Crossword clues for mechanic
mechanic
- Repairer
- Wrench user
- Pit crew member
- Engine's output
- Person who works with dipsticks
- A craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
- Someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles
- He's good under a hood
- His mission is fixing transmissions
- Garage worker
- Grease monkey
- Skilled repair worker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mechanic \Me*chan"ic\, n. [F. m['e]canique mechanics. See Mechanic, a.]
The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction. [Obs.]
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A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. Also, a technician who maintains or repairs machinery; as, an auto mechanic.
An art quite lost with our mechanics.
--Sir T. Browne.
Mechanic \Me*chan"ic\ (m[-e]*k[a^]n"[i^]k), a. [F. m['e]canique, L. mechanicus, Gr. mhchaniko`s, fr. mhchanh` a machine. See Machine.]
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Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts. ``These mechanic philosophers.''
--Ray.Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.
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Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
To make a god, a hero, or a king Descend to a mechanic dialect.
--Roscommon.Sometimes he ply'd the strong, mechanic tool.
--Thomson. Base. [Obs.]
--Whitlock.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "pertaining to or involving mechanical labor" (now usually mechanical), also "having to do with tools," from Latin mechanicus, from Greek mekhanikos "full of resources, inventive, ingenious," literally "mechanical, pertaining to machines," from mekhane (see machine (n.)). Meaning "of the nature of or pertaining to machines" is from 1620s.
"manual laborer," late 14c., from Latin mechanicus, from Greek mekhanikos "an engineer," noun use of adjective meaning "full of resources, inventive, ingenious" (see mechanic (adj.)). Sense of "one who is employed in manual labor, a handicraft worker, an artisan" (chief sense through early 19c.) is attested from 1560s. Sense of "skilled workman who is concerned with making or repair of machinery" is from 1660s, but not the main sense until the rise of the automobile.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) mechanical; relating to the laws of motion in the art of constructing things 2 (context obsolete English) Of or relating to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar. 3 (context obsolete English) base n. A skilled worker capable of building or repairing machinery. A mechanic can be compared to a technician, the distinction being that the technician is stronger in theory, the mechanic stronger in hands-on experience.
WordNet
adj. resembling the action of a machine; "from blank to blank a threadless way I pushed mechanic feet"- Emily Dickenson
n. a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools [syn: machinist, shop mechanic]
someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles [syn: automobile mechanic, auto-mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A mechanic is a tradesman, craftsman, or technician who uses tools to build or repair machinery.
Mechanic may refer to:
- Mechanic, a person who uses tools to fix and maintain machinery
- Aircraft Maintenance Technician, or aircraft mechanic, a person who repairs aircraft.
- Auto mechanic, a person who repairs automobiles.
- Mechanic (name), a surname.
- Mechanic (Transformers), a character in Marvel Comics's Transformers
- Card mechanic, a card cheat who specializes in sleight-of-hand manipulation of cards
Mechanics may refer to:
- Mechanics in physics and applied mathematics, or one of its subdisciplines.
- Mechanical engineering ( Mechanician)
- Mechanics (Aristotle), an Ancient Greek treatise on machines
- Game mechanics, constructs of rules or methods designed for interaction with the game state
Usage examples of "mechanic".
One airman was injured, and two mechanics and several sentries were killed at their posts.
Nicholas Sanders, a contemporary Catholic apologist, said that the common people of that period were divided into three classes: husbandmen, shepherds and mechanics.
The biologist, the geologist and the physician prepared a reconnaissance robot, the mechanics adjusted the landing locators and searchlights and got ready a rocket satellite that would transmit a message to Earth.
What mysteries has fiction produced to rival mind bogglers like deep geological time, a boundless universe, the big bang, relativity, quantum mechanics, the double helix, natural selection, mass extinction, the language instinct, and chaos theory?
On Sunday, March 3,1991, police in Birmingham arrested the twenty-three-year-old black former Navy mechanic, who had lived in the Buena Vista Garden Apartments complex at the time of the first three murders.
Heineke and Mikulicz, and is designed to remove the mechanic obstruction in cicatricial stenoses of the pylorus, at the same time creating a new pylorus.
Laws derived from mechanics, such as the conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum, were found to be covariant with respect to Galilean transforms and afforded the mechanistic foundations of classical science.
The institute was a thoroughly modern and up-to-date facility, in keeping with the modern and up-to-date subjects taught within its walls: electricity and electronics, mechanics, plumbing, recycling and reclamation, construction, carpentry, accounting and bookkeeping, secretarial skills, data recording, computer programming and repair, cybernation maintenance, aeronautics, solar-cell construction, electrical generating, motion-picture projection, camera operation, audio recording, hydrogen-fusion operation, power broadcasting, electrical space propulsion, satellite construction and repair, telemetry, and many more.
Engine-mechanics, riggers, electricians, instrument fitters and radio mechanics swarmed all over the great four-motor aircraft.
It was a simple, geocentric, Copernican model, based on Euclidean geometry and Newtonian mechanics.
Not long before the break-ins the foreman had hired a mechanic, Geoff Watson by name, without telling Gis, and the man had remained at Schuyler H for only a fortnight and then had disappeared.
After a variety of conjectures and vague reports, each at variance with the other, and evidently deficient in the most remote connexion with the true cause of the strife, it was agreed to submit the question to the waiter, as a neutral observer, who assured us that the whole affair arose out of a trifling circumstance, originating with some mischievous boys, who, having watched two gownsmen into a cyprian temple in the neighbourhood of Saint Thomas, circulated a false report that they had carried thither the wives of two respectable mechanics.
From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes.
The soldier, the merchant, the mechanic, indulging the fervors of zeal, and guided by the illapses of the spirit, resigned himself to an inward and superior direction, and was consecrated, in a manner, by an immediate intercourse and communication with heaven.
He remembered Gerry, smeared up to the elbows with oil and ink, the very image of a hillbilly jackleg mechanic.