shop
84
1.5
- noun
- /ʃɑp/
- US
:
taller
- Took too much shop in high school.
- wood shop
- industrial arts shop
- art and shop
Vo tech just became tech, Tech became shop.
- Vo tech just became tech, Tech became shop.
- I I end up underneath the the training shop.
- OK, so where it comes from is this book by Matthew B Crawford and it's called Shop Class as soul Craft.
- There's a very well equipped and very clean woodworking shop and lots and lots of other facilities.
Examples
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I work with Lightning in the wood shop.
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Steve was an engineer who worked in the machine shop, and Andrea was a kindergarten teacher.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'm in the craft shop most of the day.
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Students rotated through the shops during the course of the year.
Academic text (2012) -
Country kids took shop, practical math, practical English, agriculture, auto mechanics, and home economics.
Academic text (2003) -
There's a very well equipped and very clean woodworking shop and lots and lots of other facilities.
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So we spent a lot of long hours in the shop at Stanford, bending, welding, cutting, you name it.
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In my high school, we learned how to build furniture in shop class.
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He enjoyed learning welding and carpentry during shop this semester.
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During shop, students can gain hands-on experience in various trades.
Synonyms
7
3.1
A school course where students learn hands-on skills like building things from wood or metal
5
2.6
A place where people make things like furniture from wood using tools
Idioms
- Informal
3
7.2
A clumsy or careless person who causes damage in delicate situations
- Offensive
1
7.8
A person who is clumsy and insensitive in delicate situations
- Informal
A person who thinks they are special and sometimes feels out of place
Compounds
- Specialized
12
3.7
A workshop where people use tools to cut and shape metal or hard materials
- US
7
3.1
A school course where students learn hands-on skills like building things from wood or metal
- US
4
1.3
A place where hairdressers cut and style hair and give treatments for skin and nails
- Specialized
3
3.4
The area in a factory where workers use machines to make or assemble goods
- Jargon
2
6.5
A conversation about work that uses words only people in the same job understand
A shop where people leave things to get a loan that may be sold if not paid back
- UK
An online page, like a shop website or social media, that shows products to attract customers
- Archaic
A shop in the past that sold cheap ready-made clothes often used by sailors
How Practical
24
3.5
1
3.4
- US
84
1.5
175
3.3
- Specialized
341
3.0
65
3.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shop in school is short for workshop, a place to work with your hands, so shop class is where students learn practical skills like woodworking or mechanics.