engineer
- IPA[ˌenjəˈnir]
美式
- a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works.；a person qualified in a branch of engineering, especially as a professional
- design and build (a machine or structure)；skillfully or artfully arrange for (an event or situation) to occur
verb: engineer, 3rd person present: engineers, gerund or present participle: engineering, past tense: engineered, past participle: engineered
noun: engineer, plural noun: engineers
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works. 同義詞
- ▪ a person qualified in a branch of engineering, especially as a professional an aeronautical engineer
- ▪ the operator or supervisor of an engine, especially a railroad locomotive or the engine on an aircraft or ship. 同義詞
- ▪ a skillful contriver or originator of something the prime engineer of the approach
動詞
- 1. design and build (a machine or structure) the men who engineered the tunnel
- ▪ skillfully or artfully arrange for (an event or situation) to occur she engineered another meeting with him
- ▪ modify (an organism) by manipulating its genetic material it is now possible to engineer tobacco plants that are resistant to the virus
