noun
- A worker who holds or is invested with an office.
- synonyms: official
Functionary and Engineer
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
- synonyms: applied scientist, technologist
- The operator of a railway locomotive.
- synonyms: locomotive engineer, railroad engineer, engine driver
verb
- Design as an engineer.
- usage: "He engineered the water supply project"
- Plan and direct (a complex undertaking. )
- usage: "he masterminded the robbery"
- synonyms: mastermind, direct, organize, organise, orchestrate
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
- (n.) One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
- (n.) One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
- (n.) A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
- (v.t.) To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary