Machine

[mə'ʃiːn] or [mə'ʃin]

解释:

(noun.) any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks.

(noun.) a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point.

(noun.) a group that controls the activities of a political party; 'he was endorsed by the Democratic machine'.

(noun.) an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently; 'the war machine'.

(noun.) an efficient person; 'the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine'.

(verb.) make by machinery; 'The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars'.

(verb.) turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery.

录入:库尔特--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) 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.

(n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

(n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

(n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

(n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.

(n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

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同义词及近义词：

n. Engine, piece of mechanism.

乔安娜录入

解释:

n. any artificial means or contrivance: any instrument for the conversion of motion: an engine: a coach or conveyance of any kind: one who can do only what he is told: 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—whence the expression Deus ex machĭna for a sudden interposition of Providence: any literary contrivance for the development of a plot: supernatural agency in a poem.—v.t. to use machinery for esp. to print or sew by such: to make by means of machinery.—ns. Machine′-gun a gun firing a great many shots one after the other sometimes as many as 1000 per minute; Machine′-man a man who manages the working of a machine esp. in a printing-office; Machin′ery machines in general: the working parts of a machine: combined means for keeping anything in action or for producing a desired result; Machine′-shop a workshop where machines are made; Machine′-tool an adjustable machine for doing work with cutting-tools or one utilising minor tools as a planing- drilling-machine &c.; Machine′-work work done by a machine; Machin′ist a constructor of machines: one well versed in machinery: one who works a machine.

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