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Definitions of 'machine' 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"


Definitions of 'machine' Webster 1913 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 prime mover 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

4. (noun) machine
a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine

5. (noun) machine
a political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends

6. (noun) machine
supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit

7. (verb) machine
to subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine


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