English words for 'a carpenter'
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verb
noun
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
noun
noun
- (countable) A carpenter’s workshop.
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- (uncountable) The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures.
- (uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
- (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining wood, timber, or lumber; woodworking.
noun
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture
- (uncountable) Working with wood.
- (figurative, by extension) A place of concealment or obscurity.
- (uncountable, countable) Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
- (soccer, rugby) The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.
noun
- A person employed to use this kind of woodworking tool.
- (mechanical engineering) A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
- (woodworking) A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
adj
noun
- a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood
- a person who likes to join groups
- A woodworking machine used to prepare edges of wooden elements to join to other wood pieces.
- (historical) Synonym of hensopper.
- A maker of wooden furniture or fittings.
- A person who joins societies or organizations.
- A thing that joins two separate items, e.g. software to connect video or music clips.
noun
noun
noun
- a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances
- (slang, medicine, somewhat derogatory) A urologist.
- (British, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
- One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
- A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
verb
noun
- a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
- synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction
- someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
- a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
- (photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.
- (slang) A drug dealer or user.
- (Philippines, by extension) Someone who is often paid that helps a customer cut through red tape, especially for government processes or applications.
- (journalism) A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.
- (criminal justice, law) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit.
- (real estate, US) A fixer-upper.
- Agent noun of fix: one who, or that which, fixes.
- A person who serves as an agent to arrange for a desired result, perhaps by improper and/or unlawful means.
noun
- a worker who attaches something by nailing it
- A piece of dimensional lumber and/or plywood secured to the deck or wall which provides a receiving medium for the fasteners. (Sometimes referred to as blocking.)
- One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
- A nailgun.
- One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.
noun
- a worker who inserts and hammers rivets
- a machine for driving rivets
- (metalworking, construction) A person whose job is to rivet.
- (specifically, for solid rivets) A gunner; the member of a riveting team who uses a rivet gun, fitted with a rivet set which matches the shape of the factory head of a solid rivet, to impact that rivet (which is heated if necessary to soften it), while the bucker (or holder-up) holds a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of the rivet, upsetting it to form the field head. If the rivets have to be heated, the team will also include a cook and a catcher; see rivet for more details.
- A tool used to fix rivets.
noun
verb
noun
noun
noun
- a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
- someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles
- (gambling) A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
- (now chiefly historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
- (video games, tabletop games) A function, rule or other implementation that dictates gameplay; a ludeme, a feature.
- A device, method or means; a function.
- Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
- (slang) A hitman.
adj
noun
- (US) A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
- A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
- A person who makes frames for paintings.
- A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
- A person who writes a new law.
- (Internet) A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.
- (historical, US politics, sometimes capitalized, usually in the plural) Any of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- someone who writes a new law or plan
- someone who makes frames (as for pictures)
noun
- One who assembles the frames of a ship.
- A surfer.
- (basketball) A basketball player who excels at rebounds.
- (nautical) One who rides on the boards of a log canoe in order to balance it.
- A chess player.
- A record producer; one who works a mixing board.
- (nautical) A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines
noun
- a worker who makes metal castings
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
verb
- fail utterly; collapse
- sink below the surface
- stumble and nearly fall
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
noun
verb
noun
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
noun
- (countable) A carpenter’s workshop.
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- (uncountable) The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures.
- (uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
- (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining wood, timber, or lumber; woodworking.
noun
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture
- (uncountable) Working with wood.
- (figurative, by extension) A place of concealment or obscurity.
- (uncountable, countable) Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
- (soccer, rugby) The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.
noun
- A person employed to use this kind of woodworking tool.
- (mechanical engineering) A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
- (woodworking) A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
adj
noun
- a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood
- a person who likes to join groups
- A woodworking machine used to prepare edges of wooden elements to join to other wood pieces.
- (historical) Synonym of hensopper.
- A maker of wooden furniture or fittings.
- A person who joins societies or organizations.
- A thing that joins two separate items, e.g. software to connect video or music clips.
noun
noun
noun
- a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances
- (slang, medicine, somewhat derogatory) A urologist.
- (British, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
- One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
- A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
verb
noun
- a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
- synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction
- someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
- a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
- (photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.
- (slang) A drug dealer or user.
- (Philippines, by extension) Someone who is often paid that helps a customer cut through red tape, especially for government processes or applications.
- (journalism) A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.
- (criminal justice, law) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit.
- (real estate, US) A fixer-upper.
- Agent noun of fix: one who, or that which, fixes.
- A person who serves as an agent to arrange for a desired result, perhaps by improper and/or unlawful means.
noun
- a worker who attaches something by nailing it
- A piece of dimensional lumber and/or plywood secured to the deck or wall which provides a receiving medium for the fasteners. (Sometimes referred to as blocking.)
- One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
- A nailgun.
- One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.
noun
- a worker who inserts and hammers rivets
- a machine for driving rivets
- (metalworking, construction) A person whose job is to rivet.
- (specifically, for solid rivets) A gunner; the member of a riveting team who uses a rivet gun, fitted with a rivet set which matches the shape of the factory head of a solid rivet, to impact that rivet (which is heated if necessary to soften it), while the bucker (or holder-up) holds a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of the rivet, upsetting it to form the field head. If the rivets have to be heated, the team will also include a cook and a catcher; see rivet for more details.
- A tool used to fix rivets.
noun
verb
noun
noun
noun
- a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
- someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles
- (gambling) A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
- (now chiefly historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
- (video games, tabletop games) A function, rule or other implementation that dictates gameplay; a ludeme, a feature.
- A device, method or means; a function.
- Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
- (slang) A hitman.
adj
noun
- (US) A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
- A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
- A person who makes frames for paintings.
- A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
- A person who writes a new law.
- (Internet) A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.
- (historical, US politics, sometimes capitalized, usually in the plural) Any of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- someone who writes a new law or plan
- someone who makes frames (as for pictures)
noun
- One who assembles the frames of a ship.
- A surfer.
- (basketball) A basketball player who excels at rebounds.
- (nautical) One who rides on the boards of a log canoe in order to balance it.
- A chess player.
- A record producer; one who works a mixing board.
- (nautical) A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines
noun
- a worker who makes metal castings
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
verb
- fail utterly; collapse
- sink below the surface
- stumble and nearly fall
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
verb
noun
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
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