machinist

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

• IPA^(key): /məˈʃiː.nɪst/

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machinist (plural machinists)

1. A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines.
2. A person skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.
3. A person who operates machinery.

   Synonyms: machine operator, operator

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

   Synonym: stage machinist

• “machinist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “machinist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

From French machiniste. By surface analysis, machine +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ.ʃiˈnɪst/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧chi‧nist

machinist m (plural machinisten, diminutive machinistje n)

1. a machine-operator, engineer; notably:
   1. locomotive operator
   2. steam engines operator on a vessel
   3. machinist, scenery operator in a theater

• → Indonesian: masinis

machinist m (plural machiniști)

1. obsolete form of mașinist

• machinist in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN