'Machination' definitions:
Definition of 'machination'
(from WordNet)
noun
A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends [syn: intrigue, machination]
Definition of 'Machination'
From: GCIDE
- Machination \Mach`i*na"tion\, n. [L. machinatio: cf. F. machination.]
- 1. The act of machinating. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. [1913 Webster]
- Devilish machinations come to naught. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- His ingenious machinations had failed. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'machination'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- artifice,
- behind-the-scenes influence,
- cabal,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- deep-laid plot,
- design,
- designing,
- devices,
- dodgery,
- engineering,
- expedients,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- foul play,
- frame-up,
- gambit,
- game,
- influence,
- intrigue,
- intriguing,
- little game,
- maneuvering,
- maneuvers,
- manipulating,
- manipulation,
- move,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- political influence,
- practice,
- rigging,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- sharp practice,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- stratagem,
- supercherie,
- tactical maneuvers,
- tactics,
- trick,
- trickery,
- underhand dealing,
- underplot,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wire-pulling
Words containing 'Machination'
- Machinal,
- Machinate,
- Machinated,
- Machinating,
- Machinator,
- Machine,
- Machined,
- Machiner,
- Machining,
- by machine,
- Bathing machine,
- Burnishing machine,
- Burring machine,
- Calculating machine,
- Carding machine,
- Centrifugal machine,
- Combing machine,
- Crimping machine,
- Dredging machine,
- Edging machine,
- Electric machine,
- Electrical machine,
- Elementary machine,
- Fanning machine,
- Flying machine,
- Forcing machine,
- Freezing machine,
- Friction machine,
- Friezing machine,
- Frizzing machine,
- Funicular machine,
- Gig machine,
- Gigging machine,
- Gliding machine,
- Gramme machine,
- Ice machine,
- Infernal machine,
- Jigging machine,
- Jointing machine,
- Knitting machine,
- Lapping machine,
- Lifting machine,
- Machine gun,
- Machine language,
- Machine screw,
- Machine shop,
- Machine tool,
- Machine twist,
- Machine work,
- Matching machine,
- Milling machine,
- Modulus of a machine,
- Molding machine,
- Moulding machine,
- Mowing machine,
- Napping machine,
- Numbering machine,
- Planing machine,
- Praying machine,
- Profiling machine,
- Punching machine,
- Roving machine,
- Screw machine,
- Screwing machine,
- Scribbling machine,
- Scutching machine,
- Seaming machine,
- Sewing machine,
- Shaping machine,
- Shearing machine,
- Slabbing machine,
- Slot machine,
- Slubbing machine,
- Splining machine,
- Stamping machine,
- Testing machine,
- Thrashing machine,
- To reverse a machine,
- Washing machine,
- Weighing machine,
- Willying machine,
- Wincing machine,
- Wringing machine,
- Writing machine,
- adding machine,
- addressing machine,
- answering machine,
- batting machine,
- beetling machine,
- breathing machine,
- cash machine,
- coin machine,
- computing machine,
- dialysis machine,
- diathermy machine,
- dishwashing machine,
- electrostatic machine,
- facsimile machine,
- farm machine,
- franking machine,
- fruit machine,
- linotype machine,
- lithograph machine,
- machine bolt,
- machine code,
- machine gunner,
- machine made,
- machine operation,
- machine pistol,
- machine politician,
- machine readable,
- machine rifle,
- machine stitch,
- machine translation,
- machine wash,
- magnetoelectric machine,
- military machine,
- milking machine,
- mimeograph machine,
- mincing machine,
- paving machine,
- photostat machine,
- pinball machine,
- political machine,
- printing machine,
- recording machine,
- riveting machine,
- sawing machine,
- simple machine,
- spinning machine,
- stapling machine,
- tape machine,
- teletype machine,
- telex machine,
- textile machine,
- threshing machine,
- time machine,
- turing machine,
- typesetting machine,
- vending machine,
- voting machine,
- war machine,
- wimshurst machine,
- xerox machine,
- automated teller machine,
- automatic teller machine,
- browning machine gun,
- light machine gun,
- machine readable dictionary,
- machine-accessible,
- machine-controlled,
- machine-driven,
- machine-gun,
- machine-like,
- machine-made,
- machine-readable,
- machine-wash,
- microwave diathermy machine,
- perpetual motion machine,
- shortwave diathermy machine,
- von neumann machine,
- Hydro-electric machine,
- Magneto-electric machine,
- colliding-beam machine,
- ground-effect machine,
- heart-lung machine,
- machine-displayable text,
- machine-oriented language,
- machine-readable text,
- pari-mutuel machine,
- sewing-machine operator,
- sewing-machine stitch,
- x-ray machine,
- Vickers-Maxim automatic machine gun,
- pari-mutuel machine totalizer totaliser totalizator totalisator