machinenoun/məˈʃiːn/

• 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

  datedA vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

  • 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.
  • As the aviator turned his machine to reconnoitre in the new direction, he was surprised to see the hostile aeroplane between him and his objective.
• 3

  communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringAn answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

  • I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
• 4

  computingengineeringmathematicsA computer.

  • Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
  • He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.
• 5

  A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

  • Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
  • The government has become a money-making machine.
• 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

  communicationsjournalismliteratureSupernatural 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

  governmentpoliticsThe system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.

  • 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.
  • In essence, therefore, the right-fork strategy of the Democrats meant an alliance of the South with the political machines built on the non-Protestant immigrants in key Northeastern states.

machineverb/məˈʃiːn/

• 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.