Dictionary Entry
engineer
engineer is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering.
- 2noun
One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
- 3noun
One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
- 4transitive verb
To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
- 5transitive verb
To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.
- 6noun
a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
Synonyms
- 7noun
the operator of a railway locomotive
- 8verb
plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
"he masterminded the robbery"
- 9verb
design as an engineer
"He engineered the water supply project"
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