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machinist
/məˈʃinəst/
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What does machinist mean?
noun
- A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines.
- A person skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.
- A person who operates machinery.
More meanings (1)
noun
- A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
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IPA pronunciation
/məˈʃinəst/
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The machinist who ``steals'' his trade profits greatly by his mistakes, and the new salesman never forgets some of his most flagrant errors.
George had found constant occupation in the shop of a worthy machinist, where he had been earning a competent support for his family, which, in the mean time, had been increased by the addition of another daughter.
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Since tools have been so admirably perfected, a machinist is simply a man who knows how to handle a file or a plane: as for mechanics, that is the business of engineers and foremen.
A land surveyor, who was also an experienced lumberman, sawyer, and machinist, a good mathematician, and an accurate observer, has repeatedly told me that he had very often "timed" sawmills, and before the difference in favor of night-work above thirty per cent.
The man was a machinist in the employ of the East River Lead Co., and had charge of a machine which converted molten lead into wire.