1. (n.)machine an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
2. machine a device that transmits or modifies force or motion.
3. machine a combination of simple machines.
4. machine an automobile or airplane.
5. machine any of various apparatus, devices, etc., that dispense things, esp. a vending machine.
6. machine any complex agency or operating system: the machine of government.
7. machine a group of persons that conducts or controls a political party or organization.
8. machine a person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner.
9. machine a mechanical contrivance formerly used for producing stage effects.
10. machine a literary contrivance introduced for special effect.
11. (v.t.)machine to make, prepare, or finish with a machine or machine tool.
Etymology: (1540–50; < F < L māchina < Attic Gk mēchanē; see mechanic
Definition of 'Machine'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)machine any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
2. (noun)machine an efficient person "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"
3. (noun)machine an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently "the war machine"
4. (noun)machine, simple machine a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
5. (noun)machine, political machine a group that controls the activities of a political party "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"
6. (verb)car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine "he needs a car to get to work"
7. (verb)machine turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery
8. (verb)machine make by machinery "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"
1. (noun)machine a device with moving parts, for doing a particular task the machine that stamps letters at the post office; a washing machine; the employees that operate/run the machines
Definition of 'Machine'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Machine 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 primemover 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
2. (noun)Machine any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle
3. (noun)Machine a person who acts mechanically or at will of another
Sense: a working arrangement of wheels, levers or other parts, driven eg by human power, electricity etc, or operating electronically, producing power and/or motion for a particular purpose a sewing-machine.
Definitions of Machine 
Afrikaans: masjien
Arabic: ماكينَه، آله
Bulgarian: машина
Brazilian: máquina
Czech: stroj
German: die Maschine
Danish: maskine; -maskine
Greek: μηχανή, μηχάνημα
Spanish: máquina
Estonian: masin
Farsi: دستگاه؛ ماشین
Finnish: kone
French: machine
Hebrew: מְכוֹנָה
Hindi: मशीन, कल, यंत्र
Croatian: stroj, mašina
Hungarian: gép
Indonesian: mesin
Icelandic: vél, tæki
Italian: macchina
Japanese: 機械
Korean: 기계 장치
Lithuanian: mašina, aparatas
Latvian: mehānisms; aparāts
Malay: mesin
Dutch: machine
Norwegian: maskin
Polish: maszyna
Persian: دستگاه؛ ماشین
Pashto: د ماشين دستګاه
Portuguese: máquina
Romanian: maşină
Russian: механизм; машин(к)а
Slovak: stroj
Slovenian: stroj
Serbian: mašina
Swedish: maskin
Thai: เครื่องจักร
Turkish: makine
Taiwanese: 機器
Ukrainian: машина
Urdu: مشین، کل
Vietnamese: cỗ máy
Chinese: 机械
