MACHINE

Machine

A machine is a tool containing one or more parts that uses energy to perform an intended action. Machines are usually powered by mechanical, chemical, thermal, or electrical means, and are often motorized. Historically, a power tool also required moving parts to classify as a machine. However, the advent of electronics technology has led to the development of power tools without moving parts that are considered machines.

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machine

Noun

  1. A mechanical or electrical device that performs or assists in the performance of human tasks, whether physical or computational, laborious or for entertainment.
  2. A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.
  3. An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
  4. A computer.
  5. A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
  6. 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.
  7. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
  8. Penis.

Verb

  1. to make by machinery.
  2. to shape or finish by machinery.


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