Word Meaning

Meaning of machines

- 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.
- Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
- A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
- A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
- A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
- Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Crossword clue for machines

- Apparatus
- Device
- Device found last month in foreign cinema
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- Engine
- Mechanical apparatus
- Powered by an engine
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- Useful device
- Apparatuses
- Devices