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/məkˈænɪk/ /mɪkˈænɪk/ Listen

noun

Mechanic n.

The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction. (Obs.)

A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. Also, a technician who maintains or repairs machinery; as, an auto mechanic. "An art quite lost with our mechanics."

adjective

Mechanic adj.

Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts. "These mechanic philosophers." "Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers."

Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar. "To make a god, a hero, or a king Descend to a mechanic dialect." "Sometimes he ply'd the strong, mechanic tool."

Base. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mechanic" Quotes from Famous Books

... counters lying, authors in the street with spectacles, George Dyers (you may know them by their gait), lamps lit at night, pastry-cooks' and silversmiths' shops, beautiful Quakers of Pentonville, noise of coaches, drowsy cry of mechanic watchman at night, with bucks reeling home drunk; if you happen to wake at midnight, cries of "Fire!" and "Stop, thief!" inns of court, with their learned air, and halls, and butteries, just like Cambridge colleges; old ...

— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb

... lived alone then with her two servants, so she lived alone now, with the same cook in the kitchen, but not the same housemaid to attend her. Flora had been married for five or six years to a respectable mechanic, and lived in a small white house across the common, with three children to care for—two boys and a girl. This last she had thought to call for her former mistress to whom she had timidly expressed her intention, asking if ...

— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes

... sauce. Even apples were luxuries we could not have and we greatly missed them. We cleared new ground, sowed turnip seed, dragged it in and raised some very large nice turnips. At this time there was not a wagon in the neighborhood, but Mr. Traverse, being a mechanic and ingenious, cut down a tree, sawed oft two short logs, used them for hubs and made the wheels for a cart. These he took to Dearbornville and had them ironed oft. He made the body himself and then had ...

— The Bark Covered House • William Nowlin

... whole difference. But please note that when a man is charged before a modern tribunal (to take a case that happened the other day) of having asserted and maintained that he was an officer returned from the front to receive the Victoria Cross at the hands of the King, although he was in fact a mechanic, nobody thinks of treating him as afflicted with a delusion. He is punished for false pretences, because his assertion is credible and therefore misleading. Just so, the claim to divinity made by Jesus was to the High Priest, who ...

— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw

... mechanic or laborer is employed by the day at a fixed wage, the length of time and dates ...

— Business Hints for Men and Women • Alfred Rochefort Calhoun

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