a professional mason

métier [metje]

1. masculine noun

   a. ( = travail) job ; (terme administratif) occupation ; (commercial) trade ; (artisanal) craft ; (intellectuel) profession

• métier manuel manual job

• il a fait tous les métiers he's done all sorts of jobs

• les métiers du livre the publishing industry

• homme de métier professional

• il est plombier de son métier he is a plumber by trade

• il est du métier he is in the trade

• il connaît son métier he knows his job

   b. ( = technique) skill ; ( = expérience) experience

• avoir du métier to have practical experience

2. compounds

► métier à tisser loom

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nom masculin

1) ( activité rémunérée) job; ( intellectuel) profession; ( manuel) trade; ( artisanal) craft

2) ( rôle) job

3) ( expérience)

4) ( objet) loom

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1) (= profession) job, trade

2) (= technique, expérience) skill, technique

3) (métier à tisser) loom

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métier ⇒ Les métiers et les professions nm

1 ( activité rémunérée) job; ( intellectuel) profession; ( manuel) trade; ( artisanal) craft; c'est mon métier (de faire ça)! it's my job!; il a fait tous les métiers he's tried his hand at everything, he's done all kinds of jobs; choisir un métier to decide on a job ou trade ou profession; apprendre un métier ( manuel) to learn a trade; ils sortent de l'école sans métier they come out of college without any practical skills; entrer dans le métier ( manuel) to enter the trade; bien connaître son métier to be good at one's job, to know one's stuff○; il est cuisinier/coiffeur de son métier he's a cook/hairdresser by trade; il est chirurgien/juriste/potier de son métier he is a surgeon/lawyer/potter by profession; un maçon de métier a professional mason; terme de métier specialized term; les gens du métier the professionals, people in the business; pour faire une bonne traduction, il faut être du métier it takes a professional translator to do a good translation; ne t'inquiète pas, elle est du métier don't worry, she knows what she's doing; le métier des armes the army; choisir le métier des armes to decide on a military career;

2 ( rôle) job; faire son métier de reine/mère to do one's job as queen/a mother;

3 ( expérience) avoir du métier to be experienced; manquer de métier to lack experience; avoir 20 ans de métier to have 20 years' experience; c'est le métier qui rentre! you learn by your mistakes!; le métier rentre? are you getting the hang of it?;

4 ( objet) loom; métier à tisser weaving loom; remettre qch sur le métier fig to rework sth.

faire le plus vieux métier du monde euph to practise^GB the oldest profession.

[metje] nom masculin

1. [profession] trade

2. [expérience] skill, experience

3. [machine]

avoir quelque chose sur le métier (figuré) to have something lined up

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de métier locution adjectivale

[homme, femme, armée] professional

[argot] technical

[technique] of the trade

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de métier locution adverbiale

avoir 15 ans de métier to have been in the job ou business for 15 years

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de son métier locution adverbiale

être boulanger/journaliste de son métier to be a baker/journalist by trade

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du métier locution adjectivale

demande à quelqu'un du métier ask a professional ou an expert

1. adj ( principale) main

nautical term albero m maestro main mast

muro m maestro loadbearing wall

2. m master

music, painting maestro, master

colpo m da maestro masterstroke

3. m, maestra f teacher

maestro di nuoto swimming teacher or instructor

maestro di sci ski instructor

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maestro agg.

1 (principale) main: muro maestro, main wall; strada maestra, highroad (o main road) // (mar.): albero maestro, mainmast; vela maestra, mainsail

2 (abile, magistrale) masterly, skilful: colpo maestro, masterly stroke; con mano maestra, skilfully (o in a masterly manner)

◆ s.m.

1 master, teacher; (di scuola) (primary-school) teacher, schoolteacher, schoolmaster: maestro di ballo, dancing-master (o dancing-teacher); maestro elementare, primary-schoolteacher; maestro di scherma, fencing-master; maestro di nuoto, swimming teacher (o instructor); è il maestro della seconda classe, he is the teacher of the second-year class // il Maestro, (Bibbia) the Master // maestro di cerimonie, Master of Ceremonies // Gran Maestro, (di ordine cavalleresco) Grand Master // il dolore è maestro di virtù, sorrow teaches virtue // l'esercizio è buon maestro, (prov.) practice makes perfect

2 (uomo abile, dotto) master, expert, past master: è maestro nell'arte del pennello, he is a master of the brush; è un maestro nell'arte della conversazione, he is a past master in the art of conversation; è un maestro d'eleganza, he is a model (o leader) of fashion; è maestro di inganni, he's a past master in deceit // lavoro da maestro, masterwork // colpo da maestro, masterstroke // non tutti possono essere maestri, all men can't be masters // nessuno nasce maestro, all trades must be learnt // farla da maestro, darsi arie da maestro, to play the teacher

3 (operaio specializzato) master: maestro muratore, master mason; maestro d'ascia, carpenter; (mar.) shipwright

4 (mus.) (musicista di professione, diplomato), (professional) musician; master; (titolo riferito a un musicista affermato) maestro* // maestro del coro, chorus master // maestro di cappella, chapel-master // maestro concertatore e direttore d'orchestra, conductor

5 (pitt., scult.) master // i Maestri del Rinascimento, the masters of the Renaissance

6 (nord-ovest) northwest; (maestrale) mistral, northwest wind.

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1. sm/f

1) (anche: maestro di scuola o elementare) primary Brit o grade school Am teacher

2) (fig : esperto) expert

2. sm

1) (artigiano) master

2) Mus maestro

3) (vento) northwest wind

3. agg

(di grande abilità) masterly, skilful Brit, skillful Am

- maestra d'asilo

- maestro di ballo

- maestro di cerimonie

- maestro d'orchestra

- maestro di piano

- maestro di scherma

- maestro di sci

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sostantivo maschile

1) (insegnante) teacher, master

2) scol. (insegnante elementare) primary school teacher, schoolteacher

3) (modello)

4) (esperto) master, expert

5) (grande artista) master

6) mus. (titolo)

1) (abile)

2) (principale)

3) mar.

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maestro

/ma'εstro/ ⇒ 18

I sostantivo m.

 1 (insegnante) teacher, master; maestro di ballo dancing teacher o master; maestro del coro choirmaster; maestro di sci ski(ing) instructor

 2 scol. (insegnante elementare) primary school teacher, schoolteacher; maestro d'asilo nursery (school) teacher

 3 (modello) essere un maestro di eleganza to be a model of fashion

 4 (esperto) master, expert; essere (un) maestro nel fare to be a master at doing; un lavoro da maestro a masterwork; un colpo da maestro a masterstroke

 5 (grande artista) master

 6 mus. (titolo) il maestro Abbado Maestro Abbado

II aggettivo

 1 (abile) mano -a master-hand

 2 (principale) strada -a main road, high road, highway BE

 3 mar. albero maestro mainmast

IDIOMS

nessuno nasce maestro prov. all trades must be learnt

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COMPOUNDS

maestro di cappella kapellmeister; maestro di cerimonie master of ceremonies, emcee.

SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering

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Although known as Clement in his professional life, his baptism at Asby and his death were registered under the name of Joseph Clemmet. He worked as a slater until the age of 23, but his interest in mechanics led him to spend much of his spare time in the local blacksmith's shop. By studying books on mechanics borrowed from his cousin, a watchmaker, he taught himself and with the aid of the village blacksmith made his own lathe. By 1805 he was able to give up the slating trade and find employment as a mechanic in a small factory at Kirkby Stephen. From there he moved to Carlisle for two years, and then to Glasgow where, while working as a turner, he took lessons in drawing; he had a natural talent and soon became an expert draughtsman. From about 1809 he was employed by Leys, Mason \& Co. of Aberdeen designing and making power looms. For this work he built a screw-cutting lathe and continued his self-education. At the end of 1813, having saved about £100, he made his way to London, where he soon found employment as a mechanic and draughtsman. Within a few months he was engaged by Joseph Bramah, and after a trial period a formal agreement dated 1 April 1814 was made by which Clement was to be Chief Draughtsman and Superintendent of Bramah's Pimlico works for five years. However, Bramah died in December 1814 and after his sons took over the business it was agreed that Clement should leave before the expiry of the five-year period. He soon found employment as Chief Draughtsman with Henry Maudslay \& Co. By 1817 Clement had saved about £500, which enabled him to establish his own business at Prospect Place, Newington Butts, as a mechanical draughtsman and manufacturer of high-class machinery. For this purpose he built lathes for his own use and invented various improvements in their detailed design. In 1827 he designed and built a facing lathe which incorporated an ingenious system of infinitely variable belt gearing. He had also built his own planing machine by 1820 and another, much larger one in 1825. In 1828 Clement began making fluted taps and dies and standardized the screw threads, thus anticipating on a small scale the national standards later established by Sir Joseph Whitworth. Because of his reputation for first-class workmanship, Clement was in the 1820s engaged by Charles Babbage to carry out the construction of his first Difference Engine.

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