Mechanic

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  • noun. A worker skilled in making, using, or repairing machines, vehicles, and tools.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A professional card-shuffler usually employed to deal faro in brace games.
  • Same as mechanical: now used chiefly in the phrase the mechanic arts.
  • Belonging to or characteristic of the class of mechanics; common; vulgar; mean.
  • Supporting the atomistic philosophy.
  • noun. Mechanic art; mechanics.
  • noun. Mechanism; structure.
  • noun. A maker of machines or machinery; hence, any skilled worker with tools; one who has learned a trade; a workman whose occupation consists in the systematic manipulation and constructive shaping or application of materials; an artificer, artisan, or craftsman.
  • noun. One who works mechanically; one who follows routine or rule in an occupation requiring careful thought or study: used opprobriously: as, a mere literary mechanic; the picture shows the artist to be only a mechanic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
  • noun. A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. Also, a technician who maintains or repairs machinery.
  • adjective. Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
  • adjective. Base.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. mechanical; relating to the laws of motion in the art of constructing things
  • adjective. Of or relating to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
  • adjective. base
  • noun. A skilled worker capable of building or repairing machinery. A mechanic can be compared to a technician, the distinction being that the technician is stronger in theory, the mechanic stronger in hands-on experience.
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  • adjective. resembling the action of a machine
  • noun. a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
  • noun. someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles
  • Word Usage
    "A convenient magic sword mechanic is hard to find."