Definition of machine

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

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Jack :: Jack (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..
Tenter :: Tenter (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square..
Rigger :: Rigger (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
Velocimeter :: Velocimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles..
Machine :: Machine (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends..
Director :: Director (n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
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..
Thresher :: Thresher (n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine..
Tool :: Tool (n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
Polygraph :: Polygraph (n.) An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.
Follower :: Follower (n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
Speeder :: Speeder (n.) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.
Rocker :: Rocker (n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water..
Bite :: Bite (v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another..
Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press..
Lift :: Lift (n.) An exercising machine.
Squeezing :: Squeezer (n.) A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used in the singular.
Winch :: Winch (n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc..
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