Usually means: Device designed for specific tasks.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word machine:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. machine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. machine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. machine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. machine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. machine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Machine, machine: Wordnik
  7. machine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. machine: Wiktionary
  9. machine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. machine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. machine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. machine: Dictionary.com
  13. machine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. machine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Machine (Anne-Marie song), Machine (Crack the Sky album), Machine (EP), Machine (Imagine Dragons song), Machine (Static-X album), Machine (band), Machine (disambiguation), Machine (mechanical), Machine (patent), Machine (physics), Machine (producer), Machine, The Machine (band), The Machine (computer architecture), The Machine (film), The Machine (social group), The Machine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Machine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. machine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. machine: Rhymezone
  19. machine, machine (de), machine (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. machine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. machine: Free Dictionary
  22. machine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. machine: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. machine: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. machine: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. machine: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. machine: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. machine: CCI Computer
  3. Machine: Cybernetics and Systems
  4. machine: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. machine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Machine: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. machine: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. machine: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Machine: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Machine: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. machine: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Machine, The Machine: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. machine: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See machinability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
noun:  (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
noun:  (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
noun:  (computing) A computer.
noun:  (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
noun:  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.
noun:  (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
noun:  (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
noun:  (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) A bathing machine.
verb:  To make by machinery.
verb:  To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.

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