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Metalworking

Definition: Metalworking

Metalworking

Noun

1. 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: Metalworking

Synonym: metalwork (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Metalworking

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Metalworking is the craft and practice of working with metals to create parts or structures. It requires skill and the use of many different types of tools, including:

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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Crosswords: Metalworking

English words defined with "metalworking": metalworking visepatternmakerScribe. (references)
Specialty definitions using "metalworking": AIRCRAFT BODY REPAIRER, apparatus-repair mechanic, assembler, special machinebench handcarbide grinder, CARBIDE OPERATORdetail maker and fitter, die cutter, DIE FINISHER, die fitter, DIE MAKER, duplicating-machine operatorELECTROMECHANICAL TECHNICIANFILER, HAND, TOOLGAS-WELDING-EQUIPMENT MECHANIC, GUNSMITH, BALLISTICS LABORATORYhub cutterLOCK ASSEMBLERMACHINE BUILDER, MACHINE TRY-OUT SETTER, MACHINIST, AUTOMOTIVE, machinist, bench, MACHINIST, EXPERIMENTAL, MAINTENANCE MECHANIC, COMPRESSED-GAS PLANT, MAINTENANCE MECHANIC, ENGINE, MANUAL-ARTS THERAPIST, metalworking chemicals division, milling-machine operator, milling-planer operator, miniature-model maker, mock-up assembler, MOCK-UP BUILDER, MODEL MAKER, MODEL MAKER, FIREARMSOPERATING-TABLE ASSEMBLERPARTS SALVAGER, PATTERNMAKER, SAMPLE, perfectly plastic-rigid material, PLANER SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOL, precision filer, hand, PROFILING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOL, PROP MAKER, prototype machinistsample maker, SAW-EDGE FUSER, CIRCULAR, second assistant engineer, slab-miller operator, SPRING-MANUFACTURING SET-UP TECHNICIANTEST TECHNICIAN, third assistant engineer, tool filer, hand, TOOL-AND-DIE MAKER, TOOL-AND-DIE SUPERVISOR, tracer-controlled-milling-machine operatorvise handWIRE-MESH-FILTER FABRICATOR. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Metalworking

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Metalworking Machinery and Parts in N. America & Caribbean (reference)

  • Machine Tools and Metalworking Equipment in Colombia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • Metalworking Manufacturing Technologies in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • Machine Tools and Metalworking Equipment in Vietnam: A Strategic Entry Report, 1999 (reference)

  • Metalworking Machine Tools in Germany: A Strategic Entry Report, 1999 (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Metalworking Science and Engineering (McGraw-Hill Series in Materials Science and Engineering) (reference)

  • Modern Metalworking (reference)

  • Opportunities in Metalworking Careers (reference)

  • Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking (reference)

  • Precision Tools and Metalworking in Germany: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Metalworking

Illustrations:
Metalworking

More pictures...

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Photo Album: Metalworking

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The Farrel-Birmingham Company of Ansonia, Connecticut. Makers of metalworking equipment and machine parts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Metalworking

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Metalworking

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4749,740

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Metalworking

Expressions using "metalworking": metalworking chemicals division metalworking shop metalworking vise. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Metalworking

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

metalworking

87

cap metalworking plastic

3

metalworking tool

60

metalworking lathe

3

metalworking fluid

24

coolant filter metalworking

3

metalworking machinery

16

fluid metalworking system

3

used metalworking machinery

13

institute metalworking national skill

3

metalworking equipment

12

metalworking sheet

3

metalworking lubricants

12

covell metalworking

3

used metalworking equipment

7

metalworking supply

3

metalworking product

7

metalworking saw

2

metalworking machinery dealer

6

used metalworking machine

2

covell creative metalworking

6

metalworking machine tool

2

metalworking project

5

metalworking machine

2

eriez metalworking

5

magazine metalworking

2

fluid metalworking risk

4

directory metallergy metalworking

2

metalworking plan

4

lathemaster metalworking tool

2

cap metalworking

4

instr measuring metalworking tool

2

canadian machinery metalworking

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Metalworking

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

   

Russian 

  

мех)металлообработка (metalwork, metal-work). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prerada metala (metalwork). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

metallbearbetning. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Metalworking

Derivations

Words beginning with "metalworking": metalworkings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Metalworking"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "metalworking" (pronounced me"tulwer'king)
5-w er' k i nghardworking, networking, woodworking.
3-k i ngaching, 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.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Metalworking

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Metalworking


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 74 61 6C 77 6F 72 6B 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .    -    .-    .-..    .--.    ---    .-.    -.-    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101100 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#101 &#116 &#97 &#108 &#119 &#111 &#114 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

477186677889818477758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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