A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that modifies mechanical energy and transmits it in a more useful form.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A device used to produce a stage effect, especially a mechanical means of lowering an actor onto the stage.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A literary device used to produce an effect, especially the introduction of a supernatural being to resolve a plot.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A person who acts in a rigid, mechanical, or unconscious manner.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A simple device, such as a lever, a pulley, or an inclined plane, that alters the magnitude or direction, or both, of an applied force; a simple machine.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
adjective
Of, relating to, or felt to resemble a machine: machine repairs; machine politics.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
verb-intransitive
To be cut, shaped, or finished by machine: This metal machines easily.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
verb-transitive
To cut, shape, or finish by machine.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
verb
To process by or as if by machine.
from Free Scrabble Dictionary
To reduce or finish by or as if by turning, shaping, planing, or milling by machine-operated tools.
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