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.
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.