engineer

«engineer» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who designs and builds machines, bridges, roads… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an engineer, engineers); verb (engineer, engineers, engineered, engineering)

meaning for a pupil

1) An engineer is a person who designs and builds machines, bridges, roads, buildings, computers or other things, using science and maths. tree →

2) An engineer is a person who fixes or looks after engines and machines. tree →

3) To engineer means to design and build something, or to arrange something cleverly, sometimes secretly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In STEM lessons, pupils act like engineers: they design, test and improve bridges, towers and machines. In everyday life, engineers make roads, phones, cars and water systems. Phrases: civil engineer, software engineer, engineering, design engineer.

examples

• My mum is an engineer who builds bridges. tree →
• Engineers designed this tall building. tree →
• We acted like engineers and built a paper bridge. tree →
• A software engineer writes computer programs. tree →
• The ship's engineer fixed the engine. tree →
• She wants to be an engineer when she grows up. tree →
• The plan was cleverly engineered. tree →
• For the gardener's boy meant, as soon as he was grown up, to be a general and a poet and a Prime Minister and an admiral and a civil engineer. tree →

note

Countable; use an: an engineer. Subject: engineering. Stress on the last part: en-gi-NEER. Engineers can be anyone, girls and boys alike; maths and science help.

In the corpora

• An architect designs a building and works with engineers; builders, electricians, plumbers and many others build it.
• "Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US).
• "Domestic engineer" is a joking name for a housewife, househusband or homemaker.
• Romans were great engineers, building aqueducts for water, arches, domes and concrete.
• The Mongols used Chinese and Persian engineers to besiege walled cities, and cities that resisted were often destroyed and many people died.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «engineer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.