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machinist

[ muh-shee-nist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.
a person who makes or repairs machines.
U.S. Navy. a warrant officer whose duty is to assist the engineering officer in the engine room.

machinist

/ məˈʃiːnɪst /

First recorded in 1700–10; machine + -ist

Kidron Peterson, a machinist running in the race, said in a candidate forum in May, “From my own research, I do not believe it was a fair election.”

Using his machinist background, he tweaked the chair to fit.

She’s now a full-fledged machinist working full-time in the high-volume Swiss machining department.

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.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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