Mechanical engineering has evolved from the practice by the mechanic of an art based largely on trial and error to the application by the professional engineer of the scientific method in research, design, and production.
He has described himself as a "mechanic of the mind".
Like Hitchcock, Verdi was a gripping storyteller, a master mechanic of the wheels of fate.
Games are primarily about a connection between the player, the game world, and the central mechanic of the game.
"That jives really well with the nudity idea and also the mechanic of the show," she adds.
"She was the mechanic" of the speakership campaign, recalled Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell, Jr., the Manhattan Democratic leader at the time.
She is in the third year of her union apprenticeship, with one more to go before she is certified as a full-fledged "mechanic" of her trade.
And somehow, by the wholly unsporting mechanic of not predicting a single draw and backing the probable favourite in every case, I found myself top of the league.
A top veteran of two mayors, he is an incisive mechanic of government, with ideas and shards of ideas all but falling out of his pockets.
The game's battles, a core mechanic of the Pokémon franchise, are separated in Go between battles with wild Pokémon, and those against area Gym Leaders.
The inverse mechanic of Time's Arrow is maybe only the most extreme instance in his work of cause and effect being shot.
