Drehmaschine
German, noun/ˈdʁeːmaʃinə/
Drehmaschine is spelled D-R-E-H-M-A-S-C-H-I-N-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drehmaschine is a German feminine noun meaning “lathe (machine tool used to shape a piece of material)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Werkzeugmaschine, bei der ein rotierendes Werkstück durch Spanen mittels eines scharfen Werkzeugs bearbeitet…”.
What does Drehmaschine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelathe (machine tool used to shape a piece of material)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Werkzeugmaschine, bei der ein rotierendes Werkstück durch Spanen mittels eines scharfen Werkzeugs bearbeitet wird
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Drehmaschine
- Drehmaschinen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Drehmaschine?
- /ˈdʁeːmaʃinə/
- [ˈdʁeːmaˌʃiːnə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Drehmaschine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Drehmaschine in German?
Drehmaschine appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).