English to English
machine
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noun (n)
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- an efficient person(noun.person)Example:
The boxer was a magnificent fighting machine.
source: wordnet30 - an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently(noun.group)Example:
The war machine.
source: wordnet30 - a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- a group that controls the activities of a political party(noun.group)Example:
He was endorsed by the Democratic machine.
source: wordnet30 - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery(verb.creation)source: wordnet30
- make by machinery(verb.creation)source: wordnet30
- To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.(verb)source: webster1913