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μηχανικός — meaning in English

michanikos

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English meaning

  • engineer noun A person professionally trained to design, build, or maintain machines, structures, or systems.
  • machinist noun Someone who builds machines and engines, or knows a lot about them.
  • mechanic noun A person skilled in repairing or maintaining machines, especially motor vehicles.
  • mechanical adj Relating to machines or the physical forces and motion they involve.

Senses

μηχανικός is used for these senses in English:

  • engineer Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally) , a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
  • machinist A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines.
  • machinist A person skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.
  • mechanical Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).

engineer — full definition

  1. noun A person professionally trained to design, build, or maintain machines, structures, or systems.
  2. noun A person who operates an engine, especially the driver of a train (chiefly US) or the operator of a ship's engine room.
  3. verb To design, build, or carefully arrange something using skill and planning.

machinist — full definition

  1. noun Someone who builds machines and engines, or knows a lot about them.
  2. noun Someone trained to use machine tools to shape metal parts.
  3. noun Someone whose job is to run machinery.
  4. noun Someone employed in a theatre to move the scenery.
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