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Mechanics

noun

The branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference.

The technical aspects of doing something. Synonym: mechanism. "Mechanisms of communication" , "The mechanics of prose style"

Mechanic

noun

A craftsman skilled in operating machine tools. Synonyms: machinist, shop mechanic.

Someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles. Synonyms: auto-mechanic, automobile mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey.

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"Mechanics" Quotes from Famous Books

... neighborhood in July, arriving like a flight of alien unclean birds, and vanished into the north in September as mysteriously as they had appeared. A few of them had been soldiers, others were the errant sons of the poor farmers and rough mechanics of older States, migrating for the adventure of it. One of them gave his name as "Harry Lee," others were known by such names as "Big Ed" or "Shorty." Some carried valises, others had nothing but small bundles containing a clean shirt ...

— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... sixteen years old I left England with my parents and returned to Triest. I was a good mathematician with a keen taste for mechanics. I spent two years in the naval engineering shops at Pola, and I was gazetted as a sub-lieutenant in the engineering branch of the Austrian Navy. My next two years were spent afloat. Although I did not know it, I had already been marked out by my superiors for the Secret Service. My ...

— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone

... engineers not at all. Paying no attention to temperature or to scenery and without waiting for chemical analysis of the air, the space-suited mechanics leaped to their tasks; and in only a little more time than had been mentioned by the chief engineer the hull and giant frame of the super-ship were as staunch as ...

— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith

... "Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. But this Paul says that they be no gods, which are made with hands: so that our craft is in danger to be set at nought. Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" The mandarins know why they encourage the mechanics and merchants to save ...

— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... is no real government in the world. No one wants to work, therefore the mechanics must give their workmen holiday: then they are free and no one can tame them. But if there were a rule that they must do as they are bid, and no one would give them work in other places, this evil would to a large extent be mended. God help us! I fear that here the wish is ...

— A Treatise on Good Works • Dr. Martin Luther

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