engineer

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1.A person trained to operate an engine.
- The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him.
- One of the stokers was disabled, the others had given in, the second engineer and the donkey-man were firing-up. The third engineer was standing by the steam-valve. The engines were being tended by hand.
2.A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
3.A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
4.Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- Macanopoietico, an inginer, an engine-maker.
- Somehow, everybody who isn’t in sales, marketing, or design became an engineer. “We’re hiring engineers,” read startup websites, which could mean anything from Javascript^([sic]) programmers to roboticists.

1.To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
2.To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
3.To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
4.To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- In an interesting animal study, scientists engineered mice with a specific gene defect that caused memory and learning problems.