machinery
IPA: mʌʃˈinɝi
noun
- 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
- The haulage machinery is also used.
- The machinery in the mill was installed.
- They had to demolish using the machinery.
- He clambered over the bridge's machinery.
- He was semiskilled in oilers of machinery.
- It is an ashen waste filled with broken machinery.
- Democratic machinery is unrelenting in going after Palin.
- Much of the machinery in the mill is demonstrated working.
- The mine was the victim of sabotage of equipment and machinery.
- Carefully maintained machinery was referred to with terms of endearment.
- Bigger firms work in the fields of machinery, footwear and the floor industry.
- 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.