"lathe" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It refers to the metalworking tool used to shape material, such as metal and wood, by spinning it while using a cutting tool. For example: "The machinist used a lathe to craft a perfect cylinder out of metal."
His college offered to train him as a piano tuner, a lathe operator or a Braille shorthand typist.
One, for a tiny motor, was solved quickly, though conventionally, using a toothpick, a lathe and a microscope.
Apart from the 14 or so countries where the trusty Soviet-designed rifle is made under licence, there is a makeshift factory in north-west Pakistan that uses an ancient lathe, of British empire vintage, to produce a pirated, but perfectly functional, version of the gun.
It is also more worrying than many economists and politicians have been prepared to admit.The lathe of heavenEconomists take the relationship between innovation and higher living standards for granted in part because they believe history justifies such a view.
A peasant's son and a teenage lathe operator, he was talent-spotted by a communist regime which, installed by Soviet military force, was hungry for brain power.
"When they start to ask how to calculate the speed of the lathe and the depth of the cut, we pull them straight into a classroom so we don't miss the chance".Improving apprenticeships is a fine idea.
At 14 he became a labourer and lathe-operator, as well as a serial lover of the local girls.His father was illiterate, unable to make sense of the "mystifying jungle" of the world.
It is to shame Mr Chávez by drawing a clear, public line in favour of democracy the system that allowed a poor lathe-operator to come to power and change Brazil.
FOUR years ago, the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former lathe-operator and trade-union leader, as president of the world's fourth-biggest democracy aroused the fears of some investors and the hopes of many poor Brazilians.
The production of large quantities of goods at low cost through the use of standardized parts and extensive division of labour was made possible by the development of machine tools (lathe-like machines for shaping metals) in the 19th century.
The outside caliper has inwardly curved legs that measure the diameters of solids created by rotating tools, such as lathe-turned objects; the inside caliper has outwardly curved legs for measuring bores.
