machine shop

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noun

a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.

Origin of machine shop

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Words Nearby machine shop

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How to use machine shop in a sentence

When I pulled off my bunny suit, I visited the machine shop, where huge chunks of glass were being carved for the reticle.
Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law | Clive Thompson | October 27, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
There, an old guy with a machine shop had a job for Don whenever he showed.
The Ballad of Johnny France | Richard Ben Cramer | January 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the grinding, squealing, squeaking, buzzing machine shop the men were not mixed with women.
Tramping on Life | Harry Kemp
But with the wife of the farmer, the woman's laboratory-machine-shop-studio is not a little room by itself.
The American Country Girl | Martha Foote Crow
His father spoke of sending him back to a machine-shop or some sort; I suppose he meant when the poor thing gets better.
The Turmoil | Booth Tarkington

Father put him in the machine-shop over at the Pump Works—best thing in the world for him—and he was just plain no account.
The Turmoil | Booth Tarkington
Some genius in the machine shop altered a matchlock musket to flintlock and showed the local gunsmiths how to do it.
Space Viking | Henry Beam Piper

British Dictionary definitions for machine shop

machine shop

noun

a workshop in which machine tools are operated

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