Crossword clues for machinist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Machinist \Ma*chin"ist\, n. [Cf. F. machiniste.]
A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
One skilled in the use of machine tools.
A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, "engineer, mechanical inventor," a hybrid from machine (n.) + -ist. Meaning "machine operator" is attested from 1879.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines. 2 One skilled in the use of machine tools. 3 A person who operates machinery. 4 A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
WordNet
n. a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools [syn: mechanic, shop mechanic]
Wikipedia
A machinist is a person who uses machine tools to make or modify parts, primarily metal parts. This process of machining is accomplished by using machine tools to cut away excess material much as a woodcarver cuts away excess wood to produce his work. In addition to metal, the parts may be made of many other kinds of materials, such as plastic or wood products. The goal of these cutting operations is to produce a part that conforms to a set of specifications, or tolerances, usually in the form of engineering drawings commonly known as blueprints.
Usage examples of "machinist".
Stooped, he strode stiffly to the machine shop and inquired of the machinist when the buzz saw and lathe were planning to take a fairly protracted intermission, because he, the ballet pianist and former concert pianist, wished to practice, very softly, some thing complicated, a so-called adagio.
He also learned the machinist and lithography trades, yet never gave up on his dream of practicing medicine.
And this for half an hour until the machinist cautiously calls him back: time to cut panels for prefabricated Navy barracks.
The single finest tellurium in existence was built by the New England machinist, astronomer, and misanthrope, Benjamin Dee, in 1816.
Every now and then, bringing with him a gust of resinous smell, a white-clad machinist will come in with a basketful of crude, unwrought little images, and will turn them out upon the table from which we carvers select them.
The men of Beatus, whatever else might be said of them and their planet, were technicians and machinists.
Later, after two trade union officials had arrived at the Bethnal Green factory, Misses Mavis Percy, the chargehand of the first-floor workshop of machinists and seamstresses, came to see Tommy.
I got a double-sized research crew going on light bulbs: a glassblower, a machinist, and four apprentices.
How reliable a memorizer of atomic information was David Greenglass, an ordinary-level machinist, not a scientist, who bad taken six courses at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute and flunked five of them?
Many high school and university students yearned for the voyage, and every trade in the working class developed a few applicants, the machinists, electricians, and engineers being especially strong on the trip.
Maine in February led to excited calls for war in the press, the monthly journal of the International Association of Machinists agreed it was a terrible disaster, but it noted that the deaths of workers in industrial accidents drew no such national clamor.
Koku, the giant, and several of the machinists, who knew how to operate the big machine, were to go with it, the note said.
Some of these were machinists who had worked for him, or his father, on previous occasions, and, when tasks were few, had been dismissed, to go to other shops.
Kurdy, naming one of the most efficient of the new machinists Tom had hired during the rush.
The off-world metallurgists and geologists had to cooperate and coordinate with the miners, smelters, and machinists of Kingdom.