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Definition of machine

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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

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Invent :: Invent (v. t.) To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood..

Slabber :: Slabber (n.) A slabbing machine.

Simplicity :: Simplicity (n.) The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine..

Planer :: Planer (n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals..

Drop :: Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck..

Cow :: Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.

Comb :: Comb (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

Bailer :: Bailer (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit..

Spreadingly :: Spreader (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

Crab :: Crab (a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

Winch :: Winch (n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc..

Dredge :: Dredge (v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.

Temperer :: Temperer (n.) One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water..

Mule :: Mule (n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny..

Aeroplane :: Aeroplane (n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it..

Envelop :: Envelop (n.) A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine..

Node :: Node (n.) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.

Mill :: Mill (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter..

Bush :: Bush (n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.