machinery
Definition of machinery:
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part of speech: noun
Machines in general: the parts of a machine: means for keeping in action: supernatural agency in a poem.
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part of speech: noun
The works or component parts of a machine; machines in general; complicated routine or management; the superhuman beings introduced into a poem, & c., to solve a difficulty.
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Common misspellings:
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- achinery (0.9%)
- machienery (4.2%)
- machinrey (1.9%)
- machery (0.9%)
- machinry (1.4%)
- macinery (0.9%)
- machiner (3.3%)
- machenery (7.0%)
- machiery (0.9%)
- machinary (59.2%)
- machineary (2.8%)
- machineriy (0.9%)
- macjinery (0.9%)
- mechinary (0.9%)
- machineries (13.1%)
- machiners (0.5%)
Usage examples for machinery:
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Wych Hazel for her part shewed abundant power of interest and of understanding, in their progress through the mill; quick to catch explanations, quick to see the beauty of some fine bit of machinery but very quiet.
"Wych Hazel" – Susan and Anna Warner -
The machinery continued to break and the vessel to drag.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens" – Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009 -
New machinery new duties.
"Woman and Labour" – Olive Schreiner -
The roar of the machinery is never silent by day or night.
"The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon" – Newell Dwight Hillis
