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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.
- The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
- This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year.
- 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.
