What is the meaning of MACHINE. Phrases containing MACHINE
See meanings and uses of MACHINE!Slangs & AI meanings
n slot machine. Putting “fruit” in a name makes it healthy, right?
No, it’s not a 16th century torture device. This safety-first piece of equipment holds a loadable bar in place on vertical poles where it can slide up and down without a hitch. Careful not to confuse it with the power rack, however, as Smith Machine's fixed-plane barbell provides a completely different set of movements than a free weight barbell.
A condom-vending machine.
A car (hot-rodders)
An unloaded flatcar placed before or after a car from which oversize machinery, pipe, or other material projects
Marijuana
A good, righteous airplane. Current airplanes need not apply, this is a nostalgic term referring to birds gone by. By all accounts the F8 Crusader was a tits machine.
A Gang known as the Bloods, say PRAAAAAP! sounding like a machine gun. It is used when 2 Bloods meet and greet.
Men with machine guns
equipment for injecting
G-man Federal agent, term coined by
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v. t.
The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.
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Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
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A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy.
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Machines, in general, or collectively.
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A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.
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One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.
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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.
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One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
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To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.
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A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
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To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
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An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.
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A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.
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A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
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A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
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A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.
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The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
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