Definitions for machine

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machine ma·chine

Spelling: [muh-sheen]

IPA: /məˈʃin/

Machine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in machine (acehimn).

Definitions for machine

noun

1. an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work:
2. a mechanical apparatus or contrivance; mechanism.
3. Mechanics. a device that transmits or modifies force or motion. Also called simple machine. any of six or more elementary mechanisms, as the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, wedge, and inclined plane. Also called complex machine. a combination of simple machines.
4. Older Use. an automobile or airplane. a typewriter.
5. a bicycle or motorcycle.
6. a vending machine:
7. any complex agency or operating system:
8. an organized group of persons that conducts or controls the activities of a political party or organization:
9. a person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner:
10. any of various contrivances, especially those formerly used in theater, for producing stage effects.
11. some agency, personage, incident or other feature introduced for effect into a literary composition.

verb (used with object)

1. to make, prepare, or finish with a machine or with machine tools.

Origin of machine

1540-50; French Latin māchina Doric Greek māchanā́ pulley, akin to mâchos contrivance; cf. mechanic

Examples for machine

The machine, Rains said, would record scores of up to 1,000,000 points.

Once more the sun flashed on her hair; then the machine disappeared.

The man had no fear, he had no nerves; he was a machine, and death was his business.

The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.

But, once again in the machine, he bent over and put his cheek against hers.

And the more some of them have had to drink, the more they want to drive the machine.

They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

The player starts out with a fleet of three or four ships (depending on the machine), which he operates one at a time.

Check: “This atom smashing business is going to herald the final victory of the machine.”

At the risk of overturning the machine he veered it sharply to the left.