machine
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- 2.
(dated)A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
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(abbreviation)(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
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(computing) A computer.
Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.
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(figuratively)A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
The government has become a money-making machine.
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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.
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(poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
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(US)(politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
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(euphemistic, obsolete)Penis.
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(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.
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(obsolete)A bathing machine.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To make by machinery.
- 2.
To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.
Nguồn gốc từ
Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick), from μᾱχᾰνᾱ́, cognate with μηχᾰνή, from which comes mechanical. Displaced native searu.