How to pronounce“engineer”in English
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A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
“For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]”
A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.
“This is hard welcome, but it was not you, / At whom the fatal enginer did ayme, / My breaſt the levell was, though you the marke, / In which conſpiracie anſwere me Duke, / Is not thy ſoule as guiltie as the Earles?”
To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
“In an interesting animal study, scientists engineered mice with a specific gene defect that caused memory and learning problems.”
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