MECHANIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mechanic mean? 

• MECHANIC (noun)
  The noun MECHANIC has 2 senses:

1. a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools

2. someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles

  Familiarity information: MECHANIC used as a noun is rare.

• MECHANIC (adjective)
  The adjective MECHANIC has 1 sense:

1. resembling the action of a machine

  Familiarity information: MECHANIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MECHANIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A craftsman skilled in operating machine tools

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

machinist; mechanic; shop mechanic

Hypernyms ("mechanic" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

auto-mechanic; automobile mechanic; car-mechanic; grease monkey; mechanic

Hypernyms ("mechanic" is a kind of...):

maintenance man; repairman; service man (a skilled worker whose job is to repair things)

• MECHANIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling the action of a machine

Context example:

from blank to blank a threadless way I pushed mechanic feet

Similar:

mechanical (using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices)

 Context examples 

A subdiscipline of Kinetics that studies the rates and mechanics of enzymes and enzyme-driven reactions.

(Enzyme Kinetics, NCI Thesaurus)

The study of the mechanics of a living body, especially of the forces exerted by muscles and gravity on the skeletal structure.

(Biomechanics, NCI Thesaurus)

Various interactions can be studied depending on the specific mechanics of the probe.

(Atomic Resolution Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

The greater understanding of volcanism could alter scientists' perception of the mechanics of ice-sheet loss, including in the areas where the glaciers meet the sea.

(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)

Human HMGA Family Genes encode HMGA proteins that participate in many nuclear processes ranging from chromosome and chromatin mechanics to transcription factors that regulate gene expression.

(HMGA Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

At this level, phenomena are controlled primarily by Coulombic forces, quantum mechanics, and the random thermal motion of particles.

(Nanoscale Phenomena, NCI Thesaurus)

This change can be achieved by applying a magnetic field, an electric field or through mechanic force.

(Green material for refrigeration identified, University of Cambridge)

I understood the mechanics of levers; but where was I to get a fulcrum?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Kinetics is the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies and govern the rates at which molecules and compounds react.

(Kinetics, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, and spectroscopy are some areas of chemistry comprising the bulk of physical chemistry.

(Physical Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)