presswork
7.0
Shaping or cutting metal with a machine that forces metal into shape
- noun
- /ˈprɛsˌwɜrk/
- Specialized
:
trabajo de prensa
- Using advanced presswork, the factory produced thousands of identical metal parts each day.
Examples
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The engineer demonstrated the effectiveness of presswork in creating precise metal components for the car.
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After learning about presswork, the students practiced shaping different metals in their workshop.
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De Vinne explains this idea: "Great changes in the appearance of types are... made by different methods of presswork.
Academic text (2017) -
Types made sharp enough by the type-founder are made still sharper by feeble modern presswork (Historic 98).
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
7.4
A metal or plastic part made by pushing material into a shape in a machine
is focused only on metal and covers the whole forming process
Surface Forms
presswork singular
pressworks plural
Morphology
Etymology
Presswork comes from the word press, which means 'to push or squeeze' and is the same root as pressure. A press is a strong machine that pushes metal into a shape, so presswork is the metal parts made by that pushing.
