Engineer vs. Engine — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Engineer and Engine
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Engineer
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").
Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy. Heat engines convert heat into work via various thermodynamic processes.
Engineer
One who is trained or professionally engaged in a branch of engineering.
Engine
A machine with moving parts that converts power into motion
Engine failure
The roar of a car engine
Engineer
One who operates an engine.
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Engine
A locomotive.
Engineer
One who skillfully or shrewdly manages an enterprise.
Engine
A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
Engineer
To plan, construct, or manage as an engineer.
Engine
Such a machine distinguished from an electric, spring-driven, or hydraulic motor by its use of a fuel.
Engineer
To alter or produce by methods of genetic engineering
Bacteria that are genetically engineered to produce insulin.
Engine
A mechanical appliance, instrument, or tool
Engines of war.
Engineer
To plan, manage, and bring about by skillful acts or contrivance
Engineer a business takeover.
Engineer social changes by legislation.
Engine
An agent, instrument, or means of accomplishment.
Engineer
A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
Engine
A locomotive.
Engineer
(obsolete) A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.
Engine
A fire engine.
Engineer
(by extension)
Engine
(Computers) A search engine.
Engineer
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.
Engine
To equip with an engine or engines.
Engineer
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.
Engine
A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
Engineer
A person trained to operate an engine; an engineman.
Engine
A tool; a utensil or implement.
Engineer
Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
A political engineer
Engine
A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
Engineer
A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
Engine
A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
Engineer
(transitive)
Engine
The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
Engineer
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.
Engine
A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
Engineer
(specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
Engine
(computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
A graphics engine
A physics engine
Engineer
To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
Engine
(obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
Engineer
(intransitive)
Engine
(obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
Engineer
To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
Engine
(obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
Engineer
(rare) To work as an engineer.
Engine
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
Engineer
One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
Engine
To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
Engineer
One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
Engine
To assault with an engine.
Engineer
To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
Engine
To contrive; to put into action.
Engineer
To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.
Engine
To rack; to torture.
Engineer
A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
Engine
Natural capacity; ability; skill.
A man hath sapiences three,Memory, engine, and intellect also.
Engineer
The operator of a railway locomotive
Engine
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; a machine; an agent.
You see the ways the fisherman doth takeTo catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.
Engineer
Design as an engineer;
He engineered the water supply project
Engine
Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
Engineer
Plan and direct (a complex undertaking);
He masterminded the robbery
Engine
A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
Engine
To assault with an engine.
To engine and batter our walls.
Engine
To equip with an engine; - said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
Engine
Pronounced, in this sense, .) To rack; to torture.
Engine
Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
Engine
Something used to achieve a purpose;
An engine of change
Engine
A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
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