Machinist
noun
A person who operates and maintains machinery in an industrial setting.
Tom works as a machinist in a car manufacturing factory.
Often appears as...
- machinist tools
- machinist skills
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Technical
noun
A person who makes parts, pieces or objects using machines, especially metal.
The machinist carefully shaped the piece of metal into a beautiful ornamental design.
Often appears as...
- precision machinist
- journeyman machinist
noun
An actor or follower of the philosophy of La Mettrie, who held that the soul is a function of the body which is a machine.
Some ancient philosophers were machinists, believing the human body operates like a machine.
Often appears as...
- machinist philosophy
- machinist perspective
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Academic
noun
A person who operates and maintains machinery in an industrial setting.
Tom works as a machinist in a car manufacturing factory.
Often appears as...
- machinist tools
- machinist skills
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person who makes parts, pieces or objects using machines, especially metal.
The machinist carefully shaped the piece of metal into a beautiful ornamental design.
Often appears as...
- precision machinist
- journeyman machinist
noun
An actor or follower of the philosophy of La Mettrie, who held that the soul is a function of the body which is a machine.
Some ancient philosophers were machinists, believing the human body operates like a machine.
Often appears as...
- machinist philosophy
- machinist perspective
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Workplace Specific
Used mainly for jobs in industries where heavy machinery is used.
He was the best machinist on the factory floor.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Operation
Involves maintaining machines, not just operating them.
The machinist is also responsible for regular machine maintenance.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Level
Connotes a high level of skill and specialist training.
After years of training, she became a licensed machinist.
Pro Tip 1/3Workplace Specific
Used mainly for jobs in industries where heavy machinery is used.
He was the best machinist on the factory floor.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Operation
Involves maintaining machines, not just operating them.
The machinist is also responsible for regular machine maintenance.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Level
Connotes a high level of skill and specialist training.
After years of training, she became a licensed machinist.
Pro Tip 1/3Workplace Specific
Used mainly for jobs in industries where heavy machinery is used.
He was the best machinist on the factory floor.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Operation
Involves maintaining machines, not just operating them.
The machinist is also responsible for regular machine maintenance.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Level
Connotes a high level of skill and specialist training.
After years of training, she became a licensed machinist.
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He Risked Death as First...
trained in mechanical arts and as a mechanic and a machinist his forte was steam engines he knew had a tear apart steam engines rebuild him out of nothing most the people who ran into along the way basically popped his blooming real fast and said you're gonna die because
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Facilitating research on...
traditional government funding can't fund it it's very difficult so many diseases what we've created is an online platform similar to Kickstarter we're friends and families can give and we can raise funds from the bottom love and a grassroots machinist commitment in a
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He Risked Death as First...
trained in mechanical arts and as a mechanic and a machinist his forte was steam engines he knew had a tear apart steam engines rebuild him out of nothing most the people who ran into along the way basically popped his blooming real fast and said you're gonna die because
Video examples
Facilitating research on...
traditional government funding can't fund it it's very difficult so many diseases what we've created is an online platform similar to Kickstarter we're friends and families can give and we can raise funds from the bottom love and a grassroots machinist commitment in a
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Kevin Nealon
American Comedian
My adrenaline is definitely going, but it's mostly my real, laid-back persona carrying over on stage. When I first started, I was nervous, I'd be really high energy, and I'd be sweating. Now it's just my job. It's like a machinist who goes to work every day and uses the same drill bits. He's not worried about taking his finger off.
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Bill Gross
American Businessman
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
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Nina Easton
American Journalist
Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.
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Rex Tillerson
American Businessman
More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.
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Paul Young
English Singer
I became a qualified machinist at Vauxhall. For some reason it's been erroneously reported that I used to screw on hubcaps, but that's not true. You can't screw on a hubcap, anyway, so I have no idea where that came from.
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Stacey Abrams
American Politician
The manufacturing-intensive advanced energy industry promotes work for engineers, machinists, coders and installers, but also administrators, accountants, truck drivers, sales force, and a range of other occupations.
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Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein
American Musician
Yeah, you'd be surprised how many well known musicians have regular jobs. And yes, I'm a machinist. That's how I made my guitars - at a machine shop.
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Tan France
English Designer
I thought I wanted to be a machinist. I thought that was the most glamorous job in the world.
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Jacques Plante
Canadian Athlete
Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.
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David Bailey
English Photographer
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
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Kevin Nealon
American Comedian
My adrenaline is definitely going, but it's mostly my real, laid-back persona carrying over on stage. When I first started, I was nervous, I'd be really high energy, and I'd be sweating. Now it's just my job. It's like a machinist who goes to work every day and uses the same drill bits. He's not worried about taking his finger off.
Quote examples
Bill Gross
American Businessman
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
Quote examples
Nina Easton
American Journalist
Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.
Quote examples
Rex Tillerson
American Businessman
More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.
Quote examples
Paul Young
English Singer
I became a qualified machinist at Vauxhall. For some reason it's been erroneously reported that I used to screw on hubcaps, but that's not true. You can't screw on a hubcap, anyway, so I have no idea where that came from.
Quote examples
Stacey Abrams
American Politician
The manufacturing-intensive advanced energy industry promotes work for engineers, machinists, coders and installers, but also administrators, accountants, truck drivers, sales force, and a range of other occupations.
Quote examples
Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein
American Musician
Yeah, you'd be surprised how many well known musicians have regular jobs. And yes, I'm a machinist. That's how I made my guitars - at a machine shop.
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Tan France
English Designer
I thought I wanted to be a machinist. I thought that was the most glamorous job in the world.
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Jacques Plante
Canadian Athlete
Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.
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David Bailey
English Photographer
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
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