machine
suomi-englanti sanakirjamachine englannista suomeksi
auto, automobiili
koneisto
valmistaa koneella
työstää
kone
Substantiivi
Verbi
machine englanniksi
A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
(quote-journal)| url=http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21578526-medical-technology-artificial-kidneys-are-getting-closer-becoming-clinical| passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
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(quote-book)|year=1928|page=1|passage="Joe, how soon will you be ready to roll?" Frank Hardy burst into the garage where his brother was working on a sleek, black-and-silver motorcycle. "Right now, if this machine kicks over," Joe replied, putting down a wrench.
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A computer.
A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
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.
(RQ:Landor Imaginary Conversations)
Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(RQ:Spectator)
- I am apt to think, that the changing of the Trojan fleet into water-nymphs, which is the most violent machine in the whole Æneid(..)
The system of interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
1902, ''The Friend''
- A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket (as be and his clique of party bosses prepare it) should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party.
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(RQ:Cleland Fanny Hill)
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 ex machina.
A machine.
*1823, (w), ''Journals and Letters'', Penguin 2001, p. 512:
- One Machine only was provided for Bathers, the Limitted smoothness of the sands not extending widely enough to admit another.
To make by machinery.
To shape or finish by machinery; to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.
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(l) (gloss)
machine (gl)
(l); device