'Machinery' definitions:
Definition of 'machinery'
From: WordNet
noun
Machines or machine systems collectively
noun
A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"
Definition of 'Machinery'
From: GCIDE
- Machinery \Ma*chin"er*y\ (m[.a]*sh[=e]n"[~e]r*[y^]), n. [From Machine: cf. F. machinerie.]
- 1. Machines, in general, or collectively. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. [1913 Webster]
- The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose. [1913 Webster]
- An indispensable part of the machinery of state. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'machinery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accouterments,
- action,
- adding machine,
- addressing machine,
- agency,
- agent,
- all-crop harvester,
- apparatus,
- appliance,
- appliances,
- appointments,
- appurtenances,
- armament,
- automobile,
- backhoe,
- baler,
- bean harvester,
- beet harvester,
- binder,
- breaker,
- bulldozer,
- calfdozer,
- carryall,
- cast plow,
- channel,
- clockworks,
- combine,
- compressor,
- contraption,
- contrivance,
- convenience,
- conveniences,
- cotton picker,
- crab,
- crane,
- crimping machine,
- cultivator,
- cutting machine,
- cutting press,
- derrick,
- device,
- dishwasher,
- disk,
- disk harrow,
- disk plow,
- drag,
- dredge,
- dredger,
- dredging machine,
- drill,
- drill plow,
- drive,
- drive train,
- drop hammer,
- duffel,
- dumping machine,
- edger,
- elevator dredge,
- engine,
- enginery,
- equipage,
- equipment,
- expedient,
- facilities,
- facility,
- fittings,
- fixture,
- fixtures,
- folding machine,
- four-bottom plow,
- furnishings,
- furniture,
- gadget,
- gang plow,
- gear,
- gin,
- going between,
- grader,
- grain harvester,
- grub hook,
- habiliments,
- harrow,
- harvester,
- haymaker,
- header,
- hoe drill,
- hoist,
- hydraulic press,
- impedimenta,
- implement,
- innards,
- installations,
- instrument,
- instrumentality,
- intermediation,
- kit,
- lawn mower,
- lister,
- lister cultivator,
- machine,
- machine drill,
- mailing machine,
- materiel,
- means,
- mechanical aid,
- mechanical device,
- mechanism,
- mediation,
- medium,
- middlebreaker,
- moldboard plow,
- motion,
- motive power,
- motor,
- motorcycle,
- movement,
- movements,
- mower,
- munition,
- munitions,
- navvy,
- organ,
- outfit,
- packager,
- paraphernalia,
- peg-tooth harrow,
- pile driver,
- planing machine,
- plant,
- planter,
- plow,
- plow drill,
- plumbing,
- power mower,
- power plant,
- power shovel,
- power source,
- power train,
- prairie breaker,
- press,
- press drill,
- printing machine,
- pulp machine,
- punching machine,
- pusher,
- rake,
- recourse,
- resort,
- rig,
- rigging,
- roller,
- rose engine,
- rotary plow,
- ruling machine,
- saw machine,
- scooter,
- scraper,
- screwing machine,
- seed plow,
- seeder,
- service,
- servomechanism,
- sewer,
- sewing machine,
- shovel plow,
- snap machine,
- snow-thrower,
- snowblower,
- snowplow,
- solar machine,
- sprayer,
- spring-tooth harrow,
- stag gang,
- steam hammer,
- steam shovel,
- steamroller,
- stock-in-trade,
- subsoil plow,
- sulky lister,
- sulky plow,
- swather,
- swivel plow,
- tackle,
- tackling,
- tedder,
- things,
- thrasher,
- three-bottom plow,
- thresher,
- threshing machine,
- tool,
- tractor,
- trench plow,
- triphammer,
- turnplow,
- two-bottom plow,
- typewriter,
- typing machine,
- utensil,
- utensils,
- utility,
- vehicle,
- vineyard plow,
- walking plow,
- washing machine,
- watchworks,
- water wheel,
- wheels,
- wheels within wheels,
- windlass,
- windrower,
- workings,
- works