machine

名词 n. 动词 v.
/məˈʃiːn/    /məˈʃin/|/məˈʃiːn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
    — 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.
  2. A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane. dated
    — As he stood directly beneath a brilliant arc light, waiting for a limousine that was approaching to pass him, he heard his name called in a sweet feminine voice. Looking up, he met the smiling eyes of Olga de Coude as she leaned forward upon the back seat of the machine. He bowed very low in response to her friendly greeting. When he straightened up the machine had borne her away.
  3. An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail. abbreviation
    — I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
  4. A computer.
    — Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
  5. A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional. figuratively
    — Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
  6. 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.
    — The whole machine of government, civil and religious, ought never to bear upon the people with a weight so oppressive
  7. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
    — 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[…]
  8. The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas. US
    — A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket (as he and his clique of party bosses prepare it) should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party.
  9. Penis. euphemistic,obsolete
    — He now reſumes his attempts in more form: firſt he put one of the pillows under me, to give the blank of his aim a more favourable elevation, and another under my head, in eaſe of it: then ſpreading my thighs, and placing himſelf ſtanding between them, made them reſt upon his hips: applying then the point of his machine to the ſlit, into which he ſought entrance;
    Fanny Hill
  10. 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 deus ex machina. historical
  11. A bathing machine. obsolete
    — One Machine only was provided for Bathers, the Limitted smoothness of the sands not extending widely enough to admit another.
动词 v.
  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.
    — Engineering materials have been recently developed whose hardness and strength are considerably increased, such that the cutting speed and the MRR tend to fall when machining such materials using traditional methods like turning, milling, grinding, and so on.

词形变化

machines plural machines present,singular,third-person machining participle,present machined participle,past machined past

词汇关系

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accounting machine adding machine antimachine arcwall machine ATM machine Atwood machine Atwood's machine automated machine learning automated teller machine automatic data processing machine automatic teller machine baby machine ball machine bank machine biomachine bookkeeping machine bread machine business machine carding machine cash machine claw machine coffee machine compound machine copy machine cornucopia machine dance machine data processing machine deflavorizing machine deus ex machina dictation machine Ditto machine drum machine drying machine DVD-R machine dynamo-electric machine Enigma machine epsilon-machine exercise machine fax machine femtomachine finite-state machine fire machine flying machine fog machine forest machine forestry machine fruit machine fucking machine fuckmachine gaming machine ghost in the machine goal machine ground effect machine ground-effect machine gumball machine Harvard machine heart-lung machine Hollerith machine hug machine ice machine infernal machine influence machine infomachine intermachine Jacquard machine karaoke machine kidney machine lace machine lag machine laugh machine light machine gun light machine guns little brown fucking machine love machine machinability machinable machinate machination machineability machineable machine age machine bolt machine code machine cycle machine elf machine epsilon machineful machine gun machinegun machine-gunner machine gunner machine head machine-hour machine instruction machine lace machine language machine learning machineless machinelike machinely machine-made machineman machine of government machine operator machine-paced machine pistol machine politician machine politics machine-readable machine room machinery machine screw machine shop Machine Spirit machine tool machine-translate machine translation machine-wash machine wash machine-washable machine washable machine word machine zone machinic machinify machinima machinism machinize man-machine Mealy machine mean machine mechanic mechanical mechanism mechanistic megamachine metamachine micromachine milking machine milling machine mismachine money machine Moore machine mud machine multimachine nanomachine nonmachine office machine oracle machine orphan-crushing machine perpetual motion machine perpetual motion machine of the first kind perpetual motion machine of the second kind photo machine poker machine pokie machine political machine poop machine praying machine premachine rasping machine remachine reverse vending machine reversing machine road machine rod machine roller machine rope machine rotor machine rubbing machine Rube Goldberg machine sanding machine screw machine scrum machine scrummaging machine seaming machine sex-machine sex machine slabbing machine sleep machine slotting machine Smith machine snow machine snowmachine soda machine spin machine splining machine squeeze machine stack machine state machine step machine submachine supermachine support vector machine tabulating machine tape machine tattoo machine telephone answering machine thinking machine threshing machine ticket stamping machine ticket-stamping machine ticket vending machine time machine Tipler machine Tipler time machine trowel machine turbomachine Turing machine universal Turing machine unlimited register machine virtual machine monitor von Neumann machine voting machine war machine wash-machine wash machine wayback machine weighing machine well-oiled machine wetting machine wheeling machine Wimshurst machine wind machine winnowing machine xerox machine Zeno machine zipper machine machinist machinofacture

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Doric 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.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Doric 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.
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