Word Finder - machine

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A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

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A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

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(abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

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I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.

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A computer.

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Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.

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A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

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Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.

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Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.

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Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

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The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.

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Penis.

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A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.

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A bathing machine.

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To make by machinery.

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To shape or finish by machinery.

No machine will be a politician.

The noise from the machine that circulated the oxygen frightened her.

But what if a machine did everything people really don't want to do?

Maybe he left the machine things...

People used to sweep the streets at night until a machine replaced them.

Have you been using that machine?

The currents were produced by a magneto-electric machine resembling that of Clarke.

No matter how convincing the machine is, once I know it is a machine, I won't care about it anymore.

Outsourcing a job to get it done more cheaply or building a machine to do it more cheaply is really the same.

Their surroundings looked as if someone had left a fog machine on too long in a gym.

The party machine, however, did not give him any support.

Her hair was drawn back severely into a bun and she had black eyes that could render a lie detector machine obsolete.

When they have been reduced to the correct thickness they are examined by the " tryer," who cuts out one or two blanks from each fillet with a hand machine and weighs them on a delicate balance.

The machine should start looking for correlations we would not expect.

It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.

Since leaving college, she'd stayed in shape through the local gym, where she lifted weights and forced herself onto a cardio machine twice a week.

A small door—possibly leading to a bathroom or closet—was closed and blocked by one of Ully.s science toys the size of a copy machine.

A transporter of this kind, when fitted with a grab, is a very efficient machine for taking coal from barges and depositing it in a coal store.

With a steam locomotive all the power is concentrated in one machine, and therefore the weight on the drivers available for adhesion is limited.

With a portion of this sum he obtained release from the last six months of his apprenticeship, and with the rest he purchased a glass-polishing machine.

Amongst the earliest mechanical contrivances of Fraunhofer was a machine for polishing mathematically uniform spherical surfaces.

Besides the royal foundry, with which are connected machine manufactories and boilerworks, there are other foundries, meal mills and manufactories of wire, gas pipes, cement and paper.

Marshalltown is served by the Chicago & North-Western, the Chicago Great Western, and the Iowa Central railways, the last of which has machine shops here.

In the city are machine and car shops of the International & Great Northern railway, and cottoncompresses, and there are manufactures of cotton-seed oil, &c. Taylor, named in honour of Gen.

Columbus is situated in a fine farming region, and has extensive tanneries, threshingmachine and traction and automobile engine works, structural iron works, tool and machine shops, canneries and furniture factories.

In 1718 Sir Thomas and John Lombe set up an improved silkthrowing machine at Derby, and in 1758 Jedediah Strutt introduced a machine for making ribbed stockings, which became famous as the "Derby rib."

God for him is the creator and ruler of the world, but hardly more; he is the master of a vast machine that grinds out human destinies without sympathy with man and without visible regard for what man deems justice - a being to be acknowledged as lord, not one to be loved.

The agricultural trade is extensive, and there are iron, brass and agricultural machine works.

The cubes fall from the cutting machine on to a riddling machine, which separates those which are defective in size from the rest.

The prepared tobacco, while still moist and pliant, is pressed between cylinders into a light cake, and cut into fine uniform shreds by a machine analogous to the chaff-cutter.

From the drum of the twisting machine the spun tobacco is rolled into cylinders of various sizes.

This machine depended simply on the pressure of water acting directly in a cylinder on a piston, which was connected with suitable multiplying gear.

It has iron and brass foundries, machine factories and textile establishments.

The cutting machine used in the Mint is shown in fig.

The revolution of an eccentric A causes two short steel cylinders or cutters mounted on a block of iron B, suitably guided, to enter two holes in a plate fixed to the bed of the machine.

The modern single or " stop " cylinder, quite different in construc- Wharfe= tion from the old single cylinder machines, largely suc dale" ceeded the double platen machine.

The perfecting machine is so named because it produces sheets printed on both sides or, in technical language, " perfected."

This perfecting class of machine has been in use a great many years, Machines.

In the older type of machine it 'is next led up to the right- ' hand one of the two reversing drums, which are placed above the large printing cylinders, and over which it passes with the printed side downwards.

Yes, our body is just a machine for living, that is all.

Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well.

Each of the hotel rooms features a private bedroom with a living room, two cable televisions, mini fridge and microwave, coffee machine, sleep sofa and personal items like a hair dryer, iron and ironing board.

In 1884, at Shrewsbury, a prize of £Ioo was awarded for a sheafbinding reaper, and one of £50 for a similar machine.

In 1886, at Norwich, a prize of 25 was awarded for a thatch-making machine.

In 1889, at Windsor, prizes were awarded for a fruit and vegetable evaporator, a paring and coring machine, a dairy thermometer, parcel post butter-boxes to carry different weights, and a vessel to contain preserved butter.

He found himself looked upon with curiosity as a precocious phenomenon, a "made man," an intellectual machine set to grind certain tunes.

In modern problems we can watch the economic machine actually at work, cross-examine our witnesses, see that delicate interplay of passions and interests which cannot be set down or described in a document, and acquire a certain sense of touch in relation to the questions at issue which manuscripts and records cannot impart.

There are also tanneries, tobacco manufactories, machine works and foundries.

The principal manufactures are hardware, foundry and machine shop products, ammunition and fire-arms (the Winchester Company), carriages and wagons, malt liquors, paper boxes and corsets.

Lowne's machine is useful in specially wide-planted fields and when the ground is sufficiently hard.