Machine

Ma`chine´ Pronunciation: må`shēnd´

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 the will of another.

A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.

- Landor.

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

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

Elementary machine
a name sometimes given to one of the simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical.

Infernal machine
See under Infernal.

Machine gun
See under Gun.

Machine screw
a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into metal, in distinction from one which is designed especially to be screwed into wood.

Machine shop
a workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc.

Machine tool
a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less general use in a machine shop, in distinction from a machine for producing a special article as in manufacturing.

Machine twist
silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine.

Machine work
work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done by hand labor.

v. t.

To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

[imp. & p. p. Machined (må*shēnd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Machining.]

Noun	1.	machine - any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
	2.	machine - an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently; "the war machine"
	3.	machine - an efficient person; "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"
	4.	machine - 4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" Synonyms: auto, automobile, car, motorcar
	5.	machine - a group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine" Synonyms: political machine
	6.	machine - a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point Synonyms: simple machine
Verb	1.	machine - turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery
	2.	machine - make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"

MACHINE. A contrivance which serves to apply or regulate moving power; or it is a tool more or less complicated, which is used to render useful natural instruments, Clef. des Lois Rom. h.t.
2. The act of congress gives to inventors the right to obtain a patent right for any new and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture, &c. Act of congress, July 4, 1836, s. 6. See Pet. C. C. 394; 3 Wash. C. C. 443; 1 Wash. C. C. 108; 1 Wash. C. C. 168; 1 Mason, 447; Paine, 300; 4 Wash. C. C. 538; 1 How. U. S., 202; S. C. 17 Pet. 228; 2 McLean, 176.

machine - Common term for "computer", usually when considered at the hardware level. The Turing Machine, an early example of this usage, was however neither hardware nor software, but only an idea.

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