Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The technical design and construction of public works (buildings, roads, harbors, public greens ...) and/or technically equivalent private (usually corporate) ones
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. See under Engineering.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction of such public works as dams or bridges
Etymologies
- civil (from Latin civilis, from cives 'citizen' + -ilis '-il(ian)') + the present participle of to engineer (Wiktionary)
Examples
“BATIER: During October and November of 1973, I started interviewing Bangkok civil engineering firms.”
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“Five years later, by the unhesitating display of the most reckless valor, he had won promotion from first lieutenant to brevet major during the Mexican War; but as he found army life unstimulating in time of peace he had resigned in February 1849, had taught mathematics for five years at Washington College, and then had become professor of mathematics and civil engineering at Davidson College, North Carolina.”
“On graduating he was appointed to the Ordnance Corps, and served in that department at various arsenals and ordnance depots throughout the country till early in 1861, when he resigned to accept a professorship of mathematics and civil engineering at the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘civil engineering’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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Engineering In All Its Forms
Macroengineering, exploratory engineering and friends.
protoengineering, astroengineering, megaengineering, macroengineering, macro-engineering, bioengineering, exploratory engin..., megascale enginee..., nanoengineering, picoengineering, molecular enginee..., climate engineering and 11 more...
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Surveying
an attempt to subdivide your life
theodolite, gun, instrument, azimuth, bearing, angle, chainman, crew chief, minor partition, control, backsight, d.i. and 77 more...
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