Definition

Noun: A person who is skilled in the manufacturing, crafting, or repairing of tools, often using precision machinery and techniques.

Usage

The term "toolmaker" specifically refers to a skilled craftsperson or machinist whose primary occupation is the creation and maintenance of tools, dies, jigs, and other implements used in manufacturing. It denotes a high level of precision and expertise.

Examples

• The factory hired an experienced toolmaker to design a new set of molds for the production line.
• As a master toolmaker, her attention to detail ensured every component met exact specifications.
• The workshop relies on its toolmaker to repair and calibrate all the specialized equipment.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use: In a broader, sometimes metaphorical sense, "toolmaker" can refer to a creator or innovator who develops fundamental methods or instruments for a field.
  • He is considered the toolmaker of modern genetic engineering, having developed several key laboratory techniques.

Variants and Related Words

• Toolmaking (n): The art, trade, or process of making tools.
  • Precision toolmaking is essential for the aerospace industry.
• Tool-and-die maker (n): A specific type of toolmaker who specializes in creating and maintaining dies, molds, jigs, and fixtures.

Synonyms

• Machinist: A person who operates machinery or is skilled in machine work, often overlapping with toolmaking.
• Artificer: A skilled craftsman or inventor. (More formal/archaic)
• Craftsman: A worker skilled in a particular craft, which can include toolmaking.

Antonyms

• Apprentice: A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer.
• Operator: A person who uses tools or machines, rather than designing or making them.

Noun

1. someone skilled in making or repairing tools