Engineer

What “Engineer” means

Noun

1. A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
2. A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.
3. A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
4. Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
5. A person trained to operate an engine.

Verb

1. 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.
2. To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
3. To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
4. To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
5. To work as an engineer.

Where the word comes from

The noun is derived from: * Middle English enginour (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.; machine designer”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman enginour, engigneour [and other forms], and Middle French and Old French engigneor, engigneour, engignier (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence; architect; carpenter; craftsman; designer; planner; one who deceives or schemes”) (modern French ingénieur), from engin (“contraption, device; machine; invention; creativity, ingenuity; intelligence; deception, ruse, trickery”) + -eor, -or (suffix forming agent nouns); engin is derived from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature; intelligence, natural capacity; ability, skill, talent; (Medieval Latin) engine; machine”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + gignere (the present active infin

Business name ideas with “Engineer”

Industries where “Engineer” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Engineering Firm
• Engineering Services