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me·chan·ic

(mĭ-kăn′ĭk)

A worker skilled in making, using, or repairing machines, vehicles, and tools.

[From Middle English, mechanical, from Old French mecanique, from Latin mēchanicus, from Greek mēkhanikos, from mēkhanē, machine, device; see magh- in Indo-European roots.]

me·chan′ic adj.

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mechanic

(mɪˈkænɪk)

1. (Professions) a person skilled in maintaining or operating machinery, motors, etc

2. (Mechanical Engineering) a person skilled in maintaining or operating machinery, motors, etc

3. (Professions) archaic a common labourer

[C14: from Latin mēchanicus, from Greek mēkhanikos, from mēkhanē machine]

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me•chan•ic

(məˈkæn ɪk)

n.

1. a person who repairs machinery.

2. a worker skilled in the use of tools and equipment.

[1350–1400; Middle English: mechanical < Latin mēchanicus < Greek mēchanikós]

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Noun	1.	mechanic - a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools machinist, shop mechanic artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
	2.	mechanic - someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles auto-mechanic, automobile mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey maintenance man, repairman, service man - a skilled worker whose job is to repair things
Adj.	1.	mechanic - resembling the action of a machine; "from blank to blank a threadless way I pushed mechanic feet"- Emily Dickenson mechanical - using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices; "a mechanical process"; "his smile was very mechanical"; "a mechanical toy"

mechanic

noun engineer, technician, repairman, grease monkey (informal) I think you should take the car to your mechanic.

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Translations

عامِل ميكانيكيمِيكَانِيكِيّ

mechanik

mekaniker

Mechaniker Mechanikerin

μηχανικός

mecánico

mekaanikko

mécanicien

mehaničar

gépészműszerész

vélvirki

meccanico meccanismo meccanizzare meccanizzazione procedura

機械工

기계공

mašinaliaimašinalusmašinųmechanikamechaninis

mehāniķis

mecanicien werktuigkunde werktuigkundige

mehanik

mekaniker

ช่างเครื่อง

tamirci

thợ máy

技工机修工

mechanic

[mɪˈkænɪk] N → mecánico/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mechanic

[mɪˈkænɪk] n (also car mechanic) → mécanicien(ne) m/f
He's a mechanic → Il est mécanicien.

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mechanic

n → Mechaniker(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mechanic

[mɪˈkænɪk] n → meccanico
motor mechanic → motorista m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mechanic

(miˈkӕnik) noun

a skilled worker who repairs or maintains machinery.

meˈchanical adjective

1. having to do with machines. mechanical engineering.

2. worked or done by machinery. a mechanical sweeper.

3. done etc without thinking, from force of habit. a mechanical action.

meˈchanically adverb

meˈchanics noun singular

1. the science of the action of forces on objects. He is studying mechanics.

2. the art of building machines. He applied his knowledge of mechanics to designing a new wheelchair.

noun plural

the ways in which something works or is applied. the mechanics of the legal system.

ˈmechanism (ˈme-) noun

a (usually small) piece of machinery. a watch mechanism.

ˈmechanize, ˈmechanise (ˈme-) verb

1. to introduce machinery into (an industry etc). We've mechanized the entire process.

2. to supply (troops) with motor vehicles.

ˌmechaniˈzation, ˌmechaniˈsation noun

mechanic

→ مِيكَانِيكِيّ mechanik mekaniker Mechaniker μηχανικός mecánico mekaanikko mécanicien mehaničar meccanico 機械工 기계공 werktuigkundige mekaniker mechanik mecânico механик mekaniker ช่างเครื่อง tamirci thợ máy 技工

mechanic

n. mecánico-a.

Could you send a mechanic? (US)
Can you send a mechanic? (UK) → Můžete sem vyslat automechanika? → Kan De sende en mekaniker? → ¿Puede enviarme un mecánico? → Voitteko lähettää korjaajan? → Può mandare un meccanico? → Kunt u een monteur sturen? → Kan du sende en mekaniker? → O senhor pode enviar um mecânico? → Kan ni skicka en bilmekaniker? → Tamirci gönderebilir misiniz? → 能不能派一名技师来？

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When he got into the street again, the boy noticed for the first time, a man dressed like a respectable mechanic, walking on the opposite side of the road, and apparently keeping the sailor in view.

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THE Warden of a Penitentiary was one day putting locks on the doors of all the cells when a mechanic said to him:

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Will not the merchant understand and be disposed to cultivate, as far as may be proper, the interests of the mechanic and manufacturing arts, to which his commerce is so nearly allied?

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D'Artagnan remembered that the English are masters in mechanics and conservative industry; and he determined to go in the morning in search of a mechanic who would sell him a strong box.

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Toward the shaven monk who trudged along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his fat jowls, the coal-burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman he was abject; with the small farmer and the free mechanic he was cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a counte- nance respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air -- he couldn't even see him.

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Why, I saw you fight, before the earthquake, in the Mechanic's Pavilion.

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He trod the pavement heavily with his shiny boots, and his general get-up was that of a well-to-do mechanic in business for himself.

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If indeed they were, the race has sadly deteriorated in their knowledge of the mechanic arts.

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This center, formed of indefinite molecules, began to revolve around its own axis during its gradual condensation; then, following the immutable laws of mechanics, in proportion as its bulk diminished by condensation, its rotary motion became accelerated, and these two effects continuing, the result was the formation of one principal star, the center of the nebulous mass.

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But I shall not trouble the reader with a particular description of my own mechanics; let it suffice to say, that in six weeks time with the help of the sorrel nag, who performed the parts that required most labour, I finished a sort of Indian canoe, but much larger, covering it with the skins of YAHOOS, well stitched together with hempen threads of my own making.

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At other times anyone could dance who paid his money and was orderly; the railroad men, the roundhouse mechanics, the delivery boys, the iceman, the farm-hands who lived near enough to ride into town after their day's work was over.

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As for those of the fourth, which consisted of mechanics, they were incapable of any office.