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US
/məˈʃin/
]
[ UK /məʃˈiːn/ ]
[ UK /məʃˈiːn/ ]
NOUN
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an efficient person
the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine -
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
he needs a car to get to work - any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
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a group that controls the activities of a political party
he was endorsed by the Democratic machine - a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
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an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
the war machine
VERB
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make by machinery
The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars - turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery
How To Use machine In A Sentence
- And if you can develop a machine to look for the needle in the haystack and what you come out with from having the machine sift through the haystack is a box of straw, where maybe the needle's in there and maybe a few bonus needles, then that's a whole lot better than having humans try to sift through a haystack. Wired Top Stories
- On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
- And approaching that very machine, his last pound coin clutched in his fist, was Felix Henderson McMurdo.
- In all the sale extends to 800 lots, ranging across plant, machinery, tools, office equipment, furniture and computers.
- The machine then applies a thin, even layer of cells to a microscope slide for examination.
- The machine works according to the principle of electromagnetic conduction.
- They said that we were too stupid to handle machinery, even if we did use it.
- My knife slips off the screw and with a grating screech marks the white surface of the machine.
- Knowing the innate power of the press, he bought a mimeograph machine.
- Machines soon wear out under rough usage.