Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)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.

    design as an engineer

  2. (specifically, transitive)To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).

  3. (transitive)To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.

  4. (intransitive)To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.

  5. (intransitive, rare)To work as an engineer.

Examples

326 sentences
  1. I want to be an engineer.

    Я хочу бути інженером.

    ruЯ хочу стать инженером.

    deIch will Ingenieur werden.

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  2. I've decided to become an engineer.

    Я вирішив стати інженером.

    ruЯ решил стать инженером.

    deIch habe beschlossen, Ingenieur zu werden.

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  3. I'm going to be an engineer.

    Я буду інженером.

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  4. Tom is an engineer and so is Mary.

    Том інженер, і Мері також.

    ruТом - инженер, и Мэри тоже.

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  5. I want to become an engineer.

    Я хочу стати інженером.

    ruЯ хочу стать инженером.

    deIch will Ingenieur werden.

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

The noun is derived from:

The noun is derived from:

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Forms

engineers, engineering, engineered, engineered
Base formengineer · to engineer
3rd person singularengineers
Present participleengineering
Past simpleengineered
Past participleengineered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyengineer
he, she, itengineers

Past simpleLesson

all personsengineered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave engineered
he, she, ithas engineered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill engineer

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • an an engineer
  • an electrical engineer
  • electrical engineer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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