MACHINE

Meaning of MACHINE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a coffee machine (= for making coffee )

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Janice crossed to the coffee machine and filled two plastic cups.

a propaganda machine (= people who produce propaganda in an organized way )

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The regime’s propaganda machine presented the incident as a triumph.

a ticket machine

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The ticket machine wasn’t issuing tickets.

answering machine

cash machine

coffee machine

dialysis machine

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a dialysis machine

drinks machine

drum machine

franking machine

fruit machine

heart-lung machine

machine code

machine gun

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There came the sound of men shouting and a burst of machine gun fire.

machine shop

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The generators are put together in the machine shop .

machine tool

machine washable

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The gloves are machine washable .

machine/computer/radio etc operator

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computers which can be used by untrained operators

milking machine

political machine

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the Chicago mayor’s political machine

rowing machine

sewing machine

slot machine

threshing machine

time machine

vending machine

voting machine

washing machine

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

answering

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Then I came into the office to check the answering machine .

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His desktop held three telephones and an answering machine , a computer screen and keyboard, and a fax machine.

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Mark calls his patient Martha back in London and leaves a message on the answering machine .

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She left a message on his answering machine: Nick, I wanted to thank you for last night.

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They would still be driving home, so she could leave a message on the answering machine .

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He was either out and hadn't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone.

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Audioline is the fastest-growing brand in the answering machine market.

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Meanwhile at home on my answering machine a message from New Zealand: please ring back.

fax

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But it resulted in a ruling that could improve the quality of life for every Californian who owns a fax machine .

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Wyatt heard scribbling or scratching in the background, and the chattering of what he took to be a fax machine .

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Need a computer and fax machine ?

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Even a telephone and a fax machine with stationery and five hundred business cards cost money.

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The fax machine is held together by tape.

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Inexpensive modems went inside PowerBooks to make them communications centers digital telephones and fax machines .

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There is no television, video, fax machine , even an oven or a toaster.

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If you have the only fax machine in the world it is worth nothing.

political

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But there are also those who suggest that the mayor has created his own, discreet, Chicago political machine .

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By creating the ethnically balanced ticket, something new, he put together the most powerful political machine in Chicago history.

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But as long as we bear these limitations in mind we can, to some extent, assess the muscle of the political machine .

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Standardization was very important to the Progressives, because the political machines of the day often dispensed services unevenly.

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This is deadly for a political machine that lives through patronage.

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Now, in turning down a compromise, he was placing the fate of his political career in machines .

washing

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Hoover washing machines are being made on the site of the old steel works at Merthyr Tydfil.

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Two-thirds of the output from its factories is for civilian use - washing machines , prams and hunting rifles, for instance.

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Mercedes-Benz's proud engineers also loathe being lumped in with companies making everything from washing machines to weapons.

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For example, the washing machines in your local launderette are actually completely automatic vending machines.

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Our Lavamat automatic washing machines are also designed to look after something far more delicate.

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Low energy-using fridges and washing machines have recently appeared on the market and are cheaper to run than ordinary ones.

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Upon successful completion, the salesperson is then entrusted to sell the washing machines and dryers unaided.

■ NOUN

cash

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The weekly-paid Greater Glasgow Health Board employees first discovered the bank's mistake when they tried to withdraw money from cash machines .

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Then whenever you want to make your payment, just key in the amount at any Birmingham Midshires cash machine .

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Then, one of them went to a cash machine to try to get money from her account.

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Even the bank's cash machine may get a face, or many, depending on the customer.

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Only £700m was withdrawn from cash machines in 1979 - it is now about £50 billion a year.

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Half way through the next working day, Rainbow pauses at a cash machine .

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Exchanges done through cash machines which can not issue receipts are exempt from this provision.

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There were no cheque accounts, no building society cash machines and the 90-day account and Tessas were still some years off.

code

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It can be programmed by machine code , by taking it through the motions, or by keyboard.

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This computer has no machine code instruction set or data formats in the ordinary sense.

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Assembler is less computer orientated than machine code .

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An assembler instruction will correspond to a frequently performed operation and represents many machine code instructions.

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Like machine code , assembler is computer specific.

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A statement to call a machine code subroutine.

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In order for this to work, the machine code program must be loaded into the same address each time.

coffee

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In the office, a choice desk location by the window or near the coffee machine may be worth defending.

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Others are made the target of slurs and anti-gay jokes around the coffee machine .

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Polling stations would be awash with coffee machines and potted plants.

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To this day, employees in Minnesota remember when the governor took away their coffee machines .

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She left him in the kitchen examining the espresso coffee machine with wonder, while she went to Patrick's office.

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What he did learn was the coffee machine .

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Anything ever go wrong with a coffee machine , then send for Bill Erlich.

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There was a coffee machine and a pile of styrofoam cups and we helped ourselves.

drum

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The equipment used is much the same; the same drum machines as then.

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Unplug the drum machine and do us all a favour.

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T: It sounds like he only knows one programme on the drum machine .

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Fanshawe uses his as drum machine , confessor weight-training apparatus.

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We strap on the goggles and headphones which are wired up to what looks like a drum machine .

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Keyboards, drum machines and mikes filled most of the available space.

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They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes.

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I never replace a drummer with a drum machine straight away, unless it's absolutely necessary.

gun

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In the early morning of May 18, police manning barricades were replaced by army paratroopers who opened fire with machine guns .

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The hammering of the machine guns and rifles around him was continuous.

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The barrel of his machine gun clacked against the glass as they pulled off.

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A: He asked me to use my machine gun .

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I had hit the floor before the machine gun went off.

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It carried a. 50-caliber machine gun .

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One of the machine guns had live ammunition attached to it.

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He made a machine gun noise with his mouth.

knitting

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A word of advice - don't sit for hours at the knitting machine , particularly if you are a comparative beginner.

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True, the programme will not actually run the Duomatic machine , since this is a mechanical selection knitting machine rather than electronic.

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This way one feels much more invigorated when returning to the knitting machine .

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I won a Bond Elite knitting machine .

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This came quite naturally, I hadn't even thought about the gender of a knitting machine .

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Having hit a bad patch, financially, I decided I must try for some paid work with my knitting machine .

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Shelagh Hollingworth One of the popular reasons for buying a knitting machine is to be able to knit very quickly.

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Our automatic knitting machine , for example, has full orders for the next five years.

operator

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Originally from Ireland, he worked as a machine operator until he was 83.

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It was one thing to tell a machine operator he or she had no choice about being measured.

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At this stage the typical machine operator manipulated machine controls on the basis of data presented on instruments.

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They never discussed with machine operators or engineers how the equipment was maintained.

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A working-class housewife married to a machine operator declares: Housework is boring.

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The machine operator she replaced is unemployed and too old to be re-skilled.

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Example Alan employs Brian as a machine operator .

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The biggest jumps in participation rates were recorded by workers under age 44, minorities, machine operators and laborers.

propaganda

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Anyway, there was always the suspicion that they were exaggerated by Stalin's propaganda machine .

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The chancery was used as a propaganda machine perhaps as never before.

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Even Saddam's propaganda machine failed to bring that lie to life.

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We have to find a way to utilise our fifty thousand members as an educational and propaganda machine .

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The malai propaganda machine had always lied about the scale of casualties in our earlier Civil War.

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But in recent weeks it has cranked an impressive propaganda machine into action.

sewing

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I taught on all makes of machine and have also worked in stores and at exhibitions, selling knitting and sewing machines.

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Dressmaking and sewing machines are totally foreign to many would-be kite flyers.

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Buy the large cans, suitable for sewing machines .

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With a sewing machine and polyester thread to match the garment, set two rows of straight stitches by the tacking stitches.

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If I do another cardigan in this way I shall do two or even three lines on the sewing machine .

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A single strand of technological evolution connects electronic sewing machines , electronic typewriters, and flexible electronic workstations.

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We never close the branch-line of the heart, its sad little, slow little sewing machine .

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The workers studied by Westwood made up clothes from pre-cut pieces of cloth, using sewing machines and presses to finish them.

shop

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Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop .

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The machine shop left hundreds of thousands of men with shared memories: The whirring and flapping of the belts.

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But the quickest way to the foundry is through the machine shop , especially in this weather.

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At the time, George Jennings was running a machine shop .

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But give labor anything it wants, even a lousy ten-man machine shop , and every drop of it is blood.

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No machine shop , then or now, can be a machine shop without it.

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Iron and steel were hard and unyielding, yet here in the machine shop , you cut them like butter.

slot

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It has 228 rooms, 6 pools, 4 restaurants and 500 slot machines .

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Casinos sport the same slot machines , the same gaming tables, the same garish and stunningly ugly carpet.

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The higher tiers housed lesser wheels, chemin de fer, blackjack, slot machines , vingt-et-un, baccarat, five-card stud.

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She loved the sound of dice and slot machines , the clatter of mathematics.

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Conversely, any fool can sit down at a slot machine .

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Presumably, that means slot machines of any kind.

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Interactivity: The woman operating a huge eight-reel slot machine offers $ 20 for our $ 150 camera.

war

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If you like mighty, if quirky, war machines , then you can choose steam tanks and war wagons.

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They become instant targets for enemy war machines !

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They are difficult to destroy, although a hit from another war machine or large monster may be sufficient to cause damage.

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War Machines 0-25% Up to a quarter of the points value of the army may be spent on war machines .

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For example, you can spend up to 25% of your army's points value on war machines .

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Could I really be part of a war machine ?

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In December Pearl Harbor brought a new urgency to the task of converting the economy into a vast war machine .

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As with all small units you have to be wary of war machines and magic.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a cog in the machine/wheel

a well-oiled machine

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It was running like a well-oiled machine, instead of like a slightly out-of-control summer camp.

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This could never happen in the Bush operation, which has been turning out policy positions like a well-oiled machine.

fault-tolerant computer/machine

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It believes that the new LightsOut software is the first unattended event monitoring program from a supplier of Unix-based fault-tolerant computers.

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The chips are targeted at embedded controls, portable and desktop computers, high-end fault-tolerant machines and supercomputers.

have (got) the TV/radio/washing machine etc on

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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a machine that fills beer bottles

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He's like an eating machine .

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I think there's something wrong with my machine -would you take a look at it?

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Ice could be made in huge quantities by machine .

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It's possible to operate the machines by remote control.

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Just hit that button to stop the machine .

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One cable was damaged, which was causing the machine to shut down frequently.

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Our soft-serve ice cream machine isn't working.

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the government's propaganda machine

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the party machine

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There is a washing machine in the basement of the building.

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Whenever she calls and the machine is on, she hangs up.

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You need a machine with 64 kilobytes of memory to run the program.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual.

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Nintendo is promising there will be five to 10 games available for the new machine initially.

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She took him to a pachinko parlor, a long narrow room full of people pressed against upright machines.

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The motors of the wave machine run day and night.

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The product range includes equipment for medical uses: eg a vehicle for children with spina bifida and portable kidney machines.

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True, the programme will not actually run the Duomatic machine , since this is a mechanical selection knitting machine rather than electronic.

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When it snows in Boston, residents litter the streets with old furniture, barrels and a rusty washing machine or two.

II. verb