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▸ 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.
Similar:
simple machine,
political machine,
auto,
motorcar,
automobile,
car,
mach,
machinery,
Machin,
computer,
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Types:
computer,
laptop,
tablet,
smartphone,
television,
microwave,
blender,
coffee maker,
toaster,
more...
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