machine
noun/məˈʃiːn/
Слово англійською: machine
Переклад machine українською: машина
Детальний опис
- (often in compounds) a piece of equipment with many parts that work together to do a particular task. The power used to work a machine may be electricity, steam, gas, etc. or human power.
- Machines have replaced human labour in many industries.
- to operate/run a machine
- How does this machine work?
- a washing/sewing machine
- a machine for making plastic toys
- They have installed a new coffee machine in the staff room.
- to invent/design a machine
- In the factory he oversees 14 teams of machine operators.
- by machine The potatoes are planted by machine.
- a computer
- The new machines will be shipped next month.
- We build machines that process data.
- All machines are connected online to reach specialists in Germany.
- (informal) a particular machine, for example in the home, when you do not refer to it by its full name
- Just put those clothes in the machine (= the washing machine).
- Is the machine working again?
- an organized system for achieving something and the people who control it
- the president’s propaganda machine
- He played the Republican political machine to get himself into power.
- These years saw a massive growth in the US military machine.
- Hollywood’s slick public relations machine has produced a new improved model of a young movie star.
- (often disapproving) a person who acts without thinking and without allowing their feelings to show or to affect their work
- In this movie he plays a lean, mean killing machine.
- She was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for her own personal safety.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally denoting a structure): from French, via Latin from Doric Greek makhana (Greek mēkhanē, from mēkhos ‘contrivance’).
Idioms
a cog in the machine/wheel
- (informal) a person who is a small part of a large organization