machine
- noun
- /məˈʃin/
- And when the machine breaks, that's the end.
- use machines
- a washing machine
- an ATM machine
Why don't we invent a machine to knead the dough for us?
- Why don't we invent a machine to knead the dough for us?
- But Maxim's Flying Captive flying machine was designed not to fly.
- Yeah, you know, the motion of a machine from a design.
- We need large machines to to collect deep.
Examples
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If I can do that, if I can get in there, I want you to operate this machine.
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An assembly line moves a product forward while workers and machines add subassemblies to the product.
Academic text (2012) -
Yeah, I even got one of those, um, white noise machines, right?
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So in addition to that, this machine has a spark gap.
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Another team of students designed a trash-separating machine that could work day and night.
Academic text (2015) -
Please don't forget to take your laundry out of the machine this time.
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Our lives are filled with ordinary mechanical tools and machines, which computers simply can't replace.
Academic text (2011) -
Why don't we invent a machine to knead the dough for us?
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The engineer designed a new machine to improve factory productivity.
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This coffee machine brews a delicious cup in under five minutes.
Synonyms
A machine or tool made to do a particular job
A machine used at home for jobs like cooking and cleaning
A group of moving parts that work together to do a job
A machine with moving parts that does a particular job
Antonyms
A thing you hold and use with your hands, not powered by a machine, like a hammer or screwdriver
Idioms
Trying very hard even when facing a much stronger opponent
Compounds
A machine that picks up phone calls and records messages when people cannot talk
- US
A machine in a casino where you put coins and spin pictures to try to win money
- Specialized
A machine that uses X rays to take pictures of the inside of the body or of bags
- Specialized
A workshop where people use tools to cut and shape metal or hard materials
A machine that makes strong coffee by forcing hot water through finely ground beans
A coin-operated game with a tilted table where flippers keep a metal ball moving to score points
- Offensive
A person who others see as very attractive and confident with partners in private
A machine that helps a person get air into their lungs when they cannot do it on their own
- Specialized
A machine that removes waste and extra fluid from a person's blood when their kidneys fail
- Specialized
A machine used during heart surgery that pumps and adds oxygen to the blood
- Specialized
A machine used by Germany in World War II to send secret coded messages
A machine that gives you cash from your bank account when you use a bank card and secret number
A machine outside banks that gives cash and lets you do basic banking with a card and a code
- Specialized
A set of instructions in numbers that a computer's processor can run directly
- Archaic
A machine that makes whole lines of metal letters from a keyboard for printing
- Specialized
A basic tool like a lever or pulley that makes work easier by changing the force
A machine that covers paper or cards with a thin plastic layer to protect them
- Specialized
A programming language made of 0s and 1s that a computer runs directly
- Specialized
A computer program that changes text or speech from one language into another
- Specialized
A tool with a spinning cutter that cuts and shapes metal and other hard materials
- Specialized
A simple machine that shows how a computer can work by reading and writing symbols on an endless tape
- Archaic
A small hut on wheels used on old beaches for changing clothes and entering the sea privately
- Specialized
A machine that makes prints by using a flat stone or metal plate to hold ink
- Specialized
A metal screw with the same width along its length used with a nut or in a threaded hole
- Archaic
A machine that makes many paper copies by pressing ink through a stencil
- Archaic
An early machine that counts and sorts information from cards with holes
- Specialized
A machine that presses material like metal to make shapes or marks
A machine that fastens sheets of paper by pushing small metal clips through them
- Specialized
A machine that cleans fibers by removing stems and dirt from cotton, silk, or flax
- Specialized
A machine that sews hems so the stitches are not seen from the outside
- Specialized
A sewing machine that joins fabric so the thread is not seen on the outside of clothes
- Specialized
A machine that makes hollow plastic items like bottles by heating plastic and using air to shape it
- Specialized
A machine that briefly boils vegetables and fruit before cooling for freezing or canning
How Automated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Machine comes from the Latin machina (from Greek mēkhanē) that meant 'device' or 'trick', and it is the same root you see in mechanic. So a machine is a device that uses power and moving parts to do a job.