machine
/məˈʃin/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- A computer.
- A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- 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.
- To make by machinery.
- To shape or finish by machinery.
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