Engineer vs. Architect — What's the Difference?

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost. The word engineer (Latin ingeniator) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to create, generate, contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").

An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose.

One who is trained or professionally engaged in a branch of engineering.

One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.

One who operates an engine.

One that plans, devises, or organizes something

One who skillfully or shrewdly manages an enterprise.

To plan, organize, and bring to fruition

To plan, construct, or manage as an engineer.

A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.

To alter or produce by methods of genetic engineering

A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.

To plan, manage, and bring about by skillful acts or contrivance

(Philippines) An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.

A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.

(transitive) To design, plan, or orchestrate.

(obsolete) A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.

A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

(by extension)

A contriver, designer, or maker.

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.

Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)

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.

A person trained to operate an engine; an engineman.

Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.

A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.

(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.

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

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

(intransitive)

To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.

(rare) To work as an engineer.

One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

The operator of a railway locomotive

Design as an engineer;

Plan and direct (a complex undertaking);