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What is a machinist?

What is a machinist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
  2. One skilled in the use of machine tools.
  3. A person who operates machinery.
  4. A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
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The son of an Akron, Ohio, scrap-metal dealer, Ovshinsky skipped college to become a tool maker and machinist.
Trevor Reznik is an insomniac machinist whose loose handle on reality endangers everyone around him.
One a child-minder, one a machinist, they had taken deep breaths and taken on the trials and tribulations of the police service.
Drilling and tapping the tough steel of a receiver, while keeping the holes straight and aligned, is a task for a good machinist.
She spent the war years first as a machinist, then as a draughtswoman in the aircraft factory at Hatfield.
After his demob, Mr Harris worked as a plumber and his wife as a machinist.

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