machinery

IPA: mʌʃˈinɝi

The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
The working parts of a machine as a group.
The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
(figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

Examples of "machinery" in Sentences

Democratic machinery is unrelenting in going after Palin.
The Democratic machinery is unrelenting in going after Palin because it is so easy to do.
Milly would, if she could, have stuck her fingers into what she called the machinery of the thing.
This serves to make our savings available for real investment - investment in machinery, R&D, etc.
Seems like focusing on machinery is likely to be less protective than focusing on morality and practice.
A lot of knitting and weaving machinery is controlled by punched cards - so were computers for a long time.
The remarkable thing about the machinery is the extent to which it truly functions in the way you and I imagine or think of a machine.
However, I must admit that I got hung up on “crane fly,” because I thought that was a different name for a Crane (as in machinery), but once I understood, I started back at the beginning and throughly enjoyed the story.
The great rotary presses in the basement of the _Record_ building had filled him with a new enthusiasm: he had painted there, and Sir James had bought at sight, what he called a machinery-scape in the manner of Heinrich Kley.