metalwork
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈmɛtəlˌwɜrk/
:
metalistería
- After attending a course on metalwork, he was able to create beautiful furniture from recycled metal.
Examples
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Would you like to see what I made in metalwork?
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I mostly enrolled for fun, but I quickly saw that I had a natural talent for metalwork, even above many of the art majors in class with me.
Blog text (4) -
Girls study needlework and cookery; boys study metalwork and wood!
Fiction book (2000) -
In the late 1990s, Wood decided to do some metalwork research by re-creating an ancient kind of furnace.
Academic text (2008) -
Courses on everything from metalwork to astronomy are available at Pennsic University, and special events are set aside for children to participate in as well.
Blog text (17) -
The armory rang with the sounds of metalwork and carpentry.
Fiction book (1992) -
Ryan runs CarbonForm Design, and creates new techniques for metalwork, like etching photographs and similar glorious things.
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He's a Houston-based metalwork contractor who holds degrees in economics and political science from Sarajevo University.
Academic text (2006) -
Throughout the book are useful sidebars that explain metalwork techniques and how elements like conchos, bezels, and bolo tips are fabricated.
Academic text (2010) -
In the workshop, she spent hours perfecting her skills in metalwork by crafting intricate sculptures.
Synonyms
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4.5
A craft of shaping metal by heating and hitting it by hand to make or fix things
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3.5
Work that shapes metal into useful or decorative objects with tools
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5.8
A craft of making and fixing metal things by heating and hitting them
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Metalwork joins metal and work in the same way as woodwork or needlework, so it can mean the activity of shaping and joining metal. That is why metalwork also means the skill or craft of making things 'out of metal'.