toolmaker
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈtuːlˌmeɪkər/
:
fabricante de herramientas
- After years of training, she finally became a qualified toolmaker in a renowned workshop.
- trained as a toolmaker
Examples
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I am a Machinist, Toolmaker, Industrial Millwright, Marine Mechanic, and fished the Bering Sea for 6 years.
Blog text (6) -
As a talented toolmaker, he was responsible for designing custom tools for carpenters.
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He was a toolmaker for her people.
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I graduated from a college of engineering in the city of Nagano and went to work for a precision toolmaker in the area.
Fiction book (1999) -
The process helps the toolmaker develop its products faster than it can with traditional CNC-produced prototypes.
Academic text (2011) -
But it is also an opportunity for engineering toolmakers to come up with new products of their own that make the job at hand go more smoothly.
Academic text (2007) -
Next, a toolmaker (who is not always on call in a manufacturing plant) has to adjust the fixture; this is a time-consuming process.
Academic text (1995) -
I soon saw that the walls and floors of the test pits contained not only a profusion of stone flakes and the cores from which the early toolmakers had struck them, but also fossil animal bones, some of them betraying cut marks.
Academic text (1994) -
Over the course of Claude's mechanical development, he had given him tools from the chapel room and ordered others from abroad: rough files from a foundry town in Germany, a set of punches from Paris, and two exquisite soldering dishes from a toolmaker whose name is no longer legible.
Fiction book (1992) -
The skilled toolmaker created a variety of specialized equipment for the factory.
Synonyms
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4.1
A skilled worker who makes things by hand
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4.8
A person who makes and fixes metal objects by heating and hammering them into shape
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2.8
A person who makes useful or beautiful things by hand and is very skilled
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3.7
A person who makes useful or decorative things by hand
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3.5
A person who makes things from metal, often by hammering or welding
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3.2
A skilled worker who does building or repair work
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4.2
A person who makes or repairs metal items by shaping and joining them
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9.9
A person who makes things well by hand
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3.6
A person who does skilled physical work like an electrician or carpenter
A person who makes or repairs things from iron
A person who makes and fixes metal molds used to shape or cut parts
A person who makes useful or decorative things by hand
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Toolmaker is a simple combination of tool and maker, literally 'tool' + 'maker', and it means a person who makes or repairs tools as a job. So a toolmaker is someone who builds or fixes the tools other people use.