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Engineer

nounid 4867·updated May 18, 2026
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n. 3a: a designer or builder of engines; b: a person who is trained in or follows as a profession a branch of engineering; c: a person who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; 4: a person who runs or supervises an engine or an apparatus. v. 1: to lay out, construct, or manage as an engineer.

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Role92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

synonym
applied scientistengine driverlocomotive engineerrailroad engineertechnologist
plural
Engineers
possessive
Engineer's
pluralpossessive
Engineers'

Framework definitions

engineer1 senseview framework →
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n. 3a: a designer or builder of engines; b: a person who is trained in or follows as a profession a branch of engineering; c: a person who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; 4: a person who runs or supervises an engine or an apparatus. v. 1: to lay out, construct, or manage as an engineer.
Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
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a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
§2
the operator of a railway locomotive
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
n. 3a: a designer or builder of engines; b: a person who is trained in or follows as a profession a branch of engineering; c: a person who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; 4: a person who runs or supervises an engine or an apparatus. v. 1: to lay out, construct, or manage as an engineer.
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