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 motorvehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustionengine "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 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