(n.) A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
(n.) One skilled in the use of machine tools.
(n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
Example Sentences:
(1) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
(2) Elevated risks for stomach cancer among carpenters and machinists may reflect exposure to dusts, abrasives, and cutting oils.
(3) Considering only subjects with repeatable measurements, FEV1 was lower among textile workers with byssinosis and machinists with chronic bronchitis than among their asymptomatic coworkers.
(4) That displaced machinists on the banks of Lake Erie were so incensed by the Podesta emails that they voted for Trump instead of Clinton?
(5) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
(6) Further analyses did not elucidate an exposure common to machinists and welders that might explain the findings.
(7) While these levels are far below the values of 1-2% by weight (10,000-20,000 ppm) found in some contaminated products 13 years ago, they may nevertheless pose a continuing health risk for the machinists who work with them.
(8) The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality, decried the fact that women can still expect to earn less than their male counterparts, more than 40 years after the Dagenham machinists went on strike in a move that triggered the Equal Pay Act.
(9) Brian Dossett, whose family-run timber and wood-machinist business has been on High Road since 1948 and employs 20 people, has joined other businesses to fight the plan.
(10) During vocational training, as well as in their professional lives, marine engineers and machinists are exposed to asbestos, different kinds of mineral oils, and exhaust gases with marked individual variation as regards mode and magnitude of exposure.
(11) In a study of 41 rats, measurements of external vessel diameter were made using a standard machinist's drum micrometer.
(12) Back in 1970, Barbara Castle championed the legislation, having been shocked into action by the treatment of female sewing machinists at the Ford car plant in Dagenham.
(13) The highest mortality rates were found among persons with blue-collar type jobs (e.g., construction laborers and machinists) or jobs where alcohol was easily available (e.g., bartenders and waitresses).
(14) None of the design features are beyond the ingenuity of local machinists to modify, find alternate materials, and use different machine procedures.
(15) Three cases (a chemist with exposure to halogenated aromatic compounds and aliphatic amines, a pipefitter with exposure to asbestos, and a machinist with exposures to cutting oils, solvents, and abrasives) and one of 28 controls (a fireman with multiple hazardous exposures) had an occupational risk factor.
(16) On Mondays, a 5% or greater decrease in the forced expiratory volume in 1-second (FEV1), regarded as an "FEV1-response," occurred in 23.6% of the machinists and in only 9.5% of the assembly workers (relative risk = 2.5, p less than .05).
(17) The findings demonstrated an extremely high relative risk for machinists exposed to chrysotile for the induction of mesothelioma in the individual year of hire cohorts.
(18) The machinists who were in their 20s when they were trained by Soviet engineers are now middle-aged, but they're still working on the same equipment, with instructions in fading cyrillic characters.
(19) To the white-bearded Afghan machinists, it felt like the cold war era had returned.
(20) Elevated risks for lung cancer were seen in miners, metal processors and machinists, while a reduced risk was seen in farmers.
Millwright
Definition:
(n.) A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strong associations were found between lung and digestive organ cancer and employment as maintenance welders or millwrights in the plant (odds ratios greater than 10).
(2) To characterise the knee morbidity in carpet layers and to identify occupational risk factors, a questionnaire was completed by 112 carpet and floor layers, 42 tile and terrazo setters, and 243 millwrights and bricklayers (MWBL).
(3) Bricklayers and millwrights were studied for comparison.