mechanic
(mɪkænɪk )
Word forms: mechanics
1. countable noun A2
A mechanic is someone whose job is to repair and maintain machines and engines, especially car engines.
If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.
An elevator mechanic can work the machinery directly by turning this lever.
Synonyms: engineer, technician, repairman, grease monkey [informal]
2. plural noun
The mechanics of a process, system, or activity are the way in which it works or the way in which it is done.
What are the mechanics of this new process? [+ of]
The mechanics of the job, however, have changed little since then.
3. uncountable noun
Mechanics is the part of physics that deals with the natural forces that act on moving or stationary objects.
...the other great theory of 20th-century physics, quantum mechanics.
He has not studied mechanics or engineering.
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Translations:
Chinese: 技工
Japanese: 機械工
- by hand
- by heart
- by hook or by crook
- by implication
- by its nature
- by law
- bylaw
- by-law
- by leaps and bounds
- byline
- by-line
- by means of
- by mutual consent
- by name
- by name
- by name/by the name of something
- by no manner of means
- by no means
- by no means/by no manner of means
- by no means exhaustive
- by no stretch of the imagination
- BYOD
- bypass
- bypass an obstacle
- bypass route