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# engineer

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

«engineer» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An engineer is a person who designs and builds machines, bridges, roads, buildings, computers or other things, using science and maths. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#m3)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x1)
- Engineers designed this tall building. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x2)
- We acted like engineers and built a paper bridge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x3)
- A software engineer writes computer programs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x4)
- The ship's engineer fixed the engine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x5)
- She wants to be an engineer when she grows up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/#x6)
- The plan was cleverly engineered. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «engineer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engineer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«engineer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/engineer.html) on Mova free.