engineer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.

   “For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]”

2. isim A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.

   “This is hard welcome, but it was not you, / At whom the fatal enginer did ayme, / My breaſt the levell was, though you the marke, / In which conſpiracie anſwere me Duke, / Is not thy ſoule as guiltie as the Earles?”

3. isim 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.

   “[T]o an Enginer alſo, vvho promiſed to bring into the Capitoll huge Columnes vvith ſmall charges, hee gave for his deviſe no meane revvard; and releaſed him his labour in performing that vvorke, ſaying vvithall by vvay of preface, That he ſhould ſuffer him to feed the poore commons.”

4. isim 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.”

5. isim A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.

   “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.”

6. isim A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
7. isim A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
8. isim Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.

   “a political engineer”

9. isim A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.

   “But the trimme ſilke-worme I looked for (as it were in a proper contempt of common fineneſſe) prooveth but a ſilly glow-woorme, and the dreadfull enginer of phraſes, in steede of thunderboltes, ſhooteth nothing but dogboltes and catboltes, and the homelieſt boltes of rude folly: […]”

10. isim An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
11. fiil 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.
12. fiil 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.”

13. fiil To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
14. fiil To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
15. fiil To work as an engineer.

    “What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters,—tunnelling Alps, canalling the American Isthmus, piercing the Arabian desert?”