must have known when you married me that I'm nothing very special. I'm a good naval engineer but outside of that I'm no hero.
Parker, have the Chief Engineer report to me in the Chart Room on the double.
I've asked the Chief Engineer to come up here to find out if it's possible to turn off every piece of machinery.
Engineer Giorgio Manfredi.
Who are they? He's an engineer by the name of Manfredi.
Oh, the engineer!
Tell me, Mr engineer, where do water come from?
The engineer knows more about this.
You're the engineer.

News and current affairs

Enver Ziganshin, the chief engineer of BP Russia, was shot to death in Irkutsk on September 30.
One proposed solution is for these countries to engineer the equivalent of a devaluation - a uniform decrease in wages.
China's government believed that it could engineer a soft landing in the transition from torrid double-digit economic growth, fueled by exports and investments, to steady and balanced growth underpinned by domestic consumption, especially of services.
For example, in 1998 it sentenced a Shanghai engineer to two years in prison for selling 30,000 Chinese e-mail addresses to an overseas-based dissident newsletter.
Of real significance here is the press service, All4Syria (www.all4syria.org), created by the Syrian engineer Ayman Abdul Nour.
Can we engineer new debt contracts for countries like Argentina?
Whether they will be able to engineer the necessary institutional shifts remains to be seen.
Like manufacturing supply chains in the wake of the Japanese disruption, financial supply chains face formidable pressures to re-engineer and adapt as the global economic balance shifts towards emerging markets.
When the German engineer Karl Benz invented the first petroleum-powered automobile, he did not just create an engine with wheels; he set in motion an industry that revolutionized the way society was structured.
And so it has remained: budgets are cut, growth falters, and periphery countries must engineer substantial real exchange-rate devaluations to regain competitiveness and close their external deficits.
In fact, designing in a climate of success can be dangerous for an engineer.
Europe could re-engineer the eurozone to enable debt sustainability and high economic growth.
Now, women like Noushin, a student from Esfahan who told the BBC that she wanted to be a mechanical engineer, are unable to achieve their ambitions, despite getting high scores on their entrance exams.
Draghi made that very point in his speech at the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in late August, and several economists have suggested that it is time for the eurozone to engineer a temporary fiscal expansion.
And can Aung San Suu Kyi, the heroic opposition leader, and Thein Sein, Burma's new president, engineer a political transition as skillfully and peacefully as Mandela and de Klerk did for South Africa in the early 1990's?
Instead, public servants now appear to be in cahoots with Wall Street to engineer an artificial aura of profitability.
Carter was a somewhat bland engineer, whereas Obama is a charismatic lawyer.
Some within the Chinese Communist Party leadership will support plans to engineer a shift from export-led growth to a model based on domestic consumption.
Against this backdrop, it is hardly surprising that China has been using its growing global influence to help engineer a new economic order - one in which the US dollar does not reign supreme.
At times, it seemed that the result would be much closer, or even that we British might engineer the dismemberment of our country, which for centuries has brought together four national communities: England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.
A university-educated Syrian civil engineer arriving in Munich will need to learn some German; but, once this is done, he or she is unlikely to have to wait too long before employers come knocking.
The farmer and the forest worker could become more involved in the market, the mine engineer could begin to take an interest in crop fields, the banker in plant shares, etc.
There, he might fall into a discussion with a software engineer about, say, whether ethical questions can be answered through crowdsourcing.
Think of how hard it is to engineer a soft landing in market-based economies.
Can China's government engineer a soft landing while weeding out corruption, reducing pollution, and liberalizing markets to ensure long-term growth?
This will be an exciting time to be a scientist or engineer facing the challenges of sustainable development.

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