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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Doctor :: Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine..
Fitter :: Fitter (n.) One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
Dismount :: Dismount (v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine..
Pitman :: Pitman (n.) The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery..
Squeezer :: Squeezer (n.) A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural..
Willier :: Willier (n.) One who works at a willying machine.
Manufacture :: Manufacture (n.) The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency..
Belting :: Belting (n.) The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively..
Simplicity :: Simplicity (n.) The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine..
Share :: Share (n.) The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed..
Breaker :: Breaker (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed..
Platen :: Platen (n.) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table..
Machine :: 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
Lift :: Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
Duster :: Duster (n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
Miller :: Miller (n.) A milling machine.
Mechanism :: Mechanism (n.) An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements..
Coal Works :: Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal..
Thresher :: Thresher (n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine..
Lubricant :: Lubricant (n.) That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery..
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