machine

Meaning

Noun

1. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
2. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
3. (abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
4. A computer.
5. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
6. 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.
7. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
8. (US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
9. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
10. (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.
11. (obsolete) A bathing machine.

Verb

1. To make by machinery.
2. To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.

Synonyms

engine

motor

apparatus

device

machinery

appliance

mechanism

instrument

tool

car

🚗

automobile

mechanical

mechanical device

spring

auto

equipment

gadget

gear

⚙️

manufacture

combine

contrivance

implement

lathe

machine tool

motorcar

processor

set

system

typewriter

unit

utensil

political machine

simple machine

MC

movement

party

🥳

pestle

powerhouse

print

printing press

rotary press

rack

small machine

computer

💻

bench

camera

📷

tractor

🚜

train

🚋

type

moshe

Translations

machine

máquina

Maschine

macchina

máquina

machine

μηχανή

màquina

machina

appareil

aparato

makine

Apparat

apparaat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/məˈʃiːn/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.

Sentences

No one near the remote machine you could ring ?

He went to the vending machine and bought a coffee .

Classification is , among other things , a discipline of machine learning .

He graduated from Marietta College , and founded the Newark Machine Works in Newark , Ohio .