Word Meanings - ARTISAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. 2. One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic. This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional

Additional info about word: ARTISAN

1. One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. 2. One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic. This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. Hume. Syn. -- Artificer; artist. -- Artisan, Artist, Artificer. An artist is one who is skilled in some one of the fine arts; an artisan is one who exercises any mechanical employment. A portrait painter is an artist; a sign painter is an artisan, although he may have the taste and skill of an artist. The occupation of the former requires a fine taste and delicate manipulation; that of the latter demands only an ordinary degree of contrivance and imitative power. An artificer is one who requires power of contrivance and adaptation in the exercise of his profession. The word suggest neither the idea of mechanical conformity to rule which attaches to the term artisan, nor the ideas of refinement and of peculiar skill which belong to the term artist.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARTISAN)

• Hand
• Laborer
• workman
• operative
• artisan
• agency
• influence
• index
• Mechanic
• Artisan
• craftsman
• artificer

Related words: (words related to ARTISAN)

• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• MECHANICS
  That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies. Note: That part of mechanics which considers the action of forces in producing rest or equilibrium is called statics; that which relates to such action
• MECHANICIAN
  One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• INDEXICALLY
  In the manner of an index.
• OPERATIVE
  A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.
• LABORER
  One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
• CRAFTSMANSHIP
  The work of a craftsman.
• MECHANICAL
  1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• WORKMAN
  1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
• AGENCY
  1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
• WORKMANLY
  Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
• MECHANICALLY
  In a mechanical manner.
• INFLUENCER
  One who, or that which, influences.
• WORKMANLIKE
  Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
• CRAFTSMAN
  One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
• ARTISAN
  1. One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. 2. One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic. This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional
• MECHANICO-CHEMICAL
  Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• TELEMECHANIC
  Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. --Tel`e*mech"a*nism , n.
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• INTERAGENCY
  Intermediate agency.
• SUBINDEX
  A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.
• AEROMECHANIC
  A mechanic or mechanician expert in the art and practice of aëronautics.
• SUBAGENCY
  A subordinate agency.
• PARTISAN
  1. An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. "The violence of a partisan." Macaulay. Both sides had their partisans in the colony. Jefferson. The commander of a body of detached
• UNOPERATIVE
  Producing no effect; inoperative. South.