engineer vs typewriter

engineer

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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

typewriter

noun
  • A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter. 

  • A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper. 

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