noun
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a person who operates machines to cut or process materials
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a maker or repairer of machines
Etymology
Origin of machinist
Vocabulary lists containing machinist
Example Sentences
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That included a net addition of 3,500 Machinist jobs.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024
This is not unprecedented; one can easily connect Christian Bale's work in "Equilibrium" and "The Machinist" to his eventual assumption of Batman's mantle.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2023
Bale, who previously dropped to 120 pounds for "The Machinist" in 2004 and put on 30 pounds of muscle for "Batman Begins" a year later, said playing Cheney was "lovely ... it seemed almost impossible."
From Fox News • Feb. 11, 2019
Wade had written home in September 1941 that he had just taken promotion tests from Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class to Chief Aviation Machinist Mate.
From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2018
In the figures from 308 to 328 inclusive are given three examples in engine work, all these drawings being from The American Machinist.
From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Rose, Joshua
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