Definition of machine in English:

machine

noun məˈʃiːnməˈʃin

1An apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task.
a fax machine
Example sentencesExamples
- The fact that machines perform repetitive tasks better than humans is widely recognized.
- If you hear the hard disk working furiously and the green light on the front of the computer is very busy, then the machine is performing a task.
- I find that he cannot now perform the machine programming functions which mainly occupied him during his twenty-two years with his former employer.
- In 1782, Watt developed a rotary engine that could turn a shaft and drive machinery to power the machines to spin and weave cotton cloth.
- A programme of installation of mechanical grading machines has taken place and machines are functioning in all the major export approved plants.
- Rapid-fire calls over the radio were heard as all of the Apaches performed their assigned tasks like a well-oiled machine.
- But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would wilfully seize power.
- The basic idea of grid computing is several machines working together to amplify their processing power.
- What are the ultimate limits to the information processing power of computing machines?
- Turing proposed that a certain class of abstract machines could perform any ‘mechanical’ computing procedure.
- Instead they pumped the water which turned the wheels which powered the machines.
- It's inherently wasteful to have two-ton machines carrying a single person to the store for a quart of milk.
- For large lawn areas the use of mechanically powered aeration or slitting machines is more practical.
- They all knew the possibilities of tying together low cost machines to create a super-computing power and had seen it done before.
- A hum was heard from the machine as it powered up to do the task it was asked to do, followed by a soft whirring sound, as it digested the bike's current condition.
- The task now is to put together miracle machines in a hurry for a wireless industry that's bet the ranch on 3G.
- Throughout history, people have been building machines that can perform tasks better than humans.
- Waves over 25 ft high destroyed homes along the Florida coast and a nursing home lost all power meaning desperately-needed oxygen machines could not function.
- The beets are cut up mechanically into slices in machines resembling giant food processors.
- In setting up the machine for a given task, boxes are connected together so that the desired set of fundamental processes is executed.
Synonyms
apparatus, appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, device, unit, contraption, contrivance, gadget, mechanism, engine, motor, lever, pulley
informal gizmo
1. 1.1with modifier A coin-operated dispenser.
  a cigarette machine
  Example sentencesExamples
  An overwhelming majority voted for punitive cash machine charges which will hit hardest their poorest customers, those living in rural locations and people on a pension.
  The party supported distributing pokie machine money in local communities, but wanted some set aside for a central fund to aid problem gambling.
  She came to him, literally in a daydream, when he was bored, frustrated and uninspired, working at his father's coffee machine repair shop in Venice.
  To use the electric shock machine cost one penny, but friends would join hands so that a number of people could all experience the shock for the same penny.
  Obviously stick with banks offering free cash machine access, and here in Scotland we are fortunate because both the Scottish banks have pledged to maintain a fully free service.
  Well after last week's spooky coffee machine imbroglio, when both my coffee maker at work, and the one at home, blew up on the same day… it was time to buy replacements.
  Its automatic teller machine network, which currently has 30 machines, is expected to be doubled by March 2000.
  The company has also provided communications equipment to the Sofia Underground and the Borika national automatic teller machine system.
  So how do we apply for a grant to get a nicotine patch dispenser machine fitted in the bus shelter?
  New groups and cliques are formed due to coffee machine tactics, coffee drinkers with similar tactics go onto form their own splinter groups and stay within that group for life.
  Banks, building societies and cash machine controllers were also alerted to the error to make sure customers would have enough money to tide them over for Saturday and Sunday.
  If candy machine builders get too gloomy, they may stop building machines.
  This could prove extremely useful in these days of cash machine charges, where it helps to belong to more than one bank and gain free access to more than one bank's chain of cash machines.
  While we're so busy with war and beating off drug use, no one seems to worry about the smaller issues like ATM machine surcharges.
  It's an equation the Carr Government hopes to change by upping the tax on bigger clubs, which generate the vast majority of poker machine revenue.
  Most cash machine robberies are thought to take place after thieves stand close enough to their victim to see their PIN number and how much money they are withdrawing.
  Mr Davis also suggests that some banks have been guilty of ‘profiteering’ through cash machine charges, and we can only agree.
  We never ate at Monk's, but we did hang out at the same 7-11 pinball machine corner ever day.
  This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year.
  Everything from social engineering to fun explosives to Coke machine hacks can be found there.
2. 1.2technical Any device that transmits a force or directs its application.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The application of useful machines and tools was thus equated with not just material progress but cultural development.
  Physicist Donald Simanek talked about perpetual motion machines and other unworkable devices.
  In farming, as elsewhere, these forces replace people with machines, a process that increases the minimum efficient size of farm.
  The Enigma machine is an electro-mechanical device for scrambling plain text invented by the Germans in 1918.
  It seems these little solar powered machines have applications that reach far beyond the motor car.
3. 1.3 An efficient and well-organized group of powerful people.
  the party's fund-raising is helping it to build a formidable political machine
  Example sentencesExamples
  The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government.
  West Virginia once had some of the nation's mightiest political machines.
  The Prime Minister, therefore, was the apex of centralized, powerful, political and administrative machines.
  His attacks on elite perquisites, and his imperious treatment of subordinates, made him anathema to the powerful party machine.
  Now, both political parties from the top are controlled as party machines by Project Democracy, through the Congress.
  Suddenly the powerful propaganda machine of the big media concerns was no longer able to achieve the desired affect.
  The AFL-CIO is planning an effort modeled on its powerful get-out-the-vote political machine.
  The Vancouver event is known for being more grass roots than Toronto's slick show, which morphed into an important marketing machine years ago.
  An alliance of the most powerful and violent military machines in the world will never bring peace.
  He, within that period of time, defeated all of the enemies of France, and built the most powerful military machine in Europe, on the land.
  Big city political machines thrive on federal grants and state-granted powers.
  These bankers, and the interests they are associated with, control the Republican and Democratic Party election machines.
  Twenty million people there face having their lives, homes and families blasted to smithereens by the most powerful military machine in the world.
  The government has only been able to finance its military machine by slashing spending to education and other essential services.
  That is why marketers yearn for word of mouth publicity and powerful media machines long for becoming the talk of the town.
  Local government was controlled by one of the most powerful political machines in the nation, and that machine was largely the province of one man.
  For all the claims of ‘control freakery’, the evidence seems to reveal a government machine influenced by a powerful sense of things being out of control.
  The army of bus drivers that keep the wheels of the county's public transport machine turning is in need of fresh recruits.
  The Israelis, they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world.
  He means the military machine of NATO, multinational companies, and institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
  Synonyms
  organization, system, structure, arrangement, agency, machinery
  informal set-up
4. 1.4 A person who acts with the mechanical efficiency of a machine.
  comedians are more than just laugh machines
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was no stopping the laughing machine and people laughed till their eyes watered and jaws literally ached.
  You have in your command four of the most powerful fighting machines ever created, the Genohunter warrior.

verb məˈʃiːnməˈʃin

[with object]

Make or operate on with a machine.
the cylinder covers are waiting to be machined
Example sentencesExamples
- The bottom-water sampler was a slender, reinforced rod with finely machined discs of brass at either end.
- In the beginning, multi-faceted objects were machined from solid aluminum and hand-polished by sculptor John Noestheden.
- The coupler body and the fiber mount were machined from a 1.5 inch diameter brass bar.
- Of course brass is easy to machine, but the tooling is first-rate.
- The head tube is finished off with the all requisite reinforcing to prevent flaring and a very cool logo machined into it, an open gusset to the down tube and that's about it.
- At that time much of the manufacturing equipment needed could not be imported so Scott Bros built the lathes needed for machining the grenades.
- The kit is complete with cutters, handles, extension rods, a breaker bar, brass laps, facing cutters and other nicely machined hunks of metal.
- Prior to fracturing, the boltholes are machined in Operation 20.
- Kalyani's Bharat Forge - which supplies high value added products like machined crankshafts and connecting rods - already has a niche in the Chinese market.
- It involved breaking down a complex manufacturing job into small, easily repeated operations using parts machined so closely as to be interchangeable.
- The company operates one of the largest laser machining centers in the world, according to Jeff Miller, laser R & D manager.
- It's a big step, as OEMs traditionally have machined connecting rods themselves.
- The reel is a six spoke design, but the spokes are in fact the aluminium left after the machining process, and there are 12 weight saving holes machined into the edge of the spool.
- At one end, a ball release notch has been precisely machined, at a specific distance from the other end, which is tapered to allow the ball run off.
- Made of brass, it was machined specifically to each caliber chambered in the 99 so that feeding cartridges was smooth, flawless and in a straight line.
- It's got a surgical steel, triple-tumbler combination lock machined right into the kneecap, just set right into the sucker.
- Additional parts may be machined, or ordered from a catalogue, but these expenses are capped, and the final product can't exceed a certain weight or size.

Origin

Mid 16th century (originally denoting a structure): from French, via Latin from Doric Greek makhana (Greek mēkhanē, from mēkhos 'contrivance').

mechanical from Late Middle English:
Both mechanical and machine (mid 16th century) go back to Greek mēkhanikē ‘machine’. Originally mechanical and mechanic (Late Middle English) were more or less interchangeable, but nowadays the first primarily means ‘operated by or relating to a machine’ or ‘done without thought, automatic’, and the second refers to a skilled worker. An old meaning of both is ‘a manual labourer or artisan’, as in ‘A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, / That work for bread, upon Athenian stalls’ from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (rude here meaning ‘unsophisticated’).

Rhymes

Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean

Definition of machine in US English:

machine

nounməˈʃinməˈSHēn

1An apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task.
a fax machine
a shredding machine
Example sentencesExamples
- The task now is to put together miracle machines in a hurry for a wireless industry that's bet the ranch on 3G.
- If you hear the hard disk working furiously and the green light on the front of the computer is very busy, then the machine is performing a task.
- It's inherently wasteful to have two-ton machines carrying a single person to the store for a quart of milk.
- The basic idea of grid computing is several machines working together to amplify their processing power.
- Instead they pumped the water which turned the wheels which powered the machines.
- But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would wilfully seize power.
- In setting up the machine for a given task, boxes are connected together so that the desired set of fundamental processes is executed.
- Turing proposed that a certain class of abstract machines could perform any ‘mechanical’ computing procedure.
- For large lawn areas the use of mechanically powered aeration or slitting machines is more practical.
- The fact that machines perform repetitive tasks better than humans is widely recognized.
- The beets are cut up mechanically into slices in machines resembling giant food processors.
- I find that he cannot now perform the machine programming functions which mainly occupied him during his twenty-two years with his former employer.
- What are the ultimate limits to the information processing power of computing machines?
- They all knew the possibilities of tying together low cost machines to create a super-computing power and had seen it done before.
- Waves over 25 ft high destroyed homes along the Florida coast and a nursing home lost all power meaning desperately-needed oxygen machines could not function.
- In 1782, Watt developed a rotary engine that could turn a shaft and drive machinery to power the machines to spin and weave cotton cloth.
- A hum was heard from the machine as it powered up to do the task it was asked to do, followed by a soft whirring sound, as it digested the bike's current condition.
- Rapid-fire calls over the radio were heard as all of the Apaches performed their assigned tasks like a well-oiled machine.
- Throughout history, people have been building machines that can perform tasks better than humans.
- A programme of installation of mechanical grading machines has taken place and machines are functioning in all the major export approved plants.
Synonyms
apparatus, appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, device, unit, contraption, contrivance, gadget, mechanism, engine, motor, lever, pulley
1. 1.1with modifier A coin-operated dispenser.
  a candy machine
  Example sentencesExamples
  Banks, building societies and cash machine controllers were also alerted to the error to make sure customers would have enough money to tide them over for Saturday and Sunday.
  To use the electric shock machine cost one penny, but friends would join hands so that a number of people could all experience the shock for the same penny.
  She came to him, literally in a daydream, when he was bored, frustrated and uninspired, working at his father's coffee machine repair shop in Venice.
  This could prove extremely useful in these days of cash machine charges, where it helps to belong to more than one bank and gain free access to more than one bank's chain of cash machines.
  It's an equation the Carr Government hopes to change by upping the tax on bigger clubs, which generate the vast majority of poker machine revenue.
  Well after last week's spooky coffee machine imbroglio, when both my coffee maker at work, and the one at home, blew up on the same day… it was time to buy replacements.
  An overwhelming majority voted for punitive cash machine charges which will hit hardest their poorest customers, those living in rural locations and people on a pension.
  We never ate at Monk's, but we did hang out at the same 7-11 pinball machine corner ever day.
  The party supported distributing pokie machine money in local communities, but wanted some set aside for a central fund to aid problem gambling.
  Mr Davis also suggests that some banks have been guilty of ‘profiteering’ through cash machine charges, and we can only agree.
  Most cash machine robberies are thought to take place after thieves stand close enough to their victim to see their PIN number and how much money they are withdrawing.
  This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year.
  New groups and cliques are formed due to coffee machine tactics, coffee drinkers with similar tactics go onto form their own splinter groups and stay within that group for life.
  While we're so busy with war and beating off drug use, no one seems to worry about the smaller issues like ATM machine surcharges.
  Its automatic teller machine network, which currently has 30 machines, is expected to be doubled by March 2000.
  Obviously stick with banks offering free cash machine access, and here in Scotland we are fortunate because both the Scottish banks have pledged to maintain a fully free service.
  The company has also provided communications equipment to the Sofia Underground and the Borika national automatic teller machine system.
  Everything from social engineering to fun explosives to Coke machine hacks can be found there.
  If candy machine builders get too gloomy, they may stop building machines.
  So how do we apply for a grant to get a nicotine patch dispenser machine fitted in the bus shelter?
2. 1.2technical Any device that transmits a force or directs its application.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The application of useful machines and tools was thus equated with not just material progress but cultural development.
  The Enigma machine is an electro-mechanical device for scrambling plain text invented by the Germans in 1918.
  In farming, as elsewhere, these forces replace people with machines, a process that increases the minimum efficient size of farm.
  It seems these little solar powered machines have applications that reach far beyond the motor car.
  Physicist Donald Simanek talked about perpetual motion machines and other unworkable devices.
3. 1.3 An efficient and well-organized group of powerful people.
  his campaign illustrated the continuing strength of a powerful political machine
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Prime Minister, therefore, was the apex of centralized, powerful, political and administrative machines.
  His attacks on elite perquisites, and his imperious treatment of subordinates, made him anathema to the powerful party machine.
  West Virginia once had some of the nation's mightiest political machines.
  The army of bus drivers that keep the wheels of the county's public transport machine turning is in need of fresh recruits.
  The Israelis, they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world.
  The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government.
  He, within that period of time, defeated all of the enemies of France, and built the most powerful military machine in Europe, on the land.
  The AFL-CIO is planning an effort modeled on its powerful get-out-the-vote political machine.
  That is why marketers yearn for word of mouth publicity and powerful media machines long for becoming the talk of the town.
  Now, both political parties from the top are controlled as party machines by Project Democracy, through the Congress.
  An alliance of the most powerful and violent military machines in the world will never bring peace.
  He means the military machine of NATO, multinational companies, and institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
  These bankers, and the interests they are associated with, control the Republican and Democratic Party election machines.
  Local government was controlled by one of the most powerful political machines in the nation, and that machine was largely the province of one man.
  Suddenly the powerful propaganda machine of the big media concerns was no longer able to achieve the desired affect.
  Big city political machines thrive on federal grants and state-granted powers.
  The government has only been able to finance its military machine by slashing spending to education and other essential services.
  The Vancouver event is known for being more grass roots than Toronto's slick show, which morphed into an important marketing machine years ago.
  Twenty million people there face having their lives, homes and families blasted to smithereens by the most powerful military machine in the world.
  For all the claims of ‘control freakery’, the evidence seems to reveal a government machine influenced by a powerful sense of things being out of control.
  Synonyms
  organization, system, structure, arrangement, agency, machinery
4. 1.4 A person who acts with the mechanical efficiency of a machine.
  comedians are more than just laugh machines
  Example sentencesExamples
  You have in your command four of the most powerful fighting machines ever created, the Genohunter warrior.
  There was no stopping the laughing machine and people laughed till their eyes watered and jaws literally ached.

verbməˈʃinməˈSHēn

[with object]

(especially in manufacturing) make or operate on with a machine.
the cylinder covers are waiting to be machined
Example sentencesExamples
- At that time much of the manufacturing equipment needed could not be imported so Scott Bros built the lathes needed for machining the grenades.
- It's a big step, as OEMs traditionally have machined connecting rods themselves.
- Additional parts may be machined, or ordered from a catalogue, but these expenses are capped, and the final product can't exceed a certain weight or size.
- The reel is a six spoke design, but the spokes are in fact the aluminium left after the machining process, and there are 12 weight saving holes machined into the edge of the spool.
- The head tube is finished off with the all requisite reinforcing to prevent flaring and a very cool logo machined into it, an open gusset to the down tube and that's about it.
- In the beginning, multi-faceted objects were machined from solid aluminum and hand-polished by sculptor John Noestheden.
- The coupler body and the fiber mount were machined from a 1.5 inch diameter brass bar.
- Of course brass is easy to machine, but the tooling is first-rate.
- Kalyani's Bharat Forge - which supplies high value added products like machined crankshafts and connecting rods - already has a niche in the Chinese market.
- Prior to fracturing, the boltholes are machined in Operation 20.
- The kit is complete with cutters, handles, extension rods, a breaker bar, brass laps, facing cutters and other nicely machined hunks of metal.
- The company operates one of the largest laser machining centers in the world, according to Jeff Miller, laser R & D manager.
- It's got a surgical steel, triple-tumbler combination lock machined right into the kneecap, just set right into the sucker.
- At one end, a ball release notch has been precisely machined, at a specific distance from the other end, which is tapered to allow the ball run off.
- The bottom-water sampler was a slender, reinforced rod with finely machined discs of brass at either end.
- Made of brass, it was machined specifically to each caliber chambered in the 99 so that feeding cartridges was smooth, flawless and in a straight line.
- It involved breaking down a complex manufacturing job into small, easily repeated operations using parts machined so closely as to be interchangeable.

Origin

Mid 16th century (originally denoting a structure): from French, via Latin from Doric Greek makhana ( Greek mēkhanē, from mēkhos ‘contrivance’).

单词	machine
释义	Definition of machine in English: machine noun məˈʃiːnməˈʃin 1An apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task. a fax machine Example sentencesExamples The fact that machines perform repetitive tasks better than humans is widely recognized. If you hear the hard disk working furiously and the green light on the front of the computer is very busy, then the machine is performing a task. I find that he cannot now perform the machine programming functions which mainly occupied him during his twenty-two years with his former employer. In 1782, Watt developed a rotary engine that could turn a shaft and drive machinery to power the machines to spin and weave cotton cloth. A programme of installation of mechanical grading machines has taken place and machines are functioning in all the major export approved plants. Rapid-fire calls over the radio were heard as all of the Apaches performed their assigned tasks like a well-oiled machine. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would wilfully seize power. The basic idea of grid computing is several machines working together to amplify their processing power. What are the ultimate limits to the information processing power of computing machines? Turing proposed that a certain class of abstract machines could perform any ‘mechanical’ computing procedure. Instead they pumped the water which turned the wheels which powered the machines. It's inherently wasteful to have two-ton machines carrying a single person to the store for a quart of milk. For large lawn areas the use of mechanically powered aeration or slitting machines is more practical. They all knew the possibilities of tying together low cost machines to create a super-computing power and had seen it done before. A hum was heard from the machine as it powered up to do the task it was asked to do, followed by a soft whirring sound, as it digested the bike's current condition. The task now is to put together miracle machines in a hurry for a wireless industry that's bet the ranch on 3G. Throughout history, people have been building machines that can perform tasks better than humans. Waves over 25 ft high destroyed homes along the Florida coast and a nursing home lost all power meaning desperately-needed oxygen machines could not function. The beets are cut up mechanically into slices in machines resembling giant food processors. In setting up the machine for a given task, boxes are connected together so that the desired set of fundamental processes is executed. Synonyms apparatus, appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, device, unit, contraption, contrivance, gadget, mechanism, engine, motor, lever, pulley informal gizmo 1.1with modifier A coin-operated dispenser. a cigarette machine Example sentencesExamples An overwhelming majority voted for punitive cash machine charges which will hit hardest their poorest customers, those living in rural locations and people on a pension. The party supported distributing pokie machine money in local communities, but wanted some set aside for a central fund to aid problem gambling. She came to him, literally in a daydream, when he was bored, frustrated and uninspired, working at his father's coffee machine repair shop in Venice. To use the electric shock machine cost one penny, but friends would join hands so that a number of people could all experience the shock for the same penny. Obviously stick with banks offering free cash machine access, and here in Scotland we are fortunate because both the Scottish banks have pledged to maintain a fully free service. Well after last week's spooky coffee machine imbroglio, when both my coffee maker at work, and the one at home, blew up on the same day… it was time to buy replacements. Its automatic teller machine network, which currently has 30 machines, is expected to be doubled by March 2000. The company has also provided communications equipment to the Sofia Underground and the Borika national automatic teller machine system. So how do we apply for a grant to get a nicotine patch dispenser machine fitted in the bus shelter? New groups and cliques are formed due to coffee machine tactics, coffee drinkers with similar tactics go onto form their own splinter groups and stay within that group for life. Banks, building societies and cash machine controllers were also alerted to the error to make sure customers would have enough money to tide them over for Saturday and Sunday. If candy machine builders get too gloomy, they may stop building machines. This could prove extremely useful in these days of cash machine charges, where it helps to belong to more than one bank and gain free access to more than one bank's chain of cash machines. While we're so busy with war and beating off drug use, no one seems to worry about the smaller issues like ATM machine surcharges. It's an equation the Carr Government hopes to change by upping the tax on bigger clubs, which generate the vast majority of poker machine revenue. Most cash machine robberies are thought to take place after thieves stand close enough to their victim to see their PIN number and how much money they are withdrawing. Mr Davis also suggests that some banks have been guilty of ‘profiteering’ through cash machine charges, and we can only agree. We never ate at Monk's, but we did hang out at the same 7-11 pinball machine corner ever day. This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year. Everything from social engineering to fun explosives to Coke machine hacks can be found there. 1.2technical Any device that transmits a force or directs its application. Example sentencesExamples The application of useful machines and tools was thus equated with not just material progress but cultural development. Physicist Donald Simanek talked about perpetual motion machines and other unworkable devices. In farming, as elsewhere, these forces replace people with machines, a process that increases the minimum efficient size of farm. The Enigma machine is an electro-mechanical device for scrambling plain text invented by the Germans in 1918. It seems these little solar powered machines have applications that reach far beyond the motor car. 1.3 An efficient and well-organized group of powerful people. the party's fund-raising is helping it to build a formidable political machine Example sentencesExamples The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government. West Virginia once had some of the nation's mightiest political machines. The Prime Minister, therefore, was the apex of centralized, powerful, political and administrative machines. His attacks on elite perquisites, and his imperious treatment of subordinates, made him anathema to the powerful party machine. Now, both political parties from the top are controlled as party machines by Project Democracy, through the Congress. Suddenly the powerful propaganda machine of the big media concerns was no longer able to achieve the desired affect. The AFL-CIO is planning an effort modeled on its powerful get-out-the-vote political machine. The Vancouver event is known for being more grass roots than Toronto's slick show, which morphed into an important marketing machine years ago. An alliance of the most powerful and violent military machines in the world will never bring peace. He, within that period of time, defeated all of the enemies of France, and built the most powerful military machine in Europe, on the land. Big city political machines thrive on federal grants and state-granted powers. These bankers, and the interests they are associated with, control the Republican and Democratic Party election machines. Twenty million people there face having their lives, homes and families blasted to smithereens by the most powerful military machine in the world. The government has only been able to finance its military machine by slashing spending to education and other essential services. That is why marketers yearn for word of mouth publicity and powerful media machines long for becoming the talk of the town. Local government was controlled by one of the most powerful political machines in the nation, and that machine was largely the province of one man. For all the claims of ‘control freakery’, the evidence seems to reveal a government machine influenced by a powerful sense of things being out of control. The army of bus drivers that keep the wheels of the county's public transport machine turning is in need of fresh recruits. The Israelis, they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. He means the military machine of NATO, multinational companies, and institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Synonyms organization, system, structure, arrangement, agency, machinery informal set-up 1.4 A person who acts with the mechanical efficiency of a machine. comedians are more than just laugh machines Example sentencesExamples There was no stopping the laughing machine and people laughed till their eyes watered and jaws literally ached. You have in your command four of the most powerful fighting machines ever created, the Genohunter warrior. verb məˈʃiːnməˈʃin [with object] Make or operate on with a machine. the cylinder covers are waiting to be machined Example sentencesExamples The bottom-water sampler was a slender, reinforced rod with finely machined discs of brass at either end. In the beginning, multi-faceted objects were machined from solid aluminum and hand-polished by sculptor John Noestheden. The coupler body and the fiber mount were machined from a 1.5 inch diameter brass bar. Of course brass is easy to machine, but the tooling is first-rate. The head tube is finished off with the all requisite reinforcing to prevent flaring and a very cool logo machined into it, an open gusset to the down tube and that's about it. At that time much of the manufacturing equipment needed could not be imported so Scott Bros built the lathes needed for machining the grenades. The kit is complete with cutters, handles, extension rods, a breaker bar, brass laps, facing cutters and other nicely machined hunks of metal. Prior to fracturing, the boltholes are machined in Operation 20. Kalyani's Bharat Forge - which supplies high value added products like machined crankshafts and connecting rods - already has a niche in the Chinese market. It involved breaking down a complex manufacturing job into small, easily repeated operations using parts machined so closely as to be interchangeable. The company operates one of the largest laser machining centers in the world, according to Jeff Miller, laser R & D manager. It's a big step, as OEMs traditionally have machined connecting rods themselves. The reel is a six spoke design, but the spokes are in fact the aluminium left after the machining process, and there are 12 weight saving holes machined into the edge of the spool. At one end, a ball release notch has been precisely machined, at a specific distance from the other end, which is tapered to allow the ball run off. Made of brass, it was machined specifically to each caliber chambered in the 99 so that feeding cartridges was smooth, flawless and in a straight line. It's got a surgical steel, triple-tumbler combination lock machined right into the kneecap, just set right into the sucker. Additional parts may be machined, or ordered from a catalogue, but these expenses are capped, and the final product can't exceed a certain weight or size. Origin Mid 16th century (originally denoting a structure): from French, via Latin from Doric Greek makhana (Greek mēkhanē, from mēkhos 'contrivance'). mechanical from Late Middle English: Both mechanical and machine (mid 16th century) go back to Greek mēkhanikē ‘machine’. Originally mechanical and mechanic (Late Middle English) were more or less interchangeable, but nowadays the first primarily means ‘operated by or relating to a machine’ or ‘done without thought, automatic’, and the second refers to a skilled worker. An old meaning of both is ‘a manual labourer or artisan’, as in ‘A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, / That work for bread, upon Athenian stalls’ from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (rude here meaning ‘unsophisticated’). Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean Definition of machine in US English: machine nounməˈʃinməˈSHēn 1An apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task. a fax machine a shredding machine Example sentencesExamples The task now is to put together miracle machines in a hurry for a wireless industry that's bet the ranch on 3G. If you hear the hard disk working furiously and the green light on the front of the computer is very busy, then the machine is performing a task. It's inherently wasteful to have two-ton machines carrying a single person to the store for a quart of milk. The basic idea of grid computing is several machines working together to amplify their processing power. Instead they pumped the water which turned the wheels which powered the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would wilfully seize power. In setting up the machine for a given task, boxes are connected together so that the desired set of fundamental processes is executed. Turing proposed that a certain class of abstract machines could perform any ‘mechanical’ computing procedure. For large lawn areas the use of mechanically powered aeration or slitting machines is more practical. The fact that machines perform repetitive tasks better than humans is widely recognized. The beets are cut up mechanically into slices in machines resembling giant food processors. I find that he cannot now perform the machine programming functions which mainly occupied him during his twenty-two years with his former employer. What are the ultimate limits to the information processing power of computing machines? They all knew the possibilities of tying together low cost machines to create a super-computing power and had seen it done before. Waves over 25 ft high destroyed homes along the Florida coast and a nursing home lost all power meaning desperately-needed oxygen machines could not function. In 1782, Watt developed a rotary engine that could turn a shaft and drive machinery to power the machines to spin and weave cotton cloth. A hum was heard from the machine as it powered up to do the task it was asked to do, followed by a soft whirring sound, as it digested the bike's current condition. Rapid-fire calls over the radio were heard as all of the Apaches performed their assigned tasks like a well-oiled machine. Throughout history, people have been building machines that can perform tasks better than humans. A programme of installation of mechanical grading machines has taken place and machines are functioning in all the major export approved plants. Synonyms apparatus, appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, device, unit, contraption, contrivance, gadget, mechanism, engine, motor, lever, pulley 1.1with modifier A coin-operated dispenser. a candy machine Example sentencesExamples Banks, building societies and cash machine controllers were also alerted to the error to make sure customers would have enough money to tide them over for Saturday and Sunday. To use the electric shock machine cost one penny, but friends would join hands so that a number of people could all experience the shock for the same penny. She came to him, literally in a daydream, when he was bored, frustrated and uninspired, working at his father's coffee machine repair shop in Venice. This could prove extremely useful in these days of cash machine charges, where it helps to belong to more than one bank and gain free access to more than one bank's chain of cash machines. It's an equation the Carr Government hopes to change by upping the tax on bigger clubs, which generate the vast majority of poker machine revenue. Well after last week's spooky coffee machine imbroglio, when both my coffee maker at work, and the one at home, blew up on the same day… it was time to buy replacements. An overwhelming majority voted for punitive cash machine charges which will hit hardest their poorest customers, those living in rural locations and people on a pension. We never ate at Monk's, but we did hang out at the same 7-11 pinball machine corner ever day. The party supported distributing pokie machine money in local communities, but wanted some set aside for a central fund to aid problem gambling. Mr Davis also suggests that some banks have been guilty of ‘profiteering’ through cash machine charges, and we can only agree. Most cash machine robberies are thought to take place after thieves stand close enough to their victim to see their PIN number and how much money they are withdrawing. This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year. New groups and cliques are formed due to coffee machine tactics, coffee drinkers with similar tactics go onto form their own splinter groups and stay within that group for life. While we're so busy with war and beating off drug use, no one seems to worry about the smaller issues like ATM machine surcharges. Its automatic teller machine network, which currently has 30 machines, is expected to be doubled by March 2000. Obviously stick with banks offering free cash machine access, and here in Scotland we are fortunate because both the Scottish banks have pledged to maintain a fully free service. The company has also provided communications equipment to the Sofia Underground and the Borika national automatic teller machine system. Everything from social engineering to fun explosives to Coke machine hacks can be found there. If candy machine builders get too gloomy, they may stop building machines. So how do we apply for a grant to get a nicotine patch dispenser machine fitted in the bus shelter? 1.2technical Any device that transmits a force or directs its application. Example sentencesExamples The application of useful machines and tools was thus equated with not just material progress but cultural development. The Enigma machine is an electro-mechanical device for scrambling plain text invented by the Germans in 1918. In farming, as elsewhere, these forces replace people with machines, a process that increases the minimum efficient size of farm. It seems these little solar powered machines have applications that reach far beyond the motor car. Physicist Donald Simanek talked about perpetual motion machines and other unworkable devices. 1.3 An efficient and well-organized group of powerful people. his campaign illustrated the continuing strength of a powerful political machine Example sentencesExamples The Prime Minister, therefore, was the apex of centralized, powerful, political and administrative machines. His attacks on elite perquisites, and his imperious treatment of subordinates, made him anathema to the powerful party machine. West Virginia once had some of the nation's mightiest political machines. The army of bus drivers that keep the wheels of the county's public transport machine turning is in need of fresh recruits. The Israelis, they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government. He, within that period of time, defeated all of the enemies of France, and built the most powerful military machine in Europe, on the land. The AFL-CIO is planning an effort modeled on its powerful get-out-the-vote political machine. That is why marketers yearn for word of mouth publicity and powerful media machines long for becoming the talk of the town. Now, both political parties from the top are controlled as party machines by Project Democracy, through the Congress. An alliance of the most powerful and violent military machines in the world will never bring peace. He means the military machine of NATO, multinational companies, and institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. These bankers, and the interests they are associated with, control the Republican and Democratic Party election machines. Local government was controlled by one of the most powerful political machines in the nation, and that machine was largely the province of one man. Suddenly the powerful propaganda machine of the big media concerns was no longer able to achieve the desired affect. Big city political machines thrive on federal grants and state-granted powers. The government has only been able to finance its military machine by slashing spending to education and other essential services. The Vancouver event is known for being more grass roots than Toronto's slick show, which morphed into an important marketing machine years ago. Twenty million people there face having their lives, homes and families blasted to smithereens by the most powerful military machine in the world. For all the claims of ‘control freakery’, the evidence seems to reveal a government machine influenced by a powerful sense of things being out of control. Synonyms organization, system, structure, arrangement, agency, machinery 1.4 A person who acts with the mechanical efficiency of a machine. comedians are more than just laugh machines Example sentencesExamples You have in your command four of the most powerful fighting machines ever created, the Genohunter warrior. There was no stopping the laughing machine and people laughed till their eyes watered and jaws literally ached. verbməˈʃinməˈSHēn [with object] (especially in manufacturing) make or operate on with a machine. the cylinder covers are waiting to be machined Example sentencesExamples At that time much of the manufacturing equipment needed could not be imported so Scott Bros built the lathes needed for machining the grenades. It's a big step, as OEMs traditionally have machined connecting rods themselves. Additional parts may be machined, or ordered from a catalogue, but these expenses are capped, and the final product can't exceed a certain weight or size. The reel is a six spoke design, but the spokes are in fact the aluminium left after the machining process, and there are 12 weight saving holes machined into the edge of the spool. The head tube is finished off with the all requisite reinforcing to prevent flaring and a very cool logo machined into it, an open gusset to the down tube and that's about it. In the beginning, multi-faceted objects were machined from solid aluminum and hand-polished by sculptor John Noestheden. The coupler body and the fiber mount were machined from a 1.5 inch diameter brass bar. Of course brass is easy to machine, but the tooling is first-rate. Kalyani's Bharat Forge - which supplies high value added products like machined crankshafts and connecting rods - already has a niche in the Chinese market. Prior to fracturing, the boltholes are machined in Operation 20. The kit is complete with cutters, handles, extension rods, a breaker bar, brass laps, facing cutters and other nicely machined hunks of metal. The company operates one of the largest laser machining centers in the world, according to Jeff Miller, laser R & D manager. It's got a surgical steel, triple-tumbler combination lock machined right into the kneecap, just set right into the sucker. At one end, a ball release notch has been precisely machined, at a specific distance from the other end, which is tapered to allow the ball run off. The bottom-water sampler was a slender, reinforced rod with finely machined discs of brass at either end. Made of brass, it was machined specifically to each caliber chambered in the 99 so that feeding cartridges was smooth, flawless and in a straight line. It involved breaking down a complex manufacturing job into small, easily repeated operations using parts machined so closely as to be interchangeable. Origin Mid 16th century (originally denoting a structure): from French, via Latin from Doric Greek makhana ( Greek mēkhanē, from mēkhos ‘contrivance’).
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