Definitions for machineries

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machineries ma·chin·er·y

Spelling: [muh-shee-nuh-ree]

IPA: /məˈʃi nə ri/

Machineries is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1044 anagrams from letters in machineries (aceehiimnrs).

Definitions for machineries

noun

1. an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses:
2. the parts of a machine, collectively:
3. a group of people or a system by which action is maintained or by which some result is obtained:
4. a group of contrivances for producing stage effects.
5. the group or aggregate of literary machines, especially those of supernatural agency (epic machinery) in an epic poem.

Origin of machineries

First recorded in 1680-90; machine + -ery

Examples for machineries

These machineries are all the inventions of a single age, and constitute a new era in human Society.

She dwelt in a strange realm of unknown colors and machineries.

But the Greek machineries of social life were absolutely and essentially limited by nature to a Grecian latitude.

I told them the wonderful arts, the machineries, railways and the telegraphs.