machine : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions
  totaliser; totalizer.
  

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• noun a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing
  Addressograph.
  

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• noun an electronic device that answers the telephone and records messages
  

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• noun an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
  ATM; automatic teller; automated teller machine; automated teller; automatic teller machine; cash dispenser.
  

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• noun an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
  ATM; automatic teller; automated teller machine; automated teller; automatic teller machine; cash dispenser.
  

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• noun a building containing dressing rooms for bathers
  bathhouse.
  

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• a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

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• noun a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure
  ventilator; breathing device; breathing apparatus.
  

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• noun a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute; used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War
  Peacemaker.
  

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• a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

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Burr"ing ma*chine"

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1. A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

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• adverb with the use of a machine
  
  • the shirt is sewn by machine

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• noun a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations
  calculator.
  

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• a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

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• a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions, The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.

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• noun an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
  ATM; automatic teller; automated teller machine; automated teller; automatic teller machine; cash dispenser.
  

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• A machine for expelling water or other fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of different densities by centrifugal action; a whirling table.

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• noun a machine that is operated by the insertion of a coin in a slot
  coin machine.
  

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• (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.

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• noun a machine for performing calculations automatically
  data processor; information processing system; computing device; electronic computer; computer.
  

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• a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles leather, iron, etc.

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• noun a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes
  dialyzer.
  

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• noun a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes
  

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• noun a machine for washing dishes
  dishwasher; dish washer.
  

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• a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.

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• a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

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• an apparatus for generating, collecting, or exciting, electricity, as by friction.

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• noun electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity
  electrostatic machine; electrostatic generator; Van de Graaff generator.
  

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

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• noun duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio
  fax; facsimile.
  

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• a machine for separating seed from chaff, etc., by a blast of air; a fanner.

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• noun a machine used in farming
  

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• an apparatus for navigating the air; a form of balloon.

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• a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle.

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• noun a machine that automatically stamps letters or packages passing through it and computes the total charge
  

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• . See Ice machine, under Ice.

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• an electrical machine, generating electricity by friction.

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• a machine for friezing cloth; a friezing machine.

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• . (a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth. (b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards.

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• noun a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials; certain combinations win money for the player
  

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• (Mech.), an apparatus for illustrating certain principles in statics, consisting of a cord or chain attached at one end to a fixed point, and having the other passed over a pulley and sustaining a weight, while one or more other weights are suspended from the cord at points between the fixed support and the pulley.

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• an apparatus for carbureting air for use as illuminating gas.

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• . See Gig, 4.

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Gramme" ma*chine"

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1. (Elec.) A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.

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• noun a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines
  hovercraft.
  

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• noun a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery; diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body
  

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• (Physics), an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the escape of high-pressure steam from a series of jets connected with a strong boiler, in which the steam is produced.

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• noun an electric refrigerator to supply ice cubes
  

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• (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.

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• noun a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time
  time bomb.
  

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• a machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property.

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• . (a) (Mining) A machine for separating ore by the process of jigging . (b) (Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a templet by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; used for forming the profile of an irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine.

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• a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc.

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• noun a textile machine that makes knitted fabrics
  

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• one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like.

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• (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.

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• . See Health lift, under Health.

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• noun a submachine gun not greater than .30 millimeter
  

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• noun a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal
  Linotype.
  

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• noun duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern
  lithograph.
  

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• noun a bolt with a square or hexagonal head on one end and a threaded shaft on the other end; tightened with a wrench; used to connect metal parts
  

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• noun a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
  machine code.
  

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• noun a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)
  
• verb shoot with a machine gun
  

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• . See under Gun.

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• noun a serviceman in the artillery
  artilleryman; cannoneer; gunner.
  

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• noun a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
  computer language; machine language; computer-oriented language.
  
• noun a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
  machine code.
  

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• noun an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform
  computer operation.
  

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• noun a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun
  burp gun.
  

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• noun a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
  hack; political hack; ward-heeler.
  

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• adjective suitable for feeding directly into a computer
  computer readable.
  

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• noun a machine-readable version of a standard dictionary; organized alphabetically
  MRD; electronic dictionary.
  

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• noun light machine gun
  automatic; automatic rifle.
  

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• noun a screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole; slotted head can be driven by a screwdriver
  

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

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• noun workshop where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools
  

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

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• noun a sewing stitch made by a sewing machine, sometimes using more than one thread
  machine stitch.
  

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• noun a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials
  

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• 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.

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• noun the use of computers to translate from one language to another
  MT.
  

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• silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine.

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• verb wash by machine
  machine wash.
  
  • Can these shirts be machine-washed?

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

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• adjective satellite stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer
  connected.
  

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• adjective satellite operated by automation
  machine-controlled; automated.
  
  • an automated stoker

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• noun electronic text that is stored and used in the form of a digital image
  

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• adjective satellite operated by automation
  machine-controlled; automated.
  
  • an automated stoker

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• adjective made by machine
  

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• noun a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
  computer language; machine language; computer-oriented language.
  

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• noun electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats
  

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• verb wash by machine
  machine wash.
  
  • Can these shirts be machine-washed?

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• a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.

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• noun a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine
  magneto.
  

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• a planing machine for forming a tongue or a groove on the edge of a board.

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• noun diathermy machine that uses microwave radiation as the source of heat
  

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• noun the military forces of a nation
  armed forces; military; armed services; military machine.
  
  • their military is the largest in the region
  • the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker

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• noun machine consisting of a suction apparatus for milking cows mechanically
  

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• noun machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it
  miller.
  

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• a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters.

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• noun a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo)
  Roneograph; mimeo; Roneo; mimeograph.
  

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• noun a kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces
  mincer.
  

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• a formula expressing the work which a given machine can perform under the conditions involved in its construction; the relation between the work done upon a machine by the moving power, and that yielded at the working points, either constantly, if its motion be uniform, or in the interval of time which it occupies in passing from any given velocity to the same velocity again, if its motion be variable; called also the efficiency of the machine. Mosley. Rankine.

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• . (a) (Woodworking) A planing machine for making moldings . (b) (Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.

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• an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It is drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by steam.

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• a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc.

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• noun computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won
  totalizator; totaliser; totalisator; totalizer.
  

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• noun a machine for laying pavement
  paviour; pavior.
  

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• noun a machine that can continue to do work indefinitely without drawing energy from some external source; impossible under the law of conservation of energy
  

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• noun a duplicating machine that makes quick positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper
  Photostat.
  

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• noun game equipment on which pinball is played
  pin table.
  
  • in Britain they call a pinball machine a pin table

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• noun a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
  plane; planer.
  

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• . (a) See Planer. (b) A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.

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• noun a group that controls the activities of a political party
  machine.
  
  • he was endorsed by the Democratic machine

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• a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.

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• noun a machine that prints
  printer.
  

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• a jigging machine.

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• a machine tool for punching holes in metal or other material; called also punch press.

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• noun equipment for making records
  recorder; recording equipment.
  

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• noun a machine for driving rivets
  rivetter; riveter.
  

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• a machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine.

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• noun a power tool for cutting wood
  power saw; saw.
  

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• . (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods.

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• . See Screw machine, under Screw.

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• the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; called also scribbler.

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• a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; called also batting machine.

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• a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

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• noun a textile machine used as a home appliance for sewing
  

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• a machine for sewing or stitching.

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• noun someone who sews by operating a sewing machine
  

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• noun a sewing stitch made by a sewing machine, sometimes using more than one thread
  machine stitch.
  

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• noun a machine tool for shaping metal or wood
  shaper.
  

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• . (Mach.) Same as Shaper.

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• . (a) A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal . (b) A machine for shearing cloth.

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• noun a diathermy machine that uses short wave radiation as the source of heat
  

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• noun a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
  machine.
  

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• a milling machine.

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• noun a machine that is operated by the insertion of a coin in a slot
  coin machine.
  

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• the machine by which slubs are formed.

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• noun a textile machine for spinning yarn and thread
  

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• a machine tool for cutting grooves, key seats, or slots; a slotting machine.

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• noun a power tool that stamps
  stamper.
  
  • a metal stamper

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• a machine for forming metallic articles or impressions by stamping.

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• noun a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together
  stapler.
  

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• noun a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape
  tape recorder.
  

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• noun a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
  teletype machine; teletypewriter; telex; teleprinter.
  

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• noun a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
  teletype machine; teletypewriter; telex; teleprinter.
  

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• (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

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• noun a machine for making textiles
  

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• a machine for separating grain from the straw.

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• noun a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
  thresher; thrasher.
  

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• noun a science fiction machine that is supposed to transport people or objects into the past or the future
  

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• to cause it to perform its revolutions or action in the opposite direction.

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• noun a hypothetical computer with an infinitely long memory tape
  

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• noun a printer that sets textual material in type
  

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• noun a slot machine for selling goods
  

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• noun any digital computer incorporating the ideas of stored programs and serial counters that were proposed in 1946 by von Neumann and his colleagues
  

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• noun a mechanical device for recording and counting votes mechanically
  

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• noun the military forces of a nation
  armed forces; military; armed services; military machine.
  
  • their military is the largest in the region
  • the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker

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• noun a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically
  washer; automatic washer.
  

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• a machine for washing; specifically, a machine for washing clothes.

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• noun a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
  scale.
  

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• any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.

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• . Same as 1st Willow, 2

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• noun electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity
  electrostatic machine; electrostatic generator; Van de Graaff generator.
  

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• . (a) A wince. Ure. (b) A succession of winces. See Wince.

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• a wringer. See Wringer, 2.

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• . Same as Typewriter.

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• noun an apparatus that provides a source of X rays
  

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• noun a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder
  Xerox; xerographic copier.
  

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