engineering

Speech parts

1. engineering - Noun

2. engineering - Verb

Meaning

of Engineer

Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

study field subject technology room discipline

Hyponyms

computer science information technology computing bionics it nanotechnology

Phrases with the word

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Examples

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. Ron Paul

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. H. G. Wells

Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. Elon Musk

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world. Linus Pauling

Close letter words and terms

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