(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.
Workbench
Definition:
(n.) A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
Example Sentences:
(1) One patient successfully underwent surgery via the "workbench" technique, in which the tumor was dissected from one kidney which was then reinserted as an autograft.
(2) The Sequence Analysis Workbench provides several experimental tools for direct manipulation of sequence data; object-oriented programming makes it possible to construct sophisticated tools quickly, and facilitates critical examination and review of scientific software.
(3) We advocate small-vessel reconstruction in human renal transplantation, either during ex vivo preservation (workbench surgery) or at the time of transplantation.
(4) We conclude that the most important factors for successful reconstruction after craniofacial trauma are to do as much as possible the first time, to obtain wide exposure, to ensure rigid fixation of bone pieces and grafts, and to make use of a workbench procedure where bone fragments are assembled on a side table for subsequent reattachment to the head.
(5) The second experiment investigated whether memory performance would be influenced by mere changes in the label of materials in memory tasks to be biased toward male or female gender background: labelling a shopping list as pertaining to 'groceries' or to 'hardware store'; and a set of directions to 'make a shirt' or to 'make a workbench'.
(6) Dr Ann McKee , a neuropathologist who jointly heads the lab, retrieves a brain from a plastic container and places it carefully on a workbench.
(7) Three commercial products for data acquisition with the Macintosh computer, known by the trade names of LabVIEW, Analog Connection WorkBench, and MacLab were reviewed and compared, on the basis of actual trials, for their suitability in physiological and biological teaching laboratories.
(8) Use of the Menu Workbench program in other bio-medical applications is discussed.
(9) A lamellar microkeratome, an artificial anterior chamber for corneoscleral discs and a refractive workbench for non-freeze modification are shown.
(10) Analog Connection WorkBench offers a combination of versatility and ease of use.
(11) We have developed for this purpose an interactive program, MACAW (Multiple Alignment Construction and Analysis Workbench), that allows the user to construct multiple alignments by locating, analyzing, editing, and combining "blocks" of aligned sequence segments.
(12) This exact model, both in size and shape, may then be used on a workbench to preconstruct an Ilizarov frame that resembles the patient's deformity exactly in three dimensions with respect to size and shape.
(13) The Researcher's Workbench, developed at the University of Utah College of Nursing, is a computer toolkit for nurse researchers.
(14) However that agreement was still on the workbench Monday evening and may yet fall apart.
(15) This article describes the purpose, methods, design, and implementation of the Workbench.
(16) The Workbench is available to all College of Nursing faculty, research associates, and graduate students.
(17) The MICRO system permits performance of biochemical tests at the workbench in the average clinical laboratory without the need for expensive equipment and time-consuming procedures.
(18) Airflow patterns suggested spread into the microbiologic laboratory through an open door located near the implicated workbench station and a false ceiling above the workbench area.
(19) I wrote it in a house full of builders in France, on a synthesiser resting on a Black & Decker workbench, because there was no piano or table.
(20) Removal of the calculi was carried out 3-4 weeks later on a workbench, using microsurgical techniques and ex situ radiographies.