machine

IPA: mʌʃˈin

noun

  • A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
  • (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
  • (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
  • (computing) A computer.
  • (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
  • Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
  • (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
  • (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
  • (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
  • (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
  • (obsolete) A bathing machine.

verb

  • To make by machinery.
  • To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.
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Examples of "machine" in Sentences

  • The machine was actuated.
  • The machine was partible.
  • The machine was noiseless.
  • The machine simulates the subject machine.
  • Durability is the hallmark of this machine.
  • The tool dares the virus to enter the machine.
  • Speedy machine could bridge classic and quantum computing.
  • He argued that we need convivial tools as opposed to machines.
  • Is the machine designed to be a machine perpetually in motion
  • The machine tool operator actuates the gate control to close the sliding gate.

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