Engineer: Definition and part of speech

Engineer

  1. n. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
  2. n. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
  3. n. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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