drawing machine
- noun
- Specialized
:
máquina de estirado
- To produce thin wires, the workshop relied on advanced drawing machines to shape the metal accurately.
Examples
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The technology to create them was handed down through generations of wire-drawing machines.
Academic text (2012) -
The factory installed a new drawing machine to increase wire production efficiency.
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Engineers designed a high-speed drawing machine that can create metal rods at an impressive rate.
Synonyms
A machine that pulls metal through a shaped hole to make it thinner or change its shape
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Morphology
The compound is a straightforward combination of 'draw' (to pull/elongate metal) and 'machine' (a powered device), so its meaning 'a machine that draws/pulls metal' is directly inferable from the constituents. The participial modifier pattern (verb+ing + noun) is a regular, cross-linguistically common formation, making this term transparently interpretable by a B1 learner who knows both words, even if the concept is somewhat technical.
Etymology
Drawing machine comes from the idea of drawing meaning to pull or stretch metal rather than to make a picture. A drawing machine literally 'pulls' metal through a small hole to make long thin 'wire', so the name explains its present meaning.