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. A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
3. An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
4. A computer.
5. 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. The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
9. (obsolete) Penis.
10. 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.

Concepts

machine

engine

motor

apparatus

device

machinery

appliance

mechanism

instrument

tool

automobile

car

gear

spring

gadget

mechanical device

auto

mechanical

equipment

set

combine

processor

unit

system

manufacture

typewriter

implement

utensil

lathe

motorcar

simple machine

political machine

contrivance

machine tool

mission

generator

gang

party

printing press

rotary press

print

type

hardware failure

computer

MC

mc

machine-made

locomotive

train

camera

device.

pestle

enginery

movement

workings

works

rack

work

small machine

bench

mill

moshe

female genitalia

vehicle

dispositive

means

powerhouse

tractor

Pronounced as (IPA)

/məˈʃiːn/

Etymology

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

Sentences

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