guide implies intimate knowledge of the way and of all its difficulties and dangers.
guided the scouts through the cave
lead implies showing the way and often keeping those that follow under control and in order.
led his team to victory
steer implies an ability to keep to a course and stresses the capacity of maneuvering correctly.
steered the ship through a narrow channel
pilot suggests guidance over a dangerous or complicated course.
piloted the bill through the Senate
engineer implies finding ways to avoid or overcome difficulties in achieving an end or carrying out a plan.
engineered his son's election to the governorship
Example Sentences
Noun Design engineers are working on ways to make the cars run more efficiently. The engineer stopped the train. Army engineers were called in to construct the canal. Verb The rebels engineered a successful attack. the mayor engineered an agreement to have a major league team play in our city
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The sound engineer ultimately turned down the music to an acceptable volume, police said. Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022 Our chief technical officer and the main engineer who built the app, Graham Wood, was very intense about security and privacy. Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 6 Sep. 2022 The structure also would have subterranean parking for tactical response vehicles, sensitive equipment and vehicle evidence, Hart said in an Aug. 3 letter to the city engineer. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022 The city engineer said in November that staff shortages were so severe that the city would have to shut down one of its plants if one more operator left. Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022 That change will help give teams handling the rocket an earlier indication that the engines are prepared, said John Blevins, the SLS chief engineer. Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022 Pagani’s out-of-the-box thinking led the former Lamborghini engineer to jump ship and create his own brand, and his latest collaboration supports what could be called the ultimate expression of high-quality image making. Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2022 But Whelton, the environmental engineer, said governments still don’t invest enough in the human aspects of disaster management, such as training for utility managers and technical assistance for systems in turmoil. Brady Dennis And Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2022 The engineer continues to insist that the program is sentient. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
Verb
Paduchik is a longtime Ohio GOP political operative, including Trump’s 2016 campaign in Ohio and afterward, working closely afterward with Trump to engineer the ouster of Matt Borges, a former state party chairman aligned with ex-Gov. Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022 But its prospects dimmed after failing to engineer an initial public offering and corporate mismanagement, resulting in the layoffs of thousands of workers. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2022 Instead, on the day of the renovation, the friend or family member had to engineer an excuse to get the family away from their home for 12 hours. Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022 Of course, the focus is not purely on seafood, and The Idle Rocks works with many local fishermen, farmers and independent suppliers to engineer meat and vegetarian dishes of the same quality. Lela London, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022 Synthetic cells, though, have far simpler genomes that are much easier to engineer. Kira Sampson, STAT, 28 July 2022 Bennett gets little or no credit for helping engineer the Bulldogs’ national championship run a season ago, but the undersized former walk-on has done little more than win during his time as Georgia’s starter. Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 21 July 2022 Biden and Democrats had lofty ambitions to transform the economy and social-safety net, and to engineer the most significant climate provisions in U.S. history. Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 15 July 2022 Earlier this year, researchers at University College London quietly began a clinical trial using base editors to engineer immune cell therapies for leukemia — likely the first time base editors were used as part of any experimental medicine. Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English engineour, from Anglo-French, from enginer to devise, construct, from engin