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Machine

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

Pronunciation: /məˈʃiːn/, /məˈʃin/

What “Machine” means

Noun

  1. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
  2. A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
  3. An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
  4. A computer.
  5. A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

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.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.? Ancient Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ) Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́)bor. Latin māchinabor. Middle French machinebor. English machine Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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