machine
n.
man-made device made up of interconnected parts that work together to perform a given task or function; group of people that controls an organization or cause; person that acts in a stiff mechanical manner
v.
produce via mechanical means, create using a machine
Machine
The scientific definition of a machine (derived from the latin
machina) is any device that transmits or modifies . In common usage, the meaning is restricted to devices having rigid
moving parts that perform or assist in performing some work. Machines normally require some energy source ("input") and always accomplish some sort of
work ("output"). Devices with no rigid moving parts are commonly considered
tools, or simply
devices, not machines.
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machine (f)
n.
machine, engine
machiner
v.
machinate, engineer, scheme
machine
adj.
engine
machine (de)
n.
engine, machine
Machine
(v. t.)
To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
(n.)
Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(n.)
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.
(n.)
Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
(n.)
A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
(n.)
A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
(n.)
A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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