'Machine' definitions:
Definition of 'machine'
From: WordNet
noun
Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
noun
An efficient person; "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"
noun
An intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently; "the war machine"
noun
A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point [syn: machine, simple machine]
noun
A group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine" [syn: machine, political machine]
noun
A motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" [syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar]
verb
Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery
verb
Make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"
Definition of 'Machine'
From: GCIDE
- Machine \Ma*chine"\ (m[.a]*sh[=e]n"), n. [F., fr. L. machina machine, engine, device, trick, Gr. mhchanh`, from mh^chos means, expedient. Cf. Mechanic.]
- 1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The term machine is most commonly applied to such pieces of mechanism as are used in the industrial arts, for mechanically shaping, dressing, and combining materials for various purposes, as in the manufacture of cloth, etc. Where the effect is chemical, or other than mechanical, the contrivance is usually denominated an apparatus or device, not a machine; as, a bleaching apparatus. Many large, powerful, or specially important pieces of mechanism are called engines; as, a steam engine, fire engine, graduating engine, etc. Although there is no well-settled distinction between the terms engine and machine among practical men, there is a tendency to restrict the application of the former to contrivances in which the operating part is not distinct from the motor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. --Dryden. --Southey. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine. [1913 Webster]
- The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine. [Political Cant] [1913 Webster]
- 6. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Elementary machine, a name sometimes given to one of the simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical.
- Infernal machine. See under Infernal.
- Machine gun.See under Gun.
- Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into metal, in distinction from one which is designed especially to be screwed into wood.
- Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc.
- Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less general use in a machine shop, in distinction from a machine for producing a special article as in manufacturing.
- Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine.
- Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done by hand labor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Machine'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'machine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addressing machine,
- alembic,
- alliance,
- American Party,
- Anti-Monopoly Party,
- anvil,
- apparatus,
- appliance,
- assemblage,
- association,
- auto,
- autocar,
- automaton,
- automobile,
- axis,
- band,
- bloc,
- boat,
- body,
- buggy,
- Bull Moose Party,
- Bund,
- bus,
- cabal,
- caldron,
- camp,
- car,
- carve,
- chisel,
- city hall,
- clique,
- coalition,
- college,
- combination,
- combine,
- common market,
- Communist Party,
- Composaline,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- Conservative Party,
- Constitutional Union Party,
- consumer cooperative,
- contraption,
- contrivance,
- convenience,
- convert,
- cooperative,
- cooperative society,
- corps,
- council,
- crate,
- credit union,
- crucible,
- cultivate,
- customs union,
- Democratic Party,
- Democratic-Republican Party,
- device,
- Diatype,
- Ditto,
- drive,
- duplicator,
- economic community,
- Elrod,
- engine,
- enginery,
- extract,
- facility,
- faction,
- Farmer-Labor Party,
- Federalist Party,
- federation,
- fixture,
- Fotomatic,
- Fotosetter,
- Fototronic,
- Free Soil Party,
- free trade area,
- gadget,
- gang,
- gizmo,
- golem,
- Greenback Party,
- group,
- grouping,
- grow,
- harvest,
- heap,
- hectograph,
- implement,
- instrument,
- Intertype,
- jalopy,
- Know-Nothing Party,
- Labour Party,
- lathe,
- league,
- Liberal Party,
- Liberal Republican Party,
- Liberty Party,
- Linotype,
- machinery,
- major party,
- make,
- manufacture,
- mechanical aid,
- mechanical device,
- mechanism,
- mechanize,
- melting pot,
- mill,
- mimeograph,
- mine,
- minor party,
- mob,
- Monotype,
- mortar,
- motive power,
- motor,
- motor vehicle,
- motorcar,
- motorize,
- motorized vehicle,
- Multigraph,
- multiple party system,
- National Republican Party,
- one-party system,
- opposition party,
- organization,
- partnership,
- party,
- party in power,
- Photon,
- phototypesetter,
- political machine,
- political party,
- Populist Party,
- power plant,
- power source,
- prime mover,
- process,
- Progressive Party,
- Prohibition Party,
- pump,
- raise,
- rear,
- refine,
- Republican Party,
- retool,
- retort,
- ring,
- Rochdale cooperative,
- shape,
- sharpen,
- smelt,
- Socialist Labor Party,
- Socialist Party,
- Socialist Workers Party,
- society,
- splinter party,
- stock ticker,
- system,
- Tammany Hall,
- teleprinter,
- Teletype,
- teletypewriter,
- test tube,
- third party,
- ticker,
- tool,
- Tory Party,
- transducer,
- transformer,
- tub,
- two-party system,
- typewriter,
- union,
- utensil,
- utility,
- vehicle,
- voiture,
- wheels,
- Whig Party,
- wreck,
- Zip
Words containing 'Machine'
- Machinal,
- Machinate,
- Machinated,
- Machinating,
- Machination,
- Machinator,
- 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