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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Repairs damaged bodies and body parts of automotive vehicles, such as automobiles, buses, and light trucks according to repair manuals, using handtools and power tools: Examines damaged vehicles and estimates cost of repairs [SHOP ESTIMATOR (automotive ser.) 807.267-010]. Removes upholstery, accessories, electrical and hydraulic window-and-seat-operating equipment, and trim to gain access to vehicle body and fenders. Positions dolly block against surface of dented area and beats opposite surface to remove dents, using hammer. Fills depressions with body filler, using putty knife. Removes damaged fenders, panels, and grills, using wrenches and cutting torch, and bolts or welds replacement parts in position, using wrenches or welding equipment. Straightens bent automobile frames, using pneumatic frame straightening machine. Files, grinds, and sands repaired surfaces, using power tools and handtools. Refinishes repaired surface, using paint spray gun and sander. Aims headlights, aligns wheels, and bleeds hydraulic brake system. May paint surfaces after performing body repairs and be designated Automobile-Body Repairer, Combination (automotive ser.). May repair or replace defective mechanical parts [AUTOMOBILE MECHANIC (automotive ser.) 620.261-010]. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Italian metal worker at the Correct Manufacturing Company in Fallston Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Corporal Frank Hoffman, airplane mechanic with a mobile unit. Corporal Hoffman comes from 25 Moyston Street, Schenectady, New York where he was a sheet metal worker for an air conditioning company. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. A sheet metal worker. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture 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 |
sheet metal worker | 44 |
out about sheet metal worker union | 19 |
sheet metal worker international | 12 |
sheet metal worker international association | 11 |
metal worker | 6 |
sheet metal worker job | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "METAL WORKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | kovodìlník. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Metallarbeiter (metalworker). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | lakatos (fitter, locksmith), fémmunkás. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鍛工 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た""う (coal mine, coal pit, doing by oneself, forged steel, going alone, mineral exploration, monadic, simplex, unary). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | etalmay orkerway dökümcü (die sinker, founder, smelter). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ku-dim. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: metalworker. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-l-m-o-r-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: metalwork. | |
-3 letters: marketer, remarket, teamwork, telemark, troweler, workmate. | |
-4 letters: alerter, alterer, artwork, earworm, eelworm, meerkat, realter, realtor, reawoke, relater, relator, remaker, remoter, retaker, rewrote, trawler, waterer, wreaker. | |
-5 letters: areole, armlet, elater, emoter, kelter, krater, larker, leaker, marker, market, marrow, melter, merlot, meteor, mewler, molter, morale, mortal, mortar, oleate, omelet, realer, reamer, relate, remake, remark. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-l-m-o-r-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: metalworkers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Images: Photo Album 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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