aeronautical engineer
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6.1
- noun
- /ˌɛəroʊˈnɔːtɪkəl ˌɛnˈdʒɪnɪr/
- Specialized
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ingeniero aeronáutico
- An aeronautical engineer designs aircraft to ensure they are safe and efficient.
- working as an aeronautical engineer
- aeronautical engineers design
- become an aeronautical engineer
Raptor is this constant fight between the EE guys and the aeronautical engineers.
- Raptor is this constant fight between the EE guys and the aeronautical engineers.
Examples
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By the late 1930s, helicopters attracted the attention of another celebrated aeronautical engineer.
Academic text (2003) -
Aeronautical engineers design aircraft.
Blog text (31) -
My father was an aeronautical engineer.
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What kind of aeronautical engineer are you?
Blog text (34) -
How do you think this might affect the way that aeronautical engineers design airplanes?
Academic text (2007) -
Can the students speak to airline professionals or aeronautical engineers to learn about passenger-loading processes?
Academic text (2007) -
Lindbergh had aeronautical engineers working with him, as Ryan Air custom-designed and built The Spirit of St. Louis.
Academic text (2010) -
An aeronautical engineer can explain why a plane flies, but you don’t want one flying a plane,” says Lipo.
Blog text (21) -
You've already met, I think, Peter Cahill, an aeronautical engineer at DARPA, a pioneer in stealth technology...
Fiction book (1996) -
I'm a lowly aeronautical engineer who is fully able to comprehend, replicate, and even produce the math in climate papers; IOW, I don't need people to think for me.
Blog text (33)
Synonyms
729
3.2
A person who designs, builds and fixes machines or structures
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5.5
A person who designs and tests aircraft and spacecraft
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is fully compositional: 'aeronautical' means relating to aircraft and 'engineer' means a person who designs or builds systems, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer 'a person who designs or works on aircraft'. This follows standard adjective+noun composition common across languages and contains no idiomatic shift, making it immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
The noun aeronautical engineer comes from two parts: aero meaning 'air' and nautical meaning 'sail', so picture someone who 'sails the air' and works on flying machines. That's why the phrase means 'a person who designs, builds, and looks after airplanes and other flying machines'.