machinist
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4.9
- noun
- /məˈʃinɪst/
:
maquinista
- I'm a machinist.
- press machinists
- letterpress machinist
- machinists and their trade
It's a key part of every young machinist's early tool making.
- It's a key part of every young machinist's early tool making.
- You pay more for a machinist than I'll say a Carpenter.
- Or Eddie Wheeler, who was a machinist.
- And that's how that misinformation spreads about the CNC machinist thing.
- And then then I got to another job, applied for job is his apprentice, machinist apprentice.
Examples
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A hundred and eighty-seven machinists, all women.
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She was a newspaper editor and he was a union machinist.
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The machinist in there got me the layout.
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Okay, this here's Charlie Cavenaugh, the best machinist I got.
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There's some very good training programs out there for machinists.
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Are you a welder or a machinist or a pipe fitter?
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He worked as a machinist at Flandry's until they went belly.
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To develop things that quickly, the group will have to rely on outside machinists to construct the machines from open-source plans.
Academic text (2011) -
George Larden began working as a letterpress machinist at the Gov in 1932.
Academic text (2016) -
The skilled machinist repaired the broken lathe in the workshop.
Synonyms
184
3.7
A trained person who installs and fixes machines or equipment
55
4.1
A skilled worker who makes things by hand
39
2.8
A person who makes useful or beautiful things by hand and is very skilled
4
3.7
A person who shapes hot metal by hammering it
2
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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3.8
A person who makes or fixes tools as a job
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3.6
A person who does skilled physical work like an electrician or carpenter
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4.2
A person who makes or repairs metal items by shaping and joining them
A worker in a workshop who repairs machines
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Machinist comes from the word machine, which means a 'device', plus the ending -ist, which means a 'person who works with something'. So, a machinist is literally a person who works with machines, often making and operating exact parts in a workshop or factory.