machinist
pronunciation
How to pronounce machinist in British English:
UK [məˈʃi:nɪst]
How to pronounce machinist in American English:
US [məˈʃinɪst]
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- Noun:
- a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
Word Origin
- machinist (n.)
- 1706, "engineer, mechanical inventor," a hybrid from machine (n.) + -ist. Meaning "machine operator" is attested from 1879.
Example
- 1. Steve jobs was a college dropout . He was adopted by a machinist and his wife , an accountant .
- 2. Even so , she and her husband , who still has work as a machinist , were sinking into debt .
- 3. I 'm a sucker for tales of the self-made , among them bill clinton , the boy from hope , ark.who grew up to be president ; steve jobs the adopted son of a machinist ; and others whose stories I 've told in this space .
- 4. 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 .
- 5. You may be thinking that these jobs are rapidly disappearing , however they are not , " he writes , noting one machinist shop that was on a nationwide search for enough machinists to keep up with his orders .