Machine

Definition: Machine

Machine

Noun

1. Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks.

2. An intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently; "the war machine".

3. An efficient person; "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine".

4. 4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work".

5. A group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine".

6. A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point.

Verb

1. Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery.

2. Make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "machine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Computing

Engineering & Technology

Mechanical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

MACHINE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Machine

Airpipe

Artificial lung, iron lung, heart and lung machine.

Arms

Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder.

Elevation

Lever; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging machine.

Instrument

Instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine.

Life

Respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung; medical devices .

Mart

Vending machine.

Numeration

Abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer;

Party

Knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall.

Perforator

Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers.

Remedy

Clinical thermometer, stethoscope, X-ray machine.

Rite

Relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, rood, crucifix, pax, pyx, agnus Dei, censer, thurible, patera; eileton, Holy Grail; prayer machine, prayer wheel; Sangraal, urceus.

Subjection

Be a mere machine, be a puppet, be a football; not dare to say one's soul is his own; drag a chain.

Crosswords: Machine

Dutch (engine, machine), French (engine, machine), French Canadian (machine).

Yeah. Could we get a capuccino machine in here (Mission: Impossible; writing credit: Bruce Geller; David Koepp)

This is an espresso machine. (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

Not without an adding machine. Do you have the adding machine with you (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman)

Elliot, that machine, what does it do (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

An Ice Machine on nothing (Ice Machine In The Desert; performing artist: Brave Combo)

Living in the big machine now (Big Machine; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

She was a fast machine (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC)

Russia's greatest love machine (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M)

Long nights crying by the record machine (Crocodile Rock; performing artist: Elton John)

Sleeping on the job: The coffee machine is broken. (references; author: unknown)

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. (references; author: unknown)

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. (references; author: unknown)

You are an engineer if you have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal. (references; author: unknown)

The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine (1974)

Perpetual Motion Machine (1973)

Music Machine (1973)

The Orgy Machine (1972)

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)

Clean Machine (performing artist: Tom Chapin)

Big Machine (performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

Dancing Machine (performing artist: Jackson Five)

Machine #2 (performing artist: Leo Kottke)

LOVE MACHINE (Part 1)� (performing artist: Miracles� )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Advanced Machine Vision Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Aichi Machine Industry Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• NC Machine Tools in Indonesia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Kiriu Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• En la machine ronde : cogitations de l'humour, de l'humanisme, de l'humain (reference)

• The Art of Machine Piecing: How to Achieve Quality Workmanship Through a Colorful Journey (reference)

• Alchemy: Turning Common Stocks into Gold: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Turn the Stock Market Into the Ultimate Cash-Flow Machine (reference)

• Ernest Lee and the Emotion Commotion Pollution Machine (reference)

• Fundamentals of Machine Component Design (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Machine Design (reference)

• Machine Design - Product Locator (reference)

• Machine Knitting Monthly (reference)

• Machine Knitting News (reference)

• Machine Learning : Proceedings Of The International Conference (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mean Machine (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Machine Says Yes (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Corporate Machine (reference)

• Uniden DXAI388-2 900 MHz Cordless Phone with Caller ID, Digital Answering Machine & Extra Handset (reference)

• Kensington Notebook Keypad For Powerbooks With Adding Machine Software (reference)

• Command Communications 4-Port Comswitch Phone/Fax Modem/Ans Machine Line Sharing Dev. (reference)

• HOSA MACHINE SCREWS & WASHERS FOR AUDIO RACKS, 24 pcs. (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Delta MM300 Bench Top Mortising Machine (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Illustration of prototype machine to perform mammography by Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan). Since this machine is used solely for mammography, it is called Positron Emission Mammography (PEM). Credit: Joseph Frank, NIH Diagnostic Imaging.

A technician gives an older woman a mammogram. There are 6 shots in the series. 1) technician and machine, medium shot. 2) technician and machine, long shot. 3) compressed breast close-up. 4) woman preparing for exam next to machine with technician in background adjusting controls. 5) technician and woman at machine. 6) technician and woman at machine, reverse angle. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Employee adjusting controls of a Woodman Machine (glassware washer) at CDC. Credit: CDC.

Glassware washer (Woodman machine). Credit: CDC.

Salad Machine. Credit: NASA.

Analog Computing Machine in Fuel Systems Building. Credit: NASA.

Machine Shop Men Working at Machines. Credit: NASA.

Astronomers using the Hubble telescope as a "time machine" have obtained the clearest views ... Credit: NASA.

Charles D. Sigsbee Commanded the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE Invented Sigsbee Sounding Machine With Alexander Agassiz was first to use steel cable for deepsea oceanography Known for commanding the MAINE when sunk at Havana. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Arrangement of sounding machine on PIONEER Off of PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine. (reference)

Armament (guns, machine guns, light machine guns, bombdropping apparatus, torpedo-dropping apparatus, synchronisation apparatus, aiming apparatus). (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There really wast a lot this machine could do that you couldt do yourself in half the time with a lot less trouble, said Richard, "but it was, on the other hand, very good at being a slow and dim-witted pupil.

The scaffold is not a mere frame, the scaffold is not a machine, the scaffold is not an inert piece of mechanism made of wood, of iron, and of ropes

The coffee machine spurted steam, and the waitress, without looking, reached behind her and shut it off.

Yet the Middlesex Cattle Show goes off here with eclat annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You need a machine. (references)

You don't need a machine. (references)

This machine is called a Cryostat. (references)

Business

Chongqing Machine Tool captures 60% of China's gearing machine market. (references)

This project is called the CNC gear-hobbling machine technology project. (references)

In 2000, the market demand for machine tools will exceed 5.42 billion dollars. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

The attackers destroyed the journalist's camera, fax machine, and furniture, and stole money. (references)

Cuba

It was possible to buy a fax machine or computer, payable in dollars; if a receipt can be produced, this equipment usually was not confiscated. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Key industries include machine building, oil-refining and metallurgy. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

The officers allegedly were trying to rob the boy's family of money that they had just withdrawn from a cash machine. (references)

Guatemala

Presiding Judge Eduardo Cojulun received a death threat on his answering machine several days before the trial opened. (references)

Solomon Islands

In June 2000, Malaitan militants in a police patrol boat used a heavy machine gun to support an attack on Guadalcanalese positions, killing perhaps six Guadalcanalese militants. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

In May an unknown assailant fired a machine gun at the home of an ethnic Serb returnee near Zadar; there were no injuries and no arrests. (references)

Political Economy

Belarus

Primary industrial products include machine tools, tractors, trucks, and consumer durables. (references)

Political Rights

Venezuela

However, standard backup procedures for voting machine failure were generally followed. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Special consumption taxes also apply for services such as dancing, massage, karaoke, casino, jackpot machine games, certain betting activities and golf. (references)

Japan

Japanese machine tool manufacturers set the minimum warranty period at one year, but some manufacturers offer a two-year warranty for their own machines. (references)

Egypt

If the item is replaced by another used machine, having a different serial number from the exported one, then the re-imported item is subject to full custom fees. (references)

Travel

Latvia

Many hotels in Riga have e-mail terminals in the rooms and allow their guests to use the fax machine to receive and send messages. (references)

Korea

Also commonplace is the "no-ray-bang" where a group of businesspeople go to an establishment to drink and sing along to a video machine playing music. (references)

Australia

Before you arrive in Australia, you are advised to check if your communications equipment (for example, mobile phone, fax machine, wireless microphone, notebook computer) is safe to operate in Australia. (references)

Women

Saudi Arabia

Frequently, contact with male supervisors or clients is allowed only by telephone or fax machine. (references)

Switzerland

In September a court in the Canton of Vaud awarded $12,000 (20,000 Swiss francs) in damages to Malica Skrijeli, a machine worker, after she successfully proved that her salary was between 30 and 40 percent lower than that of her male colleagues, despite holding an identical job. (references)

Worker Rights

Zimbabwe

Murungweni reportedly had been operating the machine alone. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Beginning with "machine": machine-accessible, machine-age, machine-aided, machine-assisted, Machine-based, machine-breaker, machine-breakers, machine-breaking, machine-building, machine-chisel, machine-coated, machine-code, machine-controlled, machine-cut, machine-dependent, machine-dictated, machine-displayable text, Machine-drawn, machine-driven, machine-dug, machine-embroidered, machine-feeding, machine-filling, machine-finished, machine-fitter, machine-franked, machine-glazed, machine-gun, machine-gun nest, machine-gun position, machine-gunned, machine-gunner, machine-gunners, machine-gunning, machine-guns, machine-independence, machine-independent, machine-industry, machine-jostled, machine-knitted, machine-learning, machine-level, machine-like, machine-made, machine-maid, machine-man, machine-marked, machine-masters, machine-minder, machine-minders, machine-nature, machine-operator, machine-oriented, machine-oriented language, machine-paced, machine-pacing, machine-pistol, machine-pistols, machine-pressed, machine-printed, machine-produced, machine-producing, machine-readable, machine-readable, machine-readable text, machine-room, machine-selected, machine-sensible, machine-set, machine-setting, machine-shop, machine-smashing, machine-stitched, machine-stitching, machine-stored, machine-sustained, machine-teeth, machine-tending, machine-time, machine-to-machine, machine-tool, machine-tool plant, machine-tooled, machine-tools, machine-tutor, machine-usable, machine-user, machine-using, machine-washable, machine-wave, machine-with-a-difference, machine-works, machine-woven.

Ending with "machine": answering-machine, coffee-machine, record-machine, sewing-machine, source-machine, sub-machine, time-machine, washing-machine.

Containing "machine": sub-machine-gun, sub-machine-guns.

Afrikaans

masjien (engine). (various references)

Albanian

mekanizëm (action, clockwork, device, gear, machinery, mechanism, wheel, work), makine (machinal), makinë (adder, car, engine, machinery, motor, motor car, tool), makina, veturë (car, coach, motor, motor car, saloon, saloon car, saloon carriage, tin lizzie, touring-car, waggon, wagon), biçikletë (bicycle, bike, cycle, push bicycle, roadster), avion (aircraft, airplane, craft, ship, tractor, vessel), automjet (hovercraft, vehicle), aparat (apparatus, device, machinery, mechanism, player). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كائن حي (creature, life, organism), ‏ماكينة, ‏وسيلة أدبية لزيادة التأثير المسرحي, ‏صنع بآلة, ‏آلة (contrivance, instrument). (various references)

Basque

kutxazaina (Automatic Teller Machine), ikuzgailu (washing machine). (various references)

Bemba

fakishi (fax machine). (various references)

Breton

pilhedaouer (ATM machine). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кола (car, carriage, cart, cartful, drag, motor car, quire, starch, wain, wheels), механизъм (action, assembly, contrivance, device, gear, machinery, mechanism, motion, movement, works), машинен (engine, engineering, mechanical), машина (engine, mill), агрегат (aggregate, plant, unit), апарат (apparatus, device, instrument, mechanism, set), превозно средство (transportation), инструмент (implement, instrument, tool, utensil), изработвам на машина, двигател (engine, motor, mover, power plant, propulsion). (various references)

Cebuano

faks (fax machine). (various references)

Chinese 

車 (a vehicle, car, to shape with a lathe, vehicle on land), 机器, 机 (be straight and stiff, opportunity, rather, secret), 機器 , 機械 (mechanical), 機 (opportunity, secret). (various references)

Croatian

bankomat (money teller machine). (various references)

Czech

mašinérie, stroj (engine), obrábìt (work). (various references)

Danish

maskine (engine). (various references)

Dutch

machine (engine). (various references)

Esperanto

maŝino (engine). (various references)

Estonian

sularahaautomaat (cash machine). (various references)

Faeroese

maskina (engine). (various references)

Farsi 

ماشین کردن (Print), ماشین (Apparatus, Engine, Gin, Mechanism, Mill, Motor, Plant), دستگاه (Apparatus, Appurtenance, Machinery, Mechanism, Plant, Set, System), باماشین رفتن . (various references)

Finnish

kone (engine). (various references)

Flemish

geldautomaat (ATM machine). (various references)

French

machine (machinery), usiner (to machine, work on a machine tool). (various references)

French Canadian

machine. (various references)

Frisian

masine (engine). (various references)

German

Maschine (bike, engine, machines, plane, ship, typewriter), maschinell bearbeiten (work on a machine tool). (various references)

Greek 

μηχανή (engine, locomotive, motor, motorbike, motorcycle). (various references)

Haitian Creole

machin. (various references)

Hebrew 

מכו� �" (called, designated, engine, entitled, named, so called). (various references)

Hungarian

gép (appliance, clips, cultivator, disintegrator, engine, exploder, guillotine). (various references)

Icelandic

vél (engine). (various references)

Indonesian

mesin (engine, machinery, munition), pesawat (instrument, plane, telephone instrument). (various references)

Inuktitut

sukajuqkuuruti (fax machine), irmigut (washing machine). (various references)

Italian

macchina (car, engine, machinery, motor, motorcar). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

マグマ溜り (Macedonia, machine gun, machine language, machine-room, machine-vision, magma reservoir, marshmallow, Maserati, Massachusetts, McGraw Hill, mother complex, Mother Goose, mother tape, mothering, motherland, Mother's Day, Oedipus complex, sexual attraction to one's mother), 機械　 (mechanism), 機械 (mechanism). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

マシン , マシーン , きかい (chance, instrument, mechanism, mysterious, opportunity, outrageous, shogi circles, strange, the goworld, weird, wonderful). (various references)

Korean 

기계 (mechanical). (various references)