Meaning

4 senses

  1. A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines.

    меха́никmexánik

  2. A person skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.

    Schlosser

    машини́стmašiníst

    a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools

  3. A person who operates machinery.

  4. A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

    машини́стmašiníst

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Tom isn't a machinist.

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  2. Tom is a machinist.

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  3. Sami worked as a machinist in a factory.

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  4. Soon after graduating from trade school, Ray Murphy was taken on as a machinist at the local automobile plant.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
constructor of machines and engines:
one skilled in the use of machine tools:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one skilled in the use of machine tools:

Origin

From French machiniste, from machine (“machine, mechanical device”), from Latin māchina, f

From French machiniste, from machine (“machine, mechanical device”), from Latin māchina, from Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “machine”).

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Forms

plural: machinists
Singularmachinist
Pluralmachinists

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
operatorB2machine operatorstage machinist
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedmachine
Derivedmachinist block

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
machetemachineA1machinerymachismomachomackerel
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