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machine
machine is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 15 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
- 3noun
A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
- 4noun
A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
- 5noun
A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
- 6noun
Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- 7transitive verb
To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
- 8noun
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
"he needs a car to get to work"
Synonyms
- 9noun
any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- 10noun
a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- 11noun
a group that controls the activities of a political party
"he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"
- 12noun
an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
"the war machine"
- 13noun
an efficient person
"the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"
- 14verb
make by machinery
"The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"
- 15verb
turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery
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