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English to English noun 1. any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks  source: wordnet30
2. an efficient person the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine source: wordnet30
3. an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently the war machine source: wordnet30
4. a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point source: wordnet30
5. a group that controls the activities of a political party he was endorsed by the Democratic machine source: wordnet30
6. a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine he needs a car to get to work source: wordnet30
7. 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 prime mover 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. source: webster1913
verb 8. turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery source: wordnet30
9. make by machinery The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars source: wordnet30
10. To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine. source: webster1913
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