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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishmekanyk(“mechanical”), fromOld Frenchmecanique, fromLatinmechanicus(“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), fromAncient Greekμηχανικός(mēkhanikós,“pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), fromμηχανή(mēkhanḗ,“a machine, contrivance”); seemachine.

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mechanic

  1. (archaic)mechanical; relating tomechanics or the laws ofmotion inphysics
    • 1691,John Ray,The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […],→OCLC:
      […] thesemechanick Philosophers being in no Way able to give an Account thereof from the necessary motion of Matter, unguided by Mind for Ends […]
  2. (archaic)mechanical;precise butlifeless, as ifperformed bymachine
  3. (obsolete) Of or relating to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class ofartisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar; base.

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Noun

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mechanic (pluralmechanics)

  1. (now chiefly historical) Amanual worker; alabourer orartisan.[from 16th c.]
    • 1852 March –1853 September,Charles Dickens,Bleak House, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1853,→OCLC:
      His noble earnestness, his fidelity, his gallant shielding of her, his generous conquest of his own wrong and his own pride for her sake, are simply honourable, manly, and true. Nothing less worthy can be seen through the lustre of such qualities in the commonestmechanic, nothing less worthy can be seen in the best-born gentleman.
    • 1972,Christopher Hill,The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published2016, page77:
      The lower orders were freer than they had ever been – free[…] to choose their own lay preachers,mechanics like the rest of the congregation.
  2. Someone who builds or repairsmachinery, atechnician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of amotor vehicle,aircraft or similar.[from 17th c.]
    Synonym:grease monkey
  3. Adevice,method ormeans; afunction.
    2. (video games, tabletop games) Afunction,rule or otherimplementation that dictatesgameplay; aludeme, afeature.[from 20th c.]
      This game has amechanic where if you run toward a ledge you automatically jump off rather than just falling.
  4. (slang) Ahitman.[from 20th c.]
    • 1976,Newton Thornburg,Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown,→ISBN,page250:
      And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing. Overnight he became the best grunt we had, a real killer, amechanic.
  5. (gambling) Acheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
    Hyponyms:card mechanic,dice mechanic
    • 1969, Bruce Jackson,A Thief's Primer, Macmillan,→ISBN,page91:
      I can do other things beside burglarizing. I'm a first-class crap dealer, I'm a pretty good cardmechanic, pretty good dicemechanic.
    • 1995,Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese,Casino, spoken by Ace (Robert De Niro):
      It was so obvious. I mean, all of Nicky's half-assedmechanics, they were real signal happy.

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Translations

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skilled worker on machinery

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mechanic

  1. alternative form ofmekanyk
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