Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MACHINE

MACHINE

Definitions of MACHINE

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
to make by machinery.
(dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
(computing) A computer.
(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
(poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(politics, chiefly, US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
(euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
(historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
(obsolete) A bathing machine.
To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.