lathe operator

collocation in English

meaningsoflatheandoperator

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lathe
noun[C]
uk
/leɪð/us
/leɪð/
a machine for changing the shape of a piece of wood, metal, etc. that works by turning the material while a sharp tool is pressed ...
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operator
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒp.ər.eɪ.tər/us
/ˈɑː.pə.reɪ.t̬ɚ/
someone whose job is to use and control a machine ...
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(Definition oflatheandoperatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflathe operator

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Although we have a very large number of unemployed, we lack the type of skilled engineer—thelatheoperator, etc.
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It has been said that it is impossible to measure the work of the nurses as one might be able to do, for example, with a capstanlatheoperator.
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He had been a capstanlatheoperator.
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Graduating from high school in 1940, he became an apprenticelatheoperatorat an asphalt plant.
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Allasia was alatheoperatorin civilian life.
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He was first trained as a fitter, then moved tolatheoperator.
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He was able to develop his career as a comedian while working as alatheoperatorin his home town.
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After finishing high school, he became an apprentice turner (latheoperator).
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He was apparently told at school that one of his few options in life was to become alatheoperator.
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We know more about training capstan lathe operators than about the training of classroom teachers.
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We shall not try to impart skills—to turn people into lathe operators or motor mechanics.
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The whole area is teeming with millwrights, shipwrights, vertical borers, lathe operators and many other skilled men who make up our industrial strength.
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Aleph had a professional staff of lathe operators, metalworkers, plane operators, milling machine operators and others.
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