Definition of Engineer

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Engineer

A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

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Engineer Quotations

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
Steve Wozniak

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
Sally Ride

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
Lenny Kravitz

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Tim Berners-Lee

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
Koichi Tanaka

Engineer Translations

engineer in Afrikaans is ingenieur
engineer in Dutch is ingenieur
engineer in German is Ingenieur, Ingenieur
engineer in Italian is ingengnere, ingegnere
engineer in Portuguese is engenheiro, coordenador
engineer in Spanish is ingeniero

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