engineer
noun
[ ɛndʒɪˈnɪə ]
• a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures.
Similar:
designer,
planner,
builder,
architect,
producer,
fabricator,
developer,
creator,
inventor,
originator,
deviser,
contriver,
mastermind,
• a person who controls an engine, especially on an aircraft or ship.
Similar:
engineering officer,
controller,
handler,
driver,
operator,
mechanic,
machinist,
technician,
fitter,
artificer,
mech,
• a skilful contriver or originator of something.
• "the prime engineer of the approach"
engineer
verb
• design and build (a machine or structure).
• "the men who engineered the tunnel"
• skilfully arrange for (something) to occur.
• "she engineered another meeting with him"
Similar:
bring about,
cause,
arrange,
pull off,
bring off,
fix,
set up,
plot,
scheme,
contrive,
plan,
put together,
devise,
manoeuvre,
manipulate,
negotiate,
organize,
orchestrate,
choreograph,
mobilize,
mount,
stage,
put on,
mastermind,
originate,
manage,
stage-manage,
coordinate,
control,
superintend,
direct,
conduct,
handle,
concoct,
wangle,
concert,
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer ): in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare ‘contrive, devise’, from Latin ingenium (see engine); in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium, with the ending influenced by -eer.
