machine
- noun
- /məˈʃin/
- Informal
- This guy is a machine.
- killing machine
- a human machine
The kids are as near to machines as the coach can make them.
- The kids are as near to machines as the coach can make them.
- But it should just say I'm a machine in some some form.
Examples
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And we are just incentive machines like human beings.
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He had become a machine, like in his thinking.
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We are people, but we're just machines anyway.
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I am the master, and you are the machine.
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My mind rattled on fast as a machine sometimes, ran its own way without my participation.
Fiction book (1995) -
Human beings, if they have to be modeled as machines, are nontrivial machines.
Academic text (1991) -
Despite the challenges, he tackled every project like a machine, showing no signs of fatigue.
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Her productivity was so impressive that everyone referred to her as a machine for getting work done.
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In the gym, he trains like a machine, pushing through every set without rest.
Synonyms
A person or machine that does a lot of steady hard work
Antonyms
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 Efficient
Surface Forms
Etymology
Calling someone a machine uses the same idea: the word comes from a word for a device, so a person described as a machine works with great power and steady speed, almost without stopping. This explains why it means a very efficient or relentless worker.