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turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery

any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks

a group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"

an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently; "the war machine"

an efficient person; "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"

make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"

turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery

any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks

a group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"

an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently; "the war machine"

an efficient person; "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"

make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"

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.

Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

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.

Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Any contrivance to produce, increase, and regulate the power of motion so as to do work; an engine; an automobile; a political organization which controls the policies and activities of a party.

Any artificial means or contrivance: an instrument formed by combining two or more of the mechanical powers: an engine: (fig.) supernatural agency in a poem: one who can do only what he is told.

A piece of mechanism; contrivance.

A mechanical arrangement for utilizing power; engine.

An organization, as to control political patronage.

To print with a machine.

Any contrivance or thing which serves to increase or regulate the effects of a given force, as steam, water, or wind; a complex structure or instrument contrived to lessen or supersede human labour; an engine; a coach or light conveyance.

A more or less compound instrument or arrangement for putting a body in motion, or for producing any action whatever. Physiologists sometimes use it for the animal body; - as the machine or animal machine.