machine
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See also machinne
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Etymology [edit]
Borrowing from Middle French machine, from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Ancient Greek μαχανά (makhana), Doric spelling of μηχανή (mēkhanē, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from μῆχος (mēkhos, “means”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gh- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”).
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machine (plural machines)
- A mechanical or electrical device that performs or assists in the performance of human tasks, whether physical or computational, laborious or for entertainment.
- (archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
- (computing) A computer.
- Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
- The government has become a money-making machine.
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization.
- (euphemistic) Penis.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 3
- He now resumes his attempts in more form: first, he put one of the pillows under me, to give the blank of his aim a more favourable elevation, and another under my head, in ease of it; then spreading my thighs, and placing himself standing between them, made them rest upon his hips; applying then the point of his machine to the slit, into which he sought entrance
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 3
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- See also Wikisaurus:machine
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mechanical or electrical device
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group that controls an organization
archaic: vehicle, automobile
a person who is very proficient
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Verb [edit]
machine (third-person singular simple present machines, present participle machining, simple past and past participle machined)
- to make by machinery.
- to shape or finish by machinery.
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make by machine
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External links [edit]
- machine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- machine in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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machine f (plural machines, diminutive machientje or machinetje)
- machine (mechanical or electrical device)
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Ancient Greek μαχανά (makhana).
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machine f (plural machines)
- machine (clarification of this French definition is being sought)
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