Definitions for machinery

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machinery ma·chin·er·y

Spelling: [muh-shee-nuh-ree]

IPA: /məˈʃi nə ri/

Machinery is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 532 anagrams from letters in machinery (acehimnry).

Definitions for machinery

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 machinery

First recorded in 1680-90; machine + -ery

Examples for machinery

Westport is also working with machinery giant Caterpillar on new locomotives.

As yet the use of machinery and artificial manure is almost unknown.

It always seemed to me as though she were stuffed, and as though she moved by machinery.

There was trouble in that place—moaning, splashing, gurgling, and the clank of machinery.

Only the public can shut down the machinery of death—if it sees it killing.

machinery is a triumph of handicraft as truly as sculpture and architecture.

We have provided the machinery to restore our financial system; it is up to you to support and make it work.

In the same way, bikes no longer look to me like a single mass of machinery.

He had even designed the machinery for making and laying the cable.

While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.