engineer vs support

engineer

verb
  • To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use. 

  • To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism). 

  • To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme. 

  • To work as an engineer. 

  • To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle. 

noun
  • A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver. 

  • 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. 

  • A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer. 

  • A person who drives or operates a fire engine. 

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

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

  • 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. 

  • A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship. 

support

verb
  • To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for. 

  • To keep from falling. 

  • To help, particularly financially. 

  • To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid. 

  • To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to. 

  • To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain. 

  • To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold. 

  • To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for. 

  • To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain. 

noun
  • An actor playing a subordinate part with a star. 

  • Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold. 

  • Evidence. 

  • Something which supports. 

  • An accompaniment in music. 

  • Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature. 

  • Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed. 

  • Financial or other help. 

  • A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero). 

  • in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set. 

How often have the words engineer and support occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )