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A machinist is someone who makes or repairs machines, especially in a factory or workshop. Example: John works as a machinist at the local automobile manufacturing plant. He is responsible for assembling and maintaining the machines that produce car parts.
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machinist
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A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
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But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
Suryakant took a job as an unskilled labourer and Jayaben as a sewing machinist in a Harlesden sweatshop.
Chuck Griffith, a machinist, growled disagreement: a president who flouts Congress is "a dictator .After Mr Obama's speech, several expressed happy surprise.
Dr Seaborg eased the tension by observing that he, too, would have been a machinist, had he had the talent for it.His great talent was for science.
After any adjustments, a final plastic copy can either be used by a machinist to make an exact copy from metal, or the model's numerical data can be fed directly into a computer-controlled milling machine.
His father was a machinist.
Furthermore, after the production machine has been set up by a skilled worker or machinist, a less skilled operator also can produce parts accurately and rapidly.
July 16, 1704 Bury, England c. 1780 France John Kay, (born July 16 , 1704 near Bury, Lancashire, England died c. 1780, France) English machinist and engineer, inventor of the flying shuttle, which was an important step toward automatic weaving.
There are two main types of machinist squares: the precision steel square, which resembles the try square in the Figure but is not graduated, and the combination square set.
Charles Taylor, a machinist whom the brothers employed in their bicycle shop, produced a four-cylinder engine with a cast aluminum block that produced roughly 12.5 horsepower at a total weight of some 200 pounds (90 kg), including fuel and coolant.
With sight restored in 1875, he was apprenticed to learn the trades of patternmaker and machinist at the Enterprise Hydraulic Works in Philadelphia.
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