English to English
noun
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
source: WordNet 3.0
- an efficient person
The boxer was a magnificent fighting machine.
source: WordNet 3.0
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
The war machine.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
source: WordNet 3.0
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
He was endorsed by the Democratic machine.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
He needs a car to get to work.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery
source: WordNet 3.0
- make by machinery
The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
noun
- [machín] Mákina
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
