English Dictionary

engineer

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə/

名詞

未分類 比喩的用法 廃用 広義 軽蔑的 頻度副詞

A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works. / (obsolete) A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.

日本語の意味

攻撃や防御のための軍事施設やその他の工学的工作物の設計・建設を担当する兵士（工兵） / (旧い用法) 武器の操作を担当する兵士、すなわち砲兵や銃手

During the siege, the engineer directed the construction of earthworks to protect the soldiers.

包囲戦の間、工兵は兵士たちを守る土塁の築造を指揮した。

意味（1）

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

For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yeard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […] For it's amusing to have the engineer / Hoisted into the sky with his own explosive, and if I'm lucky / I will dig one yard below their mines, / And blow them towards the Moon: […]

意味（2）

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

This is hard welcome, but it was not you, / At whom the fatal enginer did ayme, / My breaſt the levell was, though you the marke, / In which conſpiracie anſwere me Duke, / Is not thy ſoule as guiltie as the Earles?

意味（3）

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.

[T]o an Enginer alſo, vvho promiſed to bring into the Capitoll huge Columnes vvith ſmall charges, hee gave for his deviſe no meane revvard; and releaſed him his labour in performing that vvorke, ſaying vvithall by vvay of preface, That he ſhould ſuffer him to feed the poore commons.

意味（4）

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.

Macanopoietico, an inginer, an engine-maker.

意味（5）

A person trained to operate an engine; an engineman.

意味（6）

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

a political engineer

意味（7）

(often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.

But the trimme ſilke-worme I looked for (as it were in a proper contempt of common fineneſſe) prooveth but a ſilly glow-woorme, and the dreadfull enginer of phraſes, in steede of thunderboltes, ſhooteth nothing but dogboltes and catboltes, and the homelieſt boltes of rude folly: […]

engineers （ plural ）