英语词汇“machine”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	machine
释义	ma·chine I. \məˈshēn\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle French, from Latin machina, from Greek (Doric dialect) machana (Attic mēchanē), from (Doric dialect) machos means, expedient (Attic mēchos) — more at may 1. a. archaic : a structure or constructed thing whether material or immaterial : erection, handiwork b. (1) archaic : ship, boat (2) : conveyance, vehicle < brought his machine to a halt with a flourish > c. obsolete : appliance, device d. archaic : a military engine (as a siege tower or catapult) e. : any of various apparatuses formerly used in the production of theatrical stage effects f. (1) : an assemblage of parts that are usually solid bodies but include in some cases fluid bodies or electricity in conductors and that transmit forces, motion, and energy one to another in some predetermined manner and to some desired end (as for sewing a seam, printing a newspaper, hoisting a load, or maintaining an electric current) (2) : an instrument (as a lever) designed to transmit or modify the application of power, force, or motion (3) : a mechanical device of the particular kind relevant or under consideration < run up the seams on the machine > (4) Britain : a power-driven printing press < in the printing office the hand press is spoken of as the “press” and the machine press as the “machine” — John Southward > 2. a. : a living organism or one of its functional systems < the intricate hearing machine of the bat > : bodily mechanism — used especially when the whole is thought of as a system of more or less mechanically interacting parts < disease alters the balance of the human machine > b. : a person or organization that acts like a machine especially in responding automatically and without intelligence or feeling or as though responding mechanically to activating stimuli < thought of the lower animals as mere machines without sense or sensibility > < making machines of men > c. (1) : a combination of persons acting together (as for a common end) together with the agencies they use < the entire social machine > < building a powerful war machine > (2) : a highly organized group that, under the leadership of a boss or a small clique, controls the policies and activities of a political party especially for private rather than for public ends 3. : a literary device or contrivance (as a supernatural agency) introduced for dramatic effect; also : an agency so introduced Synonyms: machine, engine, apparatus, appliance signify, in common, a device, often complex, for doing work beyond human physical or mental limitations or faster than human hand or mind. machine applies to a construction or organization whose parts are so connected and interrelated that it can be set in motion and perform work as a unit < those most practical machines of our modern life, the dynamo and the telephone — Havelock Ellis > < calculators, billers, duplicators, and other business machines > < the finest machine in the world is useless without a motor to drive it — C.C.Furnas > < was by no means a cold and calculating thinking machine — W.L.Sperry > Although in an earlier and still common use engine can signify any device or contrivance to multiply force or speed < metal-wheeled chariots … soon appeared as the newest and most powerful engines of war — R.W.Murray > < television, our newest and potentially greatest engine of enlightenment — Gilbert Seldes > more generally engine applies to a particular kind of machine, usually one which turns one form of physical power into another more useful, sometimes, however, applying to both a power-generating unit and the total working unit moved by the power unit < gasoline engines > < airplane engines > < these engines were built to pump out mines — C.F.Kettering & Allen Orth > < a fire engine > < a steam engine pulling a hundred cars > apparatus is more general than the other words, applying to any more or less complicated mechanism or unit of organization for effecting a given work, whose parts may be many or few, delicate or crude < apparatus (heavy generators, transformers, etc) — Time > < substances such as glass, crystal, and flint are linked with apparatuses of one kind or another (compasses, barometers, spectrums, and hourglasses) — Louise Bogan > < a table … covered with his writing apparatus — Osbert Sitwell > < a professional historical journal … equipped with an apparatus of footnotes — Times Literary Supplement > < the pipes, fixtures, and other apparatus inside buildings for bringing in the water supply and removing the liquid and water-borne wastes — Water & Sewage Control Engineering > appliance is often interchangeable with apparatus but usually designates a simple useful machine the power for which can be supplied readily, commonly, therefore, suggesting the electrical appliance < sometimes a bow is drawn with the assistance of the feet, or of a ring-handled dagger, or other appliance — Notes & Queries on Anthropology > < among those appliances reflecting the greatest sales increases were driers and freezers — Dun's Review > < vacuum cleaners and home appliances > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) *transitive verb* 1. : to subject to or produce or finish by the action of machinery: as a. : to turn, shape, plane, mill, or otherwise reduce or finish (as a metal blank or casting) by machine-operated cutting tools b. Britain : to print with a power-driven press 2. : to fashion as if by machinery : cause to conform to a fixed pattern : standardize *intransitive verb* : to be machinable < brass machines easily >
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