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machinist
/ məˈʃiːnɪst /
noun
- a person who operates machines to cut or process materials
- a maker or repairer of machines
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Word History and Origins
Origin of machinist1
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Example Sentences
An elderly machinist finds himself unexpectedly wrapped up in the scandal.
Coburn, the more outgoing of the two, is the face of DAP but by trade is a machinist from Nevada.
At seventeen he was transferred to the roundhouse; at nineteen he apprenticed himself to the machinist trade.
The eight-hour movement drew its inspiration from an economic theory advanced by a self-taught Boston machinist, Ira Steward.
The machinist easily occupies a leading place in the multitude of trades and occupations.
The hack saw is one of the most difficult tools for the machinist to handle, for the following reasons:p.
The machinist can utilize this property by understanding that velocity enables a soft materialp.
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