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[muh-kan-ik]

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noun

a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.

a worker who is skilled in the use of tools, machines, equipment, etc.

Slang. a person skilled in the dishonest handling of cards, dice, or other objects used in games of chance.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English: mechanical < Latin mēchanicus < Greek mēchanikós, equivalent to mēchan(ḗ) machine + -ikos -ic

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a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty

characterized by or defining oneself by ecological awareness, liberal political views, and support or use of natural products and health foods

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One elevator mechanic said he liked to have a beer or two on the job.

Believe it or not, sometimes the first-gen daughter of an auto mechanic edges out the legacy who started his own non-profit.

When you take your car to be serviced or repaired, you expect the mechanic to replace any worn or damaged parts with new ones.

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One elevator mechanic said he liked to have a beer or two on the job.

Believe it or not, sometimes the first-gen daughter of an auto mechanic edges out the legacy who started his own non-profit.

When you take your car to be serviced or repaired, you expect the mechanic to replace any worn or damaged parts with new ones.

If neither option exists nearby, find a local service station or mechanic that accepts used oil for recycling.

So a person who can't afford school for a child teaches him to be a mechanic.

He wears his father's old mechanic jumpsuit that is splotched with paint from previous projects.

There aren't points, bonuses or combos to achieve so there's nothing really to distract from the primary game mechanic.

The mechanic looks over your car and gives you a price.

Still another two days later, they finally send out a different mechanic who gets it to start.

The dealer mechanic stupidly tried the same manueuver not heeding my warning and almost lost his leg.

She is also a volunteer mechanic for a community bike workshop.

While you're at it, ask your mechanic what's the highest speed your car's ever reached.

The former mechanic tied one end of a string to a wrench and the other end to a finger.

Then the amateur mechanic came out in the parking lot with me to listen to my sorry-sounding car.

Install a phone and some sensors inside a bulldozer, and it can call a mechanic before it goes wrong.

Nonetheless, where the biologist saw ecological disaster, a vacationing mechanic saw seafood risotto.

By the time the pilots and the mechanic drain the over-wing fuel tank into a drum, fog obscures the horizon.

The video shows off the game's boosting mechanic and bizarre, time travel-filled plot.

If a mechanic makes a threat you can always go to another mechanic.

Favored by genetics-he hailed from a line of civil engineers-Abercrombie also made his mark as a ?eld mechanic.

There, he formed a partnership with a mechanic to open a factory that made cotton-spinning machinery.

People buy it because it is reliable and any mechanic can fix it.

Bring your car in for regular tune-ups so that your mechanic will be able to spot problems and take care of them early on.

It's a mechanic we've seen before, with mixed results.

He worked first as a mechanic and then as a driver of the firm's racing cars.

There's an interesting risk-reward mechanic to the bubble popping.

It starts by making sure the game boasts a fun and compelling game mechanic.

Follow the link for video and commentary from the mechanic responsible for this monster.

Bulletstorm‘s levels aren't as intricate as the play mechanic.

It's a world of electronics under the hood, so the mechanic becomes a technician.

Having a good non-dealership mechanic is also a plus.

Her stepdad is a diesel mechanic who used to help her work on her car.

It was the spring rush, the mechanic told me, and he was too busy.

My dad was a car mechanic with a fifth grade education, my mom graduated high school and was a secretary.

Breyer said at one point to a lawyer representing a truck mechanic whose high blood.

Long before moviegoers had heard of quantum mechanics, they'd seen a quantum mechanic.

It doesn't make an auto mechanic a better citizen, it doesn't help him.

Unless the mechanic can give the screech a context, he'll never find the broken part.

The weighting of the putt mechanic seems to have somehow missed on any sort of testing or focus grouping.

She insists it has been examined by a mechanic and could be made airworthy in a few hours.

Though this plot and their chief gameplay mechanic is principally.

There's a deck-building mechanic that allows tacticians to stack their deck with orders, units and other abilities.

But what's particularly intriguing is how the developers incorporated prayer as a central game mechanic.

One interesting mechanic is that the first race/power combination.

The flying would be fun and simple, if not for one peculiar mechanic.

Put an anthropologist, a supply-side economist, and a mechanic in the same room.

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World English Dictionary

mechanic (mɪˈkænɪk)

—n
1.	a person skilled in maintaining or operating machinery, motors, etc
2.	archaic a common labourer

[C14: from Latin mēchanicus, from Greek mēkhanikos, from mēkhanēmachine]

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Word Origin & History

mechanic

1540s (adj.) "pertaining to or involving mechanical labor" (now usually mechanical), from L. mechanicus (n. and adj.), from Gk. mekhanikos "an engineer" (n.), also "resourceful, inventive," lit. "pertaining to machines" (adj.), from mekhane (see machine). The noun meaning

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originally was "manual laborer" (late 14c.); sense of "one who is employed in manual labor, a handicraft worker, an artisan (chief sense through early 19c.) is attested from 1560s. The adj. meaning "of the nature of or pertaining to machines" is from 1620s; the noun sense of "skilled workman who is concerned with making or repair of machinery" is from 1660s, but not the main sense until the rise of the automobile.

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