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Definition: Metalworking |
MetalworkingNoun1. The activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "metalworking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: MetalworkingSynonym: metalwork (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Metalworking."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The Farrel-Birmingham Company of Ansonia, Connecticut. Makers of metalworking equipment and machine parts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The metalworking and machine tools market here is estimated to be nearly $450 million. (references) | |
The annual domestic production of metalworking and machine tools is estimated at $135 million. (references) | ||
In the first half of 1999, 43,000 sets of CNC metalworking machine tools were imported with a total value of US$654 million. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brazil | Labor unions, especially in the most skilled sectors such as metalworking and banking, tend to be well-organized and aggressive in defending wages and working conditions. (references) |
The Netherlands | Industrial activity, including mining, generates about 20% of the national product and is dominated by the metalworking, oil refining, chemical, and food-processing industries. (references) | |
Czech Rep | The Czech Republic's principal imports include telecommunications equipment, specialized metalworking machinery, non-ferrous metals, plastics, chemicals and transport equipment. (references) | |
Political Economy | Denmark | The key industries are food processing and metalworking, and a broad range of industrial goods is exported. (references) |
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| "Metalworking" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Metalworking" is used about 47 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) | 100% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "metalworking": metalworking chemicals division ♦ metalworking shop ♦ metalworking vise. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "metalworking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | металообработване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 金属工艺. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Tôlerie chaudronnerie (sheet metalworking), division des revêtements chimiques de protection (metalworking chemicals division), division des protections par voie chimique (metalworking chemicals division). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | metallbearbeitung (metal processing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταλλουργικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 金属 工 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"ぞくか"う. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etalworkingmay мех)металлообработка (metalwork, metal-work). (various references) prerada metala (metalwork). (various references) metallbearbetning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "metalworking": metalworkings. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "metalworking" (pronounced me"tulwer'king) |
| 5 | -w er' k i ng | hardworking, networking, woodworking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-k-l-m-n-o-r-t-w" | |
-3 letters: angleworm, marketing, metalwork, morganite, trameling, troweling, womanlier, womanlike. | |
-4 letters: airwomen, alerting, altering, amitrole, emigrant, gelation, geraniol, germinal, gnatlike, goatlike, integral, kilogram, knitwear, legation, ligament, longtime, lowering, maligner, malinger, metaling, milkwort, moatlike, oriental, regional, relating, relation, remaking, remating, retaking, rewaking, rolamite, roweling, tanglier, teamwork, tegminal, terminal, timework, timeworn, toweling, towering, tramline, trawling, triangle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-k-l-m-n-o-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: metalworkings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 74 61 6C 77 6F 72 6B 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- . - .- .-.. .--. --- .-. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101100 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M e t a l w o r k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0065 0074 0061 006C 0077 006F 0072 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)477186677889818477758073 |
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