machine
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Definitions ofmachine
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
- (abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
Example: "I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine."
- A computer.
Example: "Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine."
- A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
Example: "Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons."
- 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.
- Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- Penis.
- A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- A bathing machine.
- To make by machinery.
- To shape or finish by machinery.
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