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# engineer

«engineer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who designs and builds machines, bridges, roads…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an engineer, engineers); verb (engineer, engineers, engineered, engineering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An engineer is a person who designs and builds machines, bridges, roads, buildings, computers or other things, using science and maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#m1)

2) An engineer is a person who fixes or looks after engines and machines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#m2)

3) To engineer means to design and build something, or to arrange something cleverly, sometimes secretly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In STEM lessons, pupils act like engineers: they design, test and improve bridges, towers and machines. In everyday life, engineers make roads, phones, cars and water systems. Phrases: civil engineer, software engineer, engineering, design engineer.

### examples

- My mum is an engineer who builds bridges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x1)
- Engineers designed this tall building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x2)
- We acted like engineers and built a paper bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x3)
- A software engineer writes computer programs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x4)
- The ship's engineer fixed the engine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x5)
- She wants to be an engineer when she grows up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x6)
- The plan was cleverly engineered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x7)
- For the gardener's boy meant, as soon as he was grown up, to be a general and a poet and a Prime Minister and an admiral and a civil engineer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x8)

### note

Countable; use an: an engineer. Subject: engineering. Stress on the last part: en-gi-NEER. Engineers can be anyone, girls and boys alike; maths and science help.

### In the corpora

- [An architect designs a building and works with engineers; builders, electricians, plumbers and many others build it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/15/)
- ["Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/24/)
- ["Domestic engineer" is a joking name for a housewife, househusband or homemaker.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/5/)
- [Romans were great engineers, building aqueducts for water, arches, domes and concrete.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/4/)
- [The Mongols used Chinese and Persian engineers to besiege walled cities, and cities that resisted were often destroyed and many people died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «engineer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.