Meaning of machine | Babel Free

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1. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect
2. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
3. Of, relating to, or felt to resemble a machine: machine repairs; machine politics.
4. A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane
5. champ; champion
6. A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
   dated
7. An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
   abbreviation
8. To cut, shape, or finish by machine.
9. An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail
10. A computer.
11. To be cut, shaped, or finished by machine: This metal machines easily.
12. A computer
13. A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
    figuratively
14. A device performing work, especially where a smaller force or effort moves a greater load.
15. A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional
16. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
17. a person skilled in the use of machines, eg a sewing-machine, or electrical tools. She's a machinist in a clothes factory. masjinis ميكانيكي машинист mecânico mechanik der Maschinist, die Maschinennäherin maskinist; maskinarbejder χειριστής μηχανής mecánico, operario masinal töötaja ماشین کار koneenkäyttäjä opérateur/-trice מכונאי मशीन वाला strojar gépész ahli mesin vélamaður; maður sem vinnur við vél (operatore di macchina utensile), (chi lavora a macchina) 機械[]工 기계 숙련공 mašinistas, šaltkalvi...
    eg
18. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
19. an automatic gun that fires very rapidly. masjiengeweer مِدْفَع رَشّاش автомат metralhadora kulomet das Maschinengewehr maskingevær πολυβόλοametralladora kuulipilduja مسلسل konekivääri mitrailleuseמקלע यांत्रिक बंदूक strojnica gépfegyver senapan mesin vélbyssa mitragliatrice 機関銃 기관총 kulkosvaidis ložmetējs senapang mesin machinegeweermaskingeværkarabin maszynowy هغه وسله چى مسلسل ګوزارونه كوى metralhadora пулемёт guľomet strojnica mitraljez kulspruta ปืนกล makineli tüfek 機關槍 кулемет مسلسل گولی...
20. The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
    US
21. He machine-gunned a crowd of defenceless villagers. met 'n masjiengeweer geskiet يَرُش بِمِدْفَع رَشّاش разстрелвам metralhar ostřelovat kulometem mit einem Maschinengewehr beschießen skyde med maskingevær; meje ned med maskingevær πολυβολώ ametrallar kuulipildujast tulistama به تیر بار بستن ampua konekiväärillä mitrailler לִירוֹת בְּמִקלָע मशीनगन, यंत्रशतन्घी pucati iz strojnice belelő menembak skjóta á e-n með vélbyssu mitragliare 機銃掃射する 기총소사하다 šaudyti iš kulkosvaidžio apšaudīt ar ložmetēju...
22. Penis.
    euphemistic, obsolete
23. a power-driven machine that shapes metal, wood, or plastics by cutting, pressing, or drilling. kraggereedskapstuk ماكِنَة لِقَطْع وَتَشْكيل المَعادِن металообработваща машина máquina operatriz obráběcí stroj die Werkzeugmaschine værktøjsmaskine εργαλειομηχανή máquina herramienta tööpink ابزار ماشینی sähkötyökalu machine-outil מְכוֹנַת כֵּלִים मशीन औजार strojni alat szerszámgép alat mesin smíðavél macchina utensile 工作機械 공작 기계 staklės darbgalds alat mesin machinaal aangedreven werktuig verktøym...
24. A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
    historical
25. aparato, máquina.
26. A bathing machine.
    obsolete
27. A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that modifies mechanical energy and transmits it in a more useful form.

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Examples

“An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.”

“As he stood directly beneath a brilliant arc light, waiting for a limousine that was approaching to pass him, he heard his name called in a sweet feminine voice. Looking up, he met the smiling eyes of Olga de Coude as she leaned forward upon the back seat of the machine. He bowed very low in response to her friendly greeting. When he straightened up the machine had borne her away.”

“As the aviator turned his machine to reconnoitre in the new direction, he was surprised to see the hostile aeroplane between him and his objective.”

“"Joe, how soon will you be ready to roll?" Frank Hardy burst into the garage where his brother was working on a sleek, black-and-silver motorcycle. "Right now, if this machine kicks over," Joe replied, putting down a wrench.”

“Now, here, he is a Racer. He throws his leg over the machine and settles onto the narrow rubber seat. He pushes it through its revolution twice with his hand, slowly, to force the fuel into the carburetor. Then he stands with his left foot on the peg and jumps down on the lever with his right. The engine starts immediately; he takes very good care of his machine. He sits down, waiting for it to warm up. He caresses the top of the tank, understanding that the machine cannot feel the gesture but content that he can.”

“I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.”

“Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.”

“He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.”

“Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.”

“The government has become a money-making machine.”

“The whole machine of government, civil and religious, ought never to bear upon the people with a weight so oppressive”

“I am apt to think, that the changing of the Trojan fleet into water-nymphs, which is the most violent machine in the whole Æneid[…]”

“A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket (as he and his clique of party bosses prepare it) should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party.”

“In essence, therefore, the right-fork strategy of the Democrats meant an alliance of the South with the political machines built on the non-Protestant immigrants in key Northeastern states.”

“He was thrust into a political maelstrom for which he was ill-prepared, and yet he was, most notably, the Chicago machine's political savior.”

“He now reſumes his attempts in more form: firſt he put one of the pillows under me, to give the blank of his aim a more favourable elevation, and another under my head, in eaſe of it: then ſpreading my thighs, and placing himſelf ſtanding between them, made them reſt upon his hips: applying then the point of his machine to the ſlit, into which he ſought entrance;”

Fanny Hill

“One Machine only was provided for Bathers, the Limitted smoothness of the sands not extending widely enough to admit another.”

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