MPage 5
- English Word Machine Definition 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.
- English Word Machine Definition Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
- English Word Machine Definition To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
- English Word Machine Definition Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- English Word Machine Definition A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
- English Word Machine Definition A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
- English Word Machined Definition of Machine
- English Word Machiner Definition One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
- English Word Machinery Definition Machines, in general, or collectively.
- English Word Machinery Definition 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.
- English Word Machinery Definition The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
- English Word Machinery Definition 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.
- English Word Machining Definition Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.
- English Word Machining Definition of Machine
- English Word Machinist Definition A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
- English Word Machinist Definition One skilled in the use of machine tools.
- English Word Machinist Definition A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
- English Word Macho Definition The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).
- English Word Macilency Definition Leanness.
- English Word Macilent Definition Lean; thin.
- English Word Macintosh Definition Same as Mackintosh.
- English Word Mackerel Definition A pimp; also, a bawd.
- English Word Mackerel Definition Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several related genera. They are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are highly prized for food.
- English Word Mackinaw Definition A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.
- English Word Mackinaw blanket Definition Alt. of Mackinaw
- English Word Mackintosh Definition A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
- English Word Mackle Definition Same Macule.
- English Word Mackle Definition To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.
- English Word Macle Definition A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.
- English Word Macle Definition Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.