Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or art of shaping things out of metal.
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- noun The art and craft of shaping
metal .
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- noun the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner
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Examples
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Like numerous other artists from the fields of music, dance and painting, and crafts such as metalworking, embroidery and the like, she saw in Yemenite art an ancient, untainted Jewish culture that had survived from the days of the forefathers.
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Some of the traditional skills taught there such as metalworking, spinning, and weaving would be important in the event of a societal collapse.
SurvivalBlog.com 2010
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In the presence of nitrates or nitrosating compounds, these four compounds all used in metalworking pose an unreasonable risk of cancer.
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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Manganese is often emitted by metalworking plants, Solomon says.
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Because of this risk, TSCA was used to prohibit adding nitrates or nitrosating compounds pdf to metalworking fluids that contain these four compounds.
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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Hanging on a long chain attached to the second-floor ceiling was a large wrought-iron chandelier, so fine and detailed it looked like it had been spun from some magical metalworking spider.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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One goal was to give high school students skills needed for metalworking and other manufacturing jobs.
Industry Puts Heat on Schools to Teach Skills Employers Need James R. Hagerty 2011
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Reuse and ingenuity in Nairobi's metalworking industry - Boing Boing
Boing Boing 2009
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Two hundred thousand machinists, along with their five hundred thousand allies in the metalworking trades, had been defeated in as bloody
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In the presence of nitrates or nitrosating compounds, these four compounds all used in metalworking pose an unreasonable risk of cancer.
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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