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machine shop

machine shop noun: a facility that has machine tools for working with metals or other relatively hard materials, such as some polymers. Various kinds of machine shops make and repair all types of metal objects, from machine tools, dies, and molds to mass-produced parts such as screws, pistons, or gears.

Noun

machine shop (plural machine shops)

  1. A facility that has machine tools for working with metals or other relatively hard materials, such as some polymers. Various kinds of machine shops make and repair all types of metal objects, from machine tools, dies, and molds to mass-produced parts such as screws, pistons, or gears.
    • There is a very large and comprehensive machine shop, beautifully clean and with a wealth of modern machinery - wheel drops, hoists and all the usual running shed maintenance equipment, as well as supersonic^([sic]) axle testers.1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148

machine shop meaning in Tamil and Kannada

machine shop in Tamil

இயந்திரக் கடை, எந்திரக் கூடம், எந்திரப் பட்டறை

machine shop in Kannada

ಯಂತ್ರ ಅಂಗಡಿ

Forms of machine shop

pluralmachine shops

Questions about machine shop

What does machine shop mean?
Machine shop means a facility that has machine tools for working with metals or other relatively hard materials, such as some polymers. Various kinds of machine shops make and repair all types of metal objects, from machine tools, dies, and molds to mass-produced parts such as screws, pistons, or gears.
What is machine shop in Tamil?
Machine shop in Tamil is இயந்திரக் கடை, எந்திரக் கூடம், எந்திரப் பட்டறை. See Machine shop meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is machine shop?
Machine shop is a noun.
What is the plural of machine shop?
The plural of machine shop is machine shops.

Words near machine shop in the dictionary

  1. machine politics
  2. machine room
  3. machine rooms
  4. machine screw
  5. machine screws
  6. machine shop
  7. machine shops
  8. machine taper
  9. machine tapers
  10. machine that goes "ping"
  11. machine tool

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Adapted from Wiktionary: machine shop (page history and authors); machine shop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); machine shop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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