{
  "id": "smith.metalwork",
  "term": "smith",
  "sense": "metalwork",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 22,
  "arena": "smith",
  "domain": "weight",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a human who makes metal objects by heating metal and shaping it with a tool",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "human.person",
      "metal.element",
      "thermal.heat",
      "device.tool",
      "heat.thermal",
      "make.verb",
      "use.application",
      "object.entity",
      "shape.geometric"
    ],
    "interaction": "the human uses heat to alter metal and applies a tool to shape it, resulting in a new metal object",
    "novel_properties": [
      "crafted metal object",
      "shaped through applied force and heat",
      "persisting composite structure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 1893, Elihu Thomson used a self-designed forging hammer at his Lynn, Massachusetts lab to shape red-hot steel rails for early electric locomotives.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The blades of Damascene swords forged in 13th-century Aleppo retained sharp edges due to layered steel folded 32 times under charcoal-fired heat.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "At Tōhoku University in 2017, researchers heated titanium alloy to 900°C and hammered it into turbine blades for jet engines.",
      "domain": "materials science"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "human.person",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "smith",
    "smithed",
    "smithing",
    "smiths"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete; added missing constitutive components object.entity and shape.geometric which are essential to the output and action described. Definition kept as is because it is"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-smith.metalwork"
}