Layman vs Engineer - What's the difference?
layman | engineer |
layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy
by analogy, someone who is not a professional in a given field
a common person
a person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject
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a generally ignorant person
lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order
A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering.
A person who operates an engine (such as a locomotive).
To design, construct or manage something as an engineer.
To alter or construct something by means of genetic engineering.
To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.
As nouns the difference between layman and engineer
is that layman is layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy while engineer is a person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering.As a verb engineer is
to design, construct or manage something as an engineer.layman
English
(wikipedia layman)Noun
(laymen)- Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman .
- Let me explain it to you in layman's terms.
- should he be held to be just a layman , or does he have some art?