engineer
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- n a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
- n the operator of a railway locomotive
- v design as an engineer
He engineered the water supply project - v plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- On the middeck below were Ellison Onizuka, an aerospace engineer; Gregory Jarvis, an electrical engineer; and McAuliffe.
- Trained as a civil engineer, linguist, cultural anthropologist and Presbyterian minister, he describes himself as a "Christian social engineer.
- A scarcity of petroleum engineers means hard-to-get crude is increasingly difficult to extract and even high salaries will not solve the problem overnight.