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Definition: Lathe |
LatheNoun1. Machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lathe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | That oscillating part of a loom, positioned between the healds and the fell of the cloth, which carries the reed. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A machine for turning unfired hollow-ware, e. g. cups or vases. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Collective parts of a loom which. . . makes weaving possible. . . It. . includes reed, reed cap, raceplate, shuttles, shuttles boxes, picker sticks, lug straps, cams. . . batten; beater; lathe ENBRI 70 23-354 . . Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | A machine tool in which the principal movement is a rotary one, carried out by the workpiece. The "lathe" has a horizontal spindle, the "vertical boring mill" has a vertical axis of rotation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In woodworking/metalworking, a lathe is a machine tool which rapidly spins a block of material along a horizontal axis so that when abrasive or cutting tools are applied to the block, it can be shaped to produce an object which has symmetry about the rotation axis. Examples of objects that can be produced on a lathe include candlesticks, table legs, and baseball bats.
The material is held in place by two prongs, at least one of which can be moved horizontally to accommodate varying material lengths. An adjustable horizontal metal rail between the material and the operator accommodates the positioning of shaping tools. With wood, it is common practice to press and slide sandpaper against the still-spinning object after shaping.
In a metalworking lathe, metal is removed from the workpiece using a hardened cutting tool, which is usually fixed to a solid moveable mounting called the toolpost. This is in contrast to a woodworking lathe where most tools are hand held. The toolpost is manually operated by screwthreads to position the tool in a variety of planes. The toolpost may also be automatically driven to produce automatic finishing of a piece, or for cutting threads, gears, etc. Cutting fluid may also be pumped to the cutting site to provide cooling, lubrication and clearing of swarf from the workpiece. Some lathes may be operated under control of a computer for mass production of parts (see CNC).
See also
- metalworking
- woodworking
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In 3D computer graphics, a lathed object is a 3D model whose vertex geometry is produced by rotating the points of a spline or other point set around a fixed axis. The lathing may be partial; the amount of rotation is not necessarily a full 360 degrees. The point set providing the intial source data can be thought of as a cross section through the object.
- Medieval and Renaissance Lathes: http://www.his.com/~tom/sca/lathes.html
- Early Wood-Working: http://www.regia.org/woodwork.htm
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lathe."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | County, parish; city, domain, tract, arrondissement, mofussil, commune; wappentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, ward, precinct, bailiwick. |
Instrument | Instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven (The Lathe of Heaven; writing credit: Diane English; Ursula K. Le Guin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lathe of Heaven (2002) The Lathe of Heaven (1980) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. American Negroes are contributing their skills to war production. This lathe operator in a large Eastern airplane propeller factory is performing a delicate operation on the ring of the blade. Curtiss-Wright Pro. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Me and the old gent. This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michigan by Jake Sparling, sixty-year-old ex-lumberjack who saw his first lathe a year and a half ago, was named by Donald Nelson to head the list of 1,300 plants enrolled in the war production. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Clarence Haseldon turning lathe to make table leg in shop class. Ashwood Plantations school, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Orange, Texas. Woman learning how to operate a lathe at a training school for war workers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Lathe. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Navy Yard gun factory, Washington, D.C. Huge gun boring lathe. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hands of lathe worker, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Lathe" by Elias Minasi Commentary: "Mecanical Lathe. Free to download, just rate and comment." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Many lathe producers offer “quick change” tooling packages as a standard feature on new machines. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lathe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.73% of the time. "Lathe" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.73% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.27% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lathe" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lathe | Last name | 100 | 82,248 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lathe": bench lathe ♦ Blanchard lathe ♦ capstan lathe ♦ center lathe ♦ centre lathe ♦ Drill lathe ♦ Duplex lathe ♦ Engine lathe ♦ Fluting lathe ♦ Foot lathe ♦ Gap lathe ♦ Gauge lathe ♦ Geometric lathe ♦ Gibbed lathe ♦ Hand lathe ♦ Lapidary's lathe ♦ lathe bearer ♦ lathe dog ♦ lathe hand ♦ lathe log ♦ lathe operator ♦ lathe shop ♦ lathe tool ♦ lathe tooling ♦ Mandrel lathe ♦ pole lathe ♦ potter's lathe ♦ power lathe ♦ projectile lathe ♦ roll lathe ♦ slide lathe ♦ speed lathe ♦ threading lathe ♦ Throw lathe ♦ turned in the lathe ♦ turning lathe ♦ turret lathe ♦ wheel lathe ♦ wood lathe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lathe": lathe-bed, lathe-carrier, lathe-head, lathe-turned, lathe-turner. | |
Ending with "lathe": pole-lathe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lathe | 773 | lathe part | 24 |
wood lathe | 265 | lathe for sale | 24 |
metal lathe | 180 | clausing lathe | 24 |
cnc lathe | 155 | used metal lathe | 22 |
mini lathe | 130 | delta lathe | 21 |
brake lathe | 84 | ammco brake lathe | 20 |
south bend lathe | 81 | micro lathe | 20 |
atlas lathe | 65 | unimat lathe | 20 |
used lathe | 55 | emco lathe | 19 |
jet lathe | 51 | mini metal lathe | 19 |
used cnc lathe | 50 | hardinge lathe | 19 |
lathe chuck | 48 | taig lathe | 18 |
engine lathe | 42 | harrison lathe | 18 |
lathe machine | 40 | lathe duplicator | 18 |
wood turning lathe | 35 | small lathe | 16 |
lathe tool | 33 | atlas lathe part | 16 |
monarch lathe | 30 | southbend lathe | 16 |
logan lathe | 28 | lathe smithy | 16 |
hobby lathe | 28 | okuma cnc lathe | 16 |
the lathe of heaven | 25 | myford lathe | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lathe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | torno, tajë (nurse, screw, wet nurse). (various references) | |
Arabic | مخرطة (reamer), خرط (etch, etching, turn). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | струг (tool), грънчарско колело (throw, wheel). (various references) | |
Chinese | 车床, 鏇 (thread in screw), 車床 , 旋 (revolve, specially for an occasion). (various references) | |
Czech | soustruh. (various references) | |
Danish | drejebænk (turning machine, vertical boring mill). (various references) | |
Dutch | draaibank (turning machine, vertical boring mill). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tornilo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | rennitól. (various references) | |
Farsi | ماشین تراش (Millingmachine), چرخ کوزه گری , تراش دادن (Rasp), خراطی کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | sorvi. (various references) | |
French | tour (lap). (various references) | |
German | drehbank (turning machine, vertical boring mill), Drehmaschine (turning machine, vertical boring mill). (various references) | |
Greek | τόρνος (turning machine, vertical boring mill). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחרטה (lathe shop, turnery). (various references) | |
Hungarian | esztergapad (turn, turning-lathe, turning-machine), magtár (barn, granary, grange), közigazgatási terület, csűr (garner, granary, grange), bordaláda (batten). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pelarikan (potter's wheel), mesin bubut, bubutan (guy), bubut (coucal, pull up, stay), bindu. (various references) | |
Italian | tornio (turning machine, vertical boring mill). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 轆轤 (potter's wheel, pulley, windlass), ダメ押し (dahlia, d'Alembert's paradox, Dallas, dance, dance hall, dancer, dancing, day-one, Dulmadge-type screw, dumping, dunk, making doubly sure, the best, the Dalai Lama, to make a done deal), ラジウム療法 (final effort before the end, last, last lap, last spurt, radiator, radical, radicalist, radio, radio car, Radio City, radio compass, radio control, radio controlled models, radiocarbon test, radio-cassette, radio-cassette player, radioisotope, radiometer, radiosonde, radium therapy, RAS, raster, raster file, Remote Access Server, roster, rusk), 旋盤 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ダライ , ラス (RAS, Remote Access Server), せんばん (a great many, exceedingly, first move, indeed, precedence, very many, very much), ろくろ (potter's wheel, pulley, windlass). (various references) | |
Korean | 선반 (ledge, mill, Mills, Rack, shelf, Shelves). (various references) | |
Manx | deill (starfish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | athelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torno (clam, clamp, vise). (various references) | |
Romanian | strunji (turn), strung, da la strung. (various references) | |
Russian | токарный станок. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tokarska, strug (plane). (various references) | |
Spanish | torno (bur, burr, wheel, windlass). (various references) | |
Swedish | svarv. (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องกลึงโลหะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | torna tezgâhı (power lathe, turning lathe, turret lathe), torna (turning machine), çömlekçi çarkı (potter's wheel). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tokar (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | токарний верстат. (various references) | |
Welsh | turn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | tornos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | torno. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lathe": lathed, lather, lathered, latherer, latherers, lathering, lathers, lathery, lathes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lathe": blather, blathered, blatherer, blatherers, blathering, blathers, blatherskite, blatherskites, flathead, flatheads, slather, slathered, slathering, slathers. (additional references) | |
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"Lathe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Athe, athi, atthe, blathe, clathe, jathuk, kathle, laghe, laghu, lahh, Lahti, lanthe, lashe, latche, latee, latehed, Latha, lathi, leathet, leethe, lehti, lehto, Leithe, Lemhi, leth, lilhe, lilthe, lith, lithed, liuthe, Llaethog, lothe, lotho, Luhta, Luhti, luth, Luthce, luthien, oathe, plahte, Ulanhu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lathe" (pronounced lā"th) |
| 2 | -ā" th | bathe, rathe. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-t" | |
-1 letter: eath, haet, hale, halt, hate, heal, heat, late, lath, tael, tale, teal, tela, thae. | |
-2 letters: ale, alt, ate, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, het, lat, lea, let, tae, tea, tel, the. | |
-3 letters: ae, ah, al, at, eh, el, et, ha, he, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-t" | |
+1 letter: althea, chalet, daleth, halest, halite, halted, halter, hamlet, hantle, haslet, health, hyetal, lathed, lather, lathes, lethal, loathe, shelta, thaler, thecal, thenal, wealth. | |
+2 letters: althaea, altheas, anethol, athlete, benthal, blather, chaetal, chalets, chaplet, chattel, chelate, cholate, daleths, deathly, earthly, enthral, ethanol, ethical, halbert, halites, haltere, halters, hamlets, hantles, haplite, harslet, haslets, hatable, hatchel, hateful, hatless, hatlike, healths, healthy, heeltap, heliast, hellcat, hematal, hyalite, latched, latches, latchet, lathers, lathery, lathier, leather, lethals, lethean, loathed, loather, loathes, rathole, satchel, sheltas, slather, stealth, taphole, thalers, thermal, trachle, trehala, wealths, wealthy. | |
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