machine
Definition of machine:
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part of speech: noun
Any artificial means or contrivance: an instrument formed by combining two or more of the mechanical powers: an engine: ( fig.) supernatural agency in a poem: one who can do only what he is told.
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part of speech: noun
Any contrivance or thing which serves to increase or regulate the effects of a given force, as steam, water, or wind; a complex structure or instrument contrived to lessen or supersede human labour; an engine; a coach or light conveyance.
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Common misspellings:
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- macing (0.2%)
- macine (6.1%)
- mchine (0.8%)
- machien (16.0%)
- manchion (0.2%)
- macheine (0.4%)
- matchin (0.4%)
- macheince (0.4%)
- mahine (1.2%)
- machinac (0.2%)
- michine (1.2%)
- maching (16.0%)
- machin (7.8%)
- machiner (0.2%)
- machiene (9.4%)
- machne (0.4%)
- manchine (2.0%)
- mihing (0.4%)
- mashine (8.8%)
- mechain (0.4%)
- saughter (0.2%)
- mahcine (0.8%)
- mishens (0.2%)
- machince (5.5%)
- vection (0.2%)
- amchine (0.4%)
- mache (0.2%)
- mechine (9.2%)
- manchin (0.4%)
- machaine (0.8%)
- mchsine (0.4%)
- machings (0.4%)
- machen (0.4%)
- macnine (0.4%)
- machein (0.8%)
- machie (0.8%)
- machiean (0.4%)
- mechien (0.4%)
- sig (0.2%)
- maschine (2.3%)
- machinegun (0.6%)
- magine (0.2%)
- machiance (0.4%)
- machineries (0.4%)
- mancine (0.4%)
- mauchine (0.4%)
- meachin (0.4%)
- mqchine (0.4%)
- sachine (0.4%)
Usage examples for machine:
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Herbert still sat with his head in his hands as The Thinking Machine went out.
"The Chase of the Golden Plate" – Jacques Futrelle -
We haven't found him, or his machine
"The Electronic Mind Reader" – John Blaine -
We're part of a machine
"The Project Gutenberg Plays of John Galsworthy, Complete" – John Galsworthy -
I think that the machine she spoke about is holding her.
"The Defiant Agents" – Andre Alice Norton