English to English noun
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any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks |  | source: wordnet30
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an efficient person |  | Example: the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine
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an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently |  | Example: the war machine
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a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point |  | source: wordnet30
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a group that controls the activities of a political party |  | Example: he was endorsed by the Democratic machine
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a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine |  | Example: he needs a car to get to work
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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. |  | source: webster1913 verb
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turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery |  | source: wordnet30
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make by machinery |  | Example: The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars
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To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine. |  | source: webster1913
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