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MECHANIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles
Synonyms:
auto-mechanic; automobile mechanic; car-mechanic; grease monkey; mechanic
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mechanic" is a kind of...):
maintenance man; repairman; service man (a skilled worker whose job is to repair things)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
Synonyms:
machinist; mechanic; shop mechanic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("mechanic" is a kind of...):
artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling the action of a machine
Example:
from blank to blank a threadless way I pushed mechanic feet
Classified under:
Similar:
mechanical (using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices)
Context examples:
These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
His sister Marian had been keeping company with an industrious young mechanic, of German extraction, who, after thoroughly learning the trade, had set up for himself in a bicycle-repair shop.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For half an hour, Holmes worked with concentrated energy, laying down one tool, picking up another, handling each with the strength and delicacy of the trained mechanic.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and MIT approached the problem by using computational simulations of the mechanics of red blood cells as they pass through the spleen.
(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)
The researchers are inventing new materials that are small, fast, and can perform in a multitude of ways, such as mimicking neurons in the brain, computing with magnets, and calculating with quantum mechanics.
(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)
The key, Goulbourne said, is that the model connects geometry to mechanics in an intricate way, paving the way for a new branch of mechanics.
(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)
The measured gain in speed is tiny and `Oumuamua is still slowing down because of the pull of the Sun — just not as fast as predicted by celestial mechanics.
(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)
The way we represent the universe and its history are described by Einstein's equations of general relativity, Newton's universal gravitation and quantum mechanics.
(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Yet, researchers say that many technologies — from stretchable electronics to tiny robots so small they cannot be seen with the naked eye — require an understanding of the mechanics of graphene, particularly how it flexes and bends, to unlock their potential.
(Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets, National Science Foundation)
An individual trained and qualified to advise, administer, supervise, or perform research or other professional and scientific work in the investigation and application of the relations between space, time, matter, and energy in the areas of mechanics, sound, optics, heat, electricity, magnetism, radiation, or atomic and nuclear phenomena.
(Physicist, NCI Thesaurus)
