Machine

Quick meaning: Machine is a noun meaning A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

Meaning

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

More Meanings

1. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
2. (computing) A computer.
3. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
4. (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
5. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
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. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

Example Sentences

He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.

I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.

Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.

As the aviator turned his machine to reconnoitre in the new direction, he was surprised to see the hostile aeroplane between him and his objective.

Word Forms

• machines
• machining
• machined

Synonyms for machine

Depending on context, synonyms include engine, automobile, car, auto, motorcar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include auto, automobile, motorcar, car, mechanism, device.

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