machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃiːn/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛˈʃin/
note: Indic
ipa: /mə-/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɪ-/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ˈʃɪn/
homophone: mission (for some speakers with the weak vowel merger)
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: (Indic, also) -ɪn
Forms: form: machines
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
examples: text: As he stood directly beneath a brilliant arc light, waiting for a limousine that was approaching to pass him, he heard his name called in a sweet feminine voice. Looking up, he met the smiling eyes of Olga de Coude as she leaned forward upon the back seat of the machine. He bowed very low in response to her friendly greeting. When he straightened up the machine had borne her away.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “What Happened in the Rue Maule”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, pages 40–41:
text: 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.
ref: 1914 July, F. Britten Austin, “The Air-Scout”, in The Strand Magazine, volume XLVIII, London: George Newnes, Ltd., page 568:
text: "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.
ref: 1928, Franklin W. Dixon, The Missing Chums, Grosset & Dunlap, page 1:
text: Now, here, he is a Racer. He throws his leg over the machine and settles onto the narrow rubber seat. He pushes it through its revolution twice with his hand, slowly, to force the fuel into the carburetor. Then he stands with his left foot on the peg and jumps down on the lever with his right. The engine starts immediately; he takes very good care of his machine. He sits down, waiting for it to warm up. He caresses the top of the tank, understanding that the machine cannot feel the gesture but content that he can.
ref: 1976 August, David Laraway, “Weekends and Other Days: Loving at the edge of life”, in Edith Raymond Locke, editor, Mademoiselle, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 256, columns 1–2:
glosses: A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
examples: text: I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
examples: text: Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
text: He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer.
examples: text: Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
text: The government has become a money-making machine.
glosses: A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
examples: text: The whole machine of government, civil and religious, ought never to bear upon the people with a weight so oppressive
ref: 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Rousseau and Malesherbes”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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[…]
ref: 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:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1902, The Friend:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Jerry F. Hough, Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-blue State Alignment, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 37:
text: 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.
ref: 2013, Paul M. Green, Melvin G. Holli, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, fourth edition, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 126:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
examples: text: 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;
ref: 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:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: Penis.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: One Machine only was provided for Bathers, the Limitted smoothness of the sands not extending widely enough to admit another.
ref: 1823, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 512:
glosses: A bathing machine.
Synonyms: word: machine
word: engine
Hypernyms: word: device
Hyponyms: word: add value machine
word: bean machine
word: Charpy machine
word: cigarette machine
word: excavating machine
word: finite state machine
word: franking machine
word: Google machine
word: grinding machine
word: interactive teller machine
word: interlingual machine translation
word: jet machine
word: knitting machine
word: liquid state machine
word: machine intelligence
english: ping
translation: ping
word: machine that goes
word: nondeterministic Turing machine
word: paper machine
word: penny-in-the-slot machine
word: pinball machine
word: poker machine
word: rowing machine
word: sewing machine
word: simple machine
word: slot machine
word: smoke machine
word: sounding machine
word: tamping machine
word: ticket machine
word: tunnel boring machine
word: vending machine
word: virtual machine
word: washing machine
word: watch-timing machine
word: watch timing machine
word: welding machine
word: dishwasher
word: vacuum cleaner
word: steam engine
word: turbine
word: car
word: computer
word: robot
word: printing press
Meronyms: word: gear
word: rope
word: spring
word: wheel
word: axle
word: bearing
word: belt
word: seal
word: chain
word: roller chain
word: link chain
word: rack and pinion
word: fastener
word: key
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
lag 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
machinegun
machine gun
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-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
snowmachine
snow machine
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
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