Manager vs. Engineer — What's the Difference?

One who directs a business or other enterprise.

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").

One who controls resources and expenditures, as of a household.

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

One who is in charge of the business affairs of an entertainer.

One who operates an engine.

One who is in charge of the training and performance of an athlete or team.

One who skillfully or shrewdly manages an enterprise.

A student who is in charge of the equipment and records of a school or college team.

To plan, construct, or manage as an engineer.

(management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.

To alter or produce by methods of genetic engineering

The head coach.

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

(music) An administrator, for a singer or group. en

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

(software) A window or application whose purpose is to give the user the control over some aspect of the system.

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

One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.

(by extension)

A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist.

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.

A contriver; an intriguer.

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.

Someone who controls resources and expenditures

A person trained to operate an engine; an engineman.

(sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team

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);