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Wikipedia has an article on: MachineEtymology
From Middle French machine < Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”) < Ancient Greek μαχανά (makhana), Doric spelling of μηχανή (mēkhanē), “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”) < μῆχος (mēkhos), “means”).
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machine (plural machines)
- A mechanical or electrical device that performs or assists in the performance of human tasks, or is used for amusement (like a pinball machine).
- The group that controls a political or similar organization.
- (archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
- The government has become a money-making machine.
- (telephony, abbreviation) answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
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- See also Wikisaurus:machine
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to machine (third-person singular simple present machines, present participle machining, simple past and past participle machined)
- to make by machinery.
- to shape or finish by machinery.
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External links
- machine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- machine in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on: MachinePronunciation
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machine f. (plural machines, diminutive machientje or machinetje, diminutive plural machientjes or machinetjes)
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machine f. (plural machines)
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