# machine
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /məˈʃiːn/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /məˈʃin/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Indic) IPA: /meˈʃiːn/, /ma-/, /mi-/
** (nonstandard) IPA: /ˈmiʃin/
*** Homophone: mission
* Rhymes: -iːn
* Hyphenation: ma‧chine

### Noun

machine (plural machines)
* A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
** 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
* (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
** 1914 July, F. Britten Austin, “The Air-Scout”, in The Strand Magazine, volume XLVIII, London: George Newnes, Ltd., page 568:As the aviator turned his machine to reconnoitre in the new direction, he was surprised to see the hostile aeroplane between him and his objective.
** 1928, Franklin W. Dixon, The Missing Chums, Grosset & Dunlap, page 1:"Joe, how soon will you be ready to roll?" Frank Hardy burst into the garage where his brother was working on a sleek, black-and-silver motorcycle. "Right now, if this machine kicks over," Joe replied, putting down a wrench.
* (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
    I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
* (computing) A computer.
    Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
    He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.
* (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
    Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
    The government has become a money-making machine.
* 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.
** 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Rousseau and Malesherbes”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:The whole machine of government, civil and religious, ought never to bear upon the people with a weight so oppressive
* (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
** 1712 May 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, April 21, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 351; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:I am apt to think, that the changing of the Trojan fleet into water-nymphs, which is the most violent machine in the whole Æneid […]The spelling has been modernized.
* (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
** 1902, The Friend:A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket (as he and his clique of party bosses prepare it) should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party.
** 2006, Jerry F. Hough, Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-blue State Alignment, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 37:In essence, therefore, the right-fork strategy of the Democrats meant an alliance of the South with the political machines built on the non-Protestant immigrants in key Northeastern states.
** 2013, Paul M. Green, Melvin G. Holli, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, fourth edition, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 126:He was thrust into a political maelstrom for which he was ill-prepared, and yet he was, most notably, the Chicago machine's political savior.
* (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
** 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 107:He now reſumes his attempts in more form: firſt he put one of the pillows under me, to give the blank of his aim a more favourable elevation, and another under my head, in eaſe of it: then ſpreading my thighs, and placing himſelf ſtanding between them, made them reſt upon his hips: applying then the point of his machine to the ſlit, into which he ſought entrance;
* (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.
* (obsolete) A bathing machine.
** 1823, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 512:One Machine only was provided for Bathers, the Limitted smoothness of the sands not extending widely enough to admit another.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:machine

#### Hyponyms

* add value machine
* bean machine
* Charpy machine
* cigarette machine
* excavating machine
* finite state machine
* franking machine
* Google machine
* grinding machine
* interlingual machine translation
* jet machine
* knitting machine
* liquid state machine
* machine intelligence
* nondeterministic Turing machine
* paper machine
* penny-in-the-slot machine
* pinball machine
* poker machine
* rowing machine
* sewing machine
* simple machine
* slot machine
* smoke machine
* tamping machine
* ticket machine
* tunnel boring machine
* vending machine
* virtual machine
* washing machine
* watch timing machine
* watch-timing machine
* welding machine

#### Derived terms

* accounting machine
* adding machine
* antimachine
* arcwall machine
* ATM machine
* Atwood machine
* Atwood's machine
* automated machine learning
* automated teller machine
* automatic data processing machine
* automatic teller machine
* baby machine
* backwards time machine
* backward time machine
* ball machine
* bank machine
* biomachine
* bookkeeping machine
* bread machine
* business machine
* carding machine
* cash machine
* claw machine
* coffee machine
* compound machine
* copy machine
* cornucopia machine
* dance machine
* data processing machine
* deflavorizing machine
* deus ex machina
* dictation machine
* ditto machine
* Ditto machine
* drum machine
* drying machine
* DVD-R machine
* dynamo-electric machine
* Enigma machine
* epsilon-machine
* exercise machine
* fax machine
* femtomachine
* finite-state machine
* fire machine
* flying machine
* fog machine
* forest machine
* forestry machine
* forwards time machine
* forward time machine
* fruit machine
* fucking machine
* fuckmachine
* gaming machine
* ghost in the machine
* goal machine
* ground effect machine
* ground-effect machine
* gumball machine
* Harvard machine
* heart-lung machine
* Hollerith machine
* hug machine
* ice machine
* infernal machine
* influence machine
* infomachine
* intermachine
* Jacquard machine
* karaoke machine
* kidney machine
* lace machine
* laugh machine
* light machine gun
* light machine guns
* little brown fucking machine
* love machine
* machinability
* machinable
* machinate
* machination
* machineability
* machineable
* machine age
* machine bolt
* machine code
* machine cycle
* machine elf
* machine epsilon
* machineful
* machine gun
* machinegun
* machine gunner
* machine-gunner
* machine head
* machine-hour
* machine instruction
* machine lace
* machine language
* machine learning
* machineless
* machinelike
* machinely
* machine-made
* machineman
* machine of government
* machine operator
* machine-paced
* machine pistol
* machine politician
* machine politics
* machine-readable
* machine room
* machinery
* machine screw
* machine shop
* Machine Spirit
* machine tool
* machine-translate
* machine translation
* machine wash
* machine-wash
* machine-washable
* machine word
* machine zone
* machinic
* machinify
* machinima
* machinism
* machinize
* man-machine
* Mealy machine
* mean machine
* mechanic
* mechanical
* mechanism
* mechanistic
* megamachine
* metamachine
* micromachine
* milking machine
* milling machine
* mismachine
* money machine
* Moore machine
* mud machine
* multimachine
* nanomachine
* nonmachine
* office machine
* oracle machine
* orphan-crushing machine
* perpetual motion machine
* perpetual motion machine of the first kind
* perpetual motion machine of the second kind
* photo machine
* poker machine
* pokie machine
* political machine
* poop machine
* praying machine
* premachine
* rasping machine
* remachine
* reverse vending machine
* reversing machine
* road machine
* rod machine
* roller machine
* rope machine
* rotor machine
* rubbing machine
* Rube Goldberg machine
* sanding machine
* screw machine
* scrum machine
* scrummaging machine
* seaming machine
* sex-machine
* sex machine
* slabbing machine
* sleep machine
* slotting machine
* Smith machine
* snow machine
* snowmachine
* soda machine
* spin machine
* splining machine
* squeeze machine
* stack machine
* state machine
* step machine
* submachine
* supermachine
* support vector machine
* tabulating machine
* tape machine
* tattoo machine
* telephone answering machine
* thinking machine
* threshing machine
* ticket stamping machine
* ticket-stamping machine
* ticket vending machine
* time machine
* Tipler machine
* Tipler time machine
* trowel machine
* turbomachine
* Turing machine
* universal Turing machine
* unlimited register machine
* virtual machine monitor
* von Neumann machine
* voting machine
* war machine
* wayback machine
* weighing machine
* well-oiled machine
* wetting machine
* wheeling machine
* Wimshurst machine
* wind machine
* winnowing machine
* xerox machine
* Zeno machine
* zipper machine

#### Descendants

* → Ainu: マシン
* → Bengali: মেশিন (meśin)
* → Cowlitz: məšín
* → Irish: meaisín
* → Japanese: マシン (mashin)
* → Korean: 머신 (meosin)
* → Maori: mīhini
* → Punjabi
    Gurmukhi script: ਮਸ਼ੀਨ (maśīn)
    Shahmukhi script: مشین (maśīn)
* → Swahili: mashine
* → Tok Pisin: masin

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### References

* machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Verb

machine (third-person singular simple present machines, present participle machining, simple past and past participle machined)
* To make by machinery.
* To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.
** 2015, Helmi A. Youssef, Machining of Stainless Steels and Super Alloys, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 6:Engineering materials have been recently developed whose hardness and strength are considerably increased, such that the cutting speed and the MRR tend to fall when machining such materials using traditional methods like turning, milling, grinding, and so on.

#### Derived terms

* machinist
* machinofacture

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “machine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “machine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “machine n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Anagrams

* Eichman

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* masjine (adapted)
* machien (archaic or colloquial)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French machine, from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina, from Doric Greek μᾱχανᾱ́ (mākhanā́).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɑˈʃinə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ma‧chi‧ne
* Rhymes: -inə

### Noun

machine f (plural machines, diminutive machientje n or machinetje n)
* machine (mechanical or electrical device)

#### Derived terms

* broodmachine
* hormachine
* keukenmachine
* koffiemachine
* machinaal
* machineren
* naaimachine
* nietmachine
* schrijfmachine
* tunnelboormachine
* vliegmachine
* wasmachine

#### Related terms

* machinatie
* machinist
* mechaniek
* mechanisch

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: masjien
* → Caribbean Javanese: mesin
* → Malay: mesin
** Indonesian: mesin
** → Sundanese: ᮙᮨᮞᮤᮔ᮪ (mesin)
* → Sranan Tongo: masyin
** → Aukan: masini
** → Caribbean Hindustani: mashin
** → Kari'na: masini
** → Saramaccan: masíni

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French machine, borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), itself a borrowing from Doric Ancient Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́). Not to be confused with machin, which means "thing".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ʃin/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

machine f (plural machines)
* machine, device (clarification of this definition is needed)
* (slang) machine (a person who is very efficient)
    Ce type, c’est une vraie machine!What a guy, he's a real machine!

#### Derived terms

* code machine
* faire machine arrière
* faire une machine
* langage machine
* machine à boule
* machine à café
* machine à coudre
* machine à écrire
* machine à explorer le temps
* machine à laver
* machine à plastifier
* machine à sous
* machine à vapeur
* machine à voyager dans le temps
* machine de Turing
* salle des machines

#### Related terms

* machinal
* machination
* machiner
* machinisme
* machiniste
* mécanique
* mécanisme

#### Descendants

* → Amharic: ማሽን (mašn)
* → Azerbaijani: maşın
* → Danish: maskine
** → Faroese: maskina
* → Dutch: machine, masjine (adapted), machien (archaic or colloquial)
** Afrikaans: masjien
** → Caribbean Javanese: mesin
** → Malay: mesin
*** Indonesian: mesin
*** → Sundanese: ᮙᮨᮞᮤᮔ᮪ (mesin)
** → Sranan Tongo: masyin
*** → Aukan: masini
*** → Caribbean Hindustani: mashin
*** → Kari'na: masini
*** → Saramaccan: masíni
* → German: Maschine (see there for further descendants)
* → Limburgish: mesjien
* → Norwegian: maskin
* → Pashto: ماشين (māšín)
* → Persian: ماشین (mâšin)
** → Central Kurdish: ماشێن (maşên)
** → Turkmen: maşyn
* → Romanian: mașină (also via German)
* → Spanish: mashina (Louisiana)
* → Swedish: maskin
* → Tajik: мошин (mošin), мошина (mošina)
** → Yagnobi: мошин (mošin)
* → Esperanto: maŝino

### Further reading

* “machine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* chemina

## Middle French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin machina.

### Noun

machine f (plural machines)
* machine; device

#### Descendants

* French: machine (see there for further descendants)
* → English: machine (see there for further descendants)

### References

* Etymology and history of “machine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (machine, supplement)

## Walloon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ʃin/

### Noun

machine f (plural machines)
* machine