machine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Doric Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ)
Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́)bor.
Latin māchinabor.
Middle French machinebor.
English machine
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.
Inflected forms:
form: machines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: machines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: machining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: machined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: machined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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.
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.
"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.
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.
gloss: An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
examples: I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
gloss: A computer.
pos: noun
examples: Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.
gloss: A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
The government has become a money-making machine.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The whole machine of government, civil and religious, ought never to bear upon the people with a weight so oppressive
gloss: Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
pos: noun
examples: 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[…]
gloss: The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 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.
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.
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.
gloss: Penis.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
obsolete
examples: 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;
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A bathing machine.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: One Machine only was provided for Bathers, the Limitted smoothness of the sands not extending widely enough to admit another.
gloss: To make by machinery.
pos: verb
gloss: To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Synonyms: machine
engine
Related words: Turing machine
state machine
virtual machine
tool
:Category:Machines
Outline of machines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Derived words: 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
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
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
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 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
wash-machine
wash machine
wayback machine
weighing machine
well-oiled machine
wetting machine
wheeling machine
Wimshurst machine
wind machine
winnowing machine
xerox machine
Zeno machine
zipper machine
machinist
machinofacture
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