Engineering
Engineering noun - The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems.
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Synonyms for Engineering
Scheme and engineering are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scheme" instead a noun "Engineering".
Nearby Words: engineer, engineered
Scheme
Scheme noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Engineering and scheme are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Engineering" instead a noun "Scheme".
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Related pairs
- technique and engineering
- technique and scheme
- arrange and engineering
- arrange and scheme
- organization and engineering
- organization and scheme
- structure and engineering
- structure and scheme
- organize and engineering
- organize and scheme
- manipulate and engineering
- manipulate and scheme
- design and engineering
- design and scheme
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Lampshaded by the Sheriff in "Mud Days and Cornfused", who interrupts Dan's explanation of his master scheme to accuse him of engineering the Cornzu to corner the world ethanol market.
Source: Western Animation / Squidbillies -
Half-Life: The protagonist, Gordon Freeman, is revealed at the end to have been little more than a pawn of the mysterious G-Man, who appears to be engineering most of the plot as part of an inscrutable cosmic scheme.
Source: Big Brother is Employing You - BioShock 2's villain, Sophia Lamb, has a more explicitly utopian scheme in mind: using a combination of genetic engineering and psychological conditioning to create people with no sense of self-interest whatsoever...starting with her own daughter.
Source: Utopia Justifies the Means
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