techniciann.
/tɛkˈnɪʃn/, U.S. /tɛkˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. A person knowledgeable or skilled in the technicalities of a particular field; esp. an expert in the formal or practical aspect of an art, sometimes with implications of a corresponding lack of creativity.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person
slies1297
artist1594
skilla1657
technicist1828
technician1833
technist1858
hot dog1966
1833 S. Austin Characteristics Goethe I. 216 Grammarians and technicians are bound..to acknowledge these his efforts.
1893 Musical Times 34 216/2 Herr Klingel is a fine player in the classical style; he is also a superb technician; and the Concerto illustrates these two sides of his artistic nature.
1895 H. A. Kennedy in 19th Cent. Aug. 331 The mere technician can never interest; the literary man, even if inexpert in stage technique, may do so in a high degree.
1934 W. Lewis Men without Art ii. viii. 217 I will agree that the culture-technician who has..taken to ‘leaning heavily on religious values’..is not a bird who seems to promise much.
1962 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 3 Unexcelled as a technician and swinger, Baker is said by some to lack a musical heart and personality of his own.
1980 M. Fonteyn Magic of Dance 209 As a dancer he was a fine technician, so he gave himself..quite as many opportunities to dazzle his audience as he gave his ballerinas.
2006 New Yorker 9 Jan. 87/3 Equally at home producing a novel in sonnets or a cornucopian family saga, Seth has few equals as a literary technician.
2. A person qualified in the practical aspects of one of the sciences or mechanical arts; (in later use) esp. a person whose job is to carry out practical work in a laboratory or to give assistance with technical equipment.dental technician: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > technician
technician1855
tech1953
technologist1966
techie1970
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > in laboratory
laboratory assistant1831
laboratory technician1896
lab tech1919
technician1920
lab technician1921
1855 A. A. Paton Bulgarian, Turk & German xi. 111 The able Engineer of the age of Wellington..was now heading a younger generation of technicians in devising dams against the new Muscovite inundation.
1920 Q. Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 17 195 It is hoped that it may not..deter the laboratory technician from the adoption of devices which provide for more adequate solutions.
1939 W. A. Richardson Technical College xxv. 476 There are certain high-grade technicians, e.g. chemists, physicists, mathematical engineers, who will be engaged in the more elaborate design problems, in industrial research and investigation.
1952 Economist 21 June 796/1 Technical colleges should be raised in status in order to produce technologists—as opposed to technicians.
1968 Rep. Patent Cases 85 104 Extracts from laboratory notebooks or other specific records pertaining to the particular strains employed by the laboratory technicians.
1983 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. a10/6 French technicians scurry around at the military air base assembling machine guns and helicopters.
2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Aug. 43/2 At Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Brown and a team of researchers developed a technology to support the technicians who repair and service Xerox machines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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