| 单词 | engineer |
| 释义 | engineer (once / 145 pages) 1nv 2n An engineer is someone who possesses the knowledge or expertise to create and implement plans or build machines. Even if you're not an engineer, when you engineer you make plans and solve problems. An interesting part of the word engineer is the suffix -eer, which turns a word into one that means someone who does something indicated by the base it is affixed to — a mountaineer climbs mountains, an auctioneer presides at auctions, an engineer designs, coming from the Old French engin, which means "skill or cleverness." If you want to become an engineer, you'll have to study all kinds of mechanical systems, not just engines. WORD FAMILYengineer: engineered, engineering, engineers+/engine: engineer, enginery, engines/engineering: engineerings/enginery: engineries USAGE EXAMPLES“We’re still fighting the battle, and still trying to be good Samaritans and good neighbors to everybody,” said Shalaby, who is also a civil engineer. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Singapore's TeleRadio Engineering uses RF signals in its SkyDroner device to track and control drones and a video feed to confirm targets visually. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Who is talking about this: It is shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper applied scientist, technologist Gottlieb Daimler German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900) Rudolf Christian Karl DieselGerman engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913) Bryan DonkinEnglish engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855) Alexandre Gustave EiffelFrench engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923) Richard Buckminster FullerUnited States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983) George Washington GoethalsUnited States army officer and engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal (1858-1928) Hugo JunkersGerman aircraft engineer who designed the first all-metal airplane (1859-1935) Charles Franklin KetteringUnited States electrical engineer who made numerous automotive improvements (including the electric starter) (1876-1958) Leonardo da VinciItalian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519) John Augustus RoeblingUnited States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869) Claude Elwood ShannonUnited States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001) Sir Charles William Siemensengineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883) Elmer Ambrose SperryUnited States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930) Richard TrevithickEnglish engineer who built the first railway locomotive (1771-1833) Thomas Augustus WatsonUnited States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934) James WattScottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) Sir Henry BessemerBritish inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898) Wernher Magnus Maximilian von BraunUnited States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977) Vannevar BushUnited States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974) Father of RadioUnited States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961) Ray M. DolbyUnited States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording Oliver HeavisideEnglish physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925) Arthur Edwin KennellyUnited States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939) Guglielmo MarconiItalian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937) Reginald Joseph MitchellEnglish aeronautical engineer (1895-1937) Ernst Werner von SiemensGerman electrical engineer (1816-1892) Sir Clive Marles SinclairEnglish electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940) David Barnard SteinmanUnited States civil engineer noted for designing suspension bridges (including the George Washington Bridge) (1886-1960) Charles Proteus SteinmetzUnited States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923) Nikola TeslaUnited States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943) Elihu ThomsonUnited States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937) Sir Frank WhittleEnglish aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996) aeronautical engineer an engineer concerned with the design and construction of aircraft aerospace engineeran engineer of aircraft and space vehicles army engineer, military engineera member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work automotive engineeran engineer concerned with the design and construction of automobiles civil engineeran engineer trained to design and construct and maintain public works (roads or bridges or harbors etc.) electrical engineera person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity marine engineer, naval engineera naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines mechanical engineera person trained to design and construct machines metallurgical engineer, metallurgistan engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals mining engineeran engineer concerned with the construction and operation of mines coder, computer programmer, programmer, software engineera person who designs and writes and tests computer programs rocket engineer, rocket scientistan engineer who builds and tests rockets surveyoran engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures crackera programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things hackera programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk, hackera programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism highway engineera civil engineer who specializes in the design and construction of roads and highways linemanthe surveyor who marks positions with a range pole locater, locatora person who fixes the boundaries of land claims sappera military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) sappera military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines tribologista specialist in tribology individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 2v design as an engineer He engineered the water supply project Hyper design, plan make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form 3v plan and direct (a complex undertaking) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize choreograph plan and oversee the development and details of plan make plans for something n the operator of a railway locomotive Syn|Exp|Hyper engine driver, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer John Luther Jones United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900) manipulator, operator an agent that operates some apparatus or machine |
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