engine driver

(Railways) chiefly Brit a person who drives a railway locomotive; train driver

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engineer

– engine driver

1. 'engineer'

An engineer is a skilled person who uses scientific knowledge to design and construct machinery, electrical devices, or roads and bridges.

He trained as a civil engineer and worked on the M4 motorway.

...a brilliant young mining engineer.

An engineer is also a person who repairs mechanical or electrical devices.

The telephone engineer can't come until Wednesday.

In American English, a person who drives a train is also called an engineer.

An engineer pulled his freight train into a siding.

2. 'engine driver'

In British English, a person who drives a train is called an engine driver.

Every little boy has an ambition to be an engine driver.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

engine driver - the operator of a railway locomotive

locomotive engineer, railroad engineer, engineer

manipulator, operator - an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard"

Translations

strojvůdce

veturinkuljettaja

macchinista

machinist

lokförare

engine driver

n (Brit) → Lok(omotiv)führer(in) m(f)

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engine driver

n (Brit) (of train) → macchinista m

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If a poor engine driver gets drunk and sends thirty or forty people to death, nobody complains of the exposure being personal.

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His great theme was 'Warren the ENGINE driver,' whom he pressed into the service of every sentence he uttered.

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And as the day advanced and the engine drivers and stokers refused to return to London, the pressure of the flight drove the people in an ever-thickening multitude away from the stations and along the northward-running roads.

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The fire engine driver, also from Bidford, was not injured.

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"But the fire engine driver must obey the highway code like everybody else.

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