🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

oficina de plásticos

Pronunciation / Transliteration: o.fiˈsi.nɐ dʒi ˈplas.ti.kus

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Plastics workshop/ˈplæs.tɪks ˈwɜːk.ʃɒp/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"As peças personalizadas foram feitas na oficina de plásticos."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A room, building, or manufacturing space equipped for molding, shaping, and fabricating plastic materials.

    "The design prototype was meticulously crafted inside the university plastics workshop."
  2. 2

    An educational or professional hands-on seminar focusing on techniques in plastic craftsmanship and polymer manipulation.

    "She enrolled in a weekend plastics workshop to learn vacuum-forming techniques."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The phrase combines 'plastics' (derived from the Greek 'plastikos', meaning capable of being molded, via Late Latin and French) and 'workshop' (from Old English 'weorc' and 'scopp'). It evolved during the industrial mid-20th century to designate specialized manufacturing and fabrication environments for synthetic polymers.

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