English to English Dictionary -machinery

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Burring Machine :: Burring machine () A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances..

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

Machine :: Machine (n.) 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

Machine :: Machine (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle..

Machine :: Machine (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

Machine :: Machine (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine..

Machine :: Machine (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends..

Machine :: Machine (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit..

Machine :: Machine (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Machined :: Machined (imp. & p. p.) of Machin.

Machiner :: Machiner (n.) One who or operates a machine; a machinist.

Machinery :: Machinery (n.) Machines, in general, or collectively..

Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch..

Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected..

Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.