Machine
noun
A device with moving parts that uses power to do a job.
The washing machine broke down and we had to call a repairman.
Often appears as...
- washing machine
- machine wash
noun
A vehicle such as a car or motorcycle.
He revved up his machine and roared off into the distance.
Often appears as...
- rev up your machine
- put the machine in gear
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A computer.
My machine is running slow, I think it might have a virus.
Often appears as...
- my machine
- slow machine
noun
A system or organization that is large and controls many things.
The bureaucracy of the government is often described as a machine.
Often appears as...
- political machine
- bureaucratic machine
noun
A device with moving parts that uses power to do a job.
The washing machine broke down and we had to call a repairman.
Often appears as...
- washing machine
- machine wash
noun
A vehicle such as a car or motorcycle.
He revved up his machine and roared off into the distance.
Often appears as...
- rev up your machine
- put the machine in gear
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A computer.
My machine is running slow, I think it might have a virus.
Often appears as...
- my machine
- slow machine
noun
A system or organization that is large and controls many things.
The bureaucracy of the government is often described as a machine.
Often appears as...
- political machine
- bureaucratic machine
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Power Source
Most machines require energy, like electricity, to operate effectively.
Make sure the machine is plugged in to work.
Pro Tip 2/3Moving Parts
Machines typically have components that move, like gears or motors.
The gears inside the clock machine keep time.
Pro Tip 3/3Purposeful Design
Each machine is designed to perform specific tasks efficiently.
This machine is for cutting metal precisely.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Source
Most machines require energy, like electricity, to operate effectively.
Make sure the machine is plugged in to work.
Pro Tip 2/3Moving Parts
Machines typically have components that move, like gears or motors.
The gears inside the clock machine keep time.
Pro Tip 3/3Purposeful Design
Each machine is designed to perform specific tasks efficiently.
This machine is for cutting metal precisely.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Source
Most machines require energy, like electricity, to operate effectively.
Make sure the machine is plugged in to work.
Pro Tip 2/3Moving Parts
Machines typically have components that move, like gears or motors.
The gears inside the clock machine keep time.
Pro Tip 3/3Purposeful Design
Each machine is designed to perform specific tasks efficiently.
This machine is for cutting metal precisely.
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How playing an...
When people are hooked up to these machines, tasks, such as reading or doing math problems, each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed. But when researchers got the participants to listen to music, they saw fireworks. Multiple areas of their brains were lighting up at once, as they processed the sound,
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An ode to the millennial...
none of your business because the world is no longer yours we took away the Y's and create our own parser now with ours I said the world is no longer yours we became the Generation Y before you could arks it so now it's ours so whether it's cupcake machines kennel computers or driverless cars we don't believe in war
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Questions No One Knows...
Is there really a plan for my life? Is the future yet to be written, or is it already written and we just can't see it? But then, do I have free will? I mean, who am I anyway? Am I just a biological machine? But then, why am I conscious? What is consciousness?
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Would you sacrifice one...
So researchers who study autonomous systems are collaborating with philosophers to address the complex problem of programming ethics into machines, which goes to show that even hypothetical dilemmas can wind up on a collision course with the real world.
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Rethinking infidelity...
desire to feel important. And the very structure of an affair, the fact that you can never have your lover, keeps you wanting. That in itself is a desire machine, because the incompleteness, the ambiguity, keeps you wanting that which you can't have.
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Where does gold come...
Actually, yes. Using particle accelerators, we can mimic the complex nuclear reactions that create gold in stars. But these machines can only construct gold atom by atom. So it would take almost the age of the universe to produce one gram
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The benefits of a good...
you guessed it, a good night's sleep. Sleep is composed of four stages, the deepest of which are known as slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement. EEG machines monitoring people during these stages have shown electrical impulses
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Why don't perpetual...
leaving one side of the wheel perpetually heavier than the other. The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine,
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Time Travel PIPE National...
to the world while cosmic strings and wormholes would require an advanced super civilization with the power of the galaxies at their fingertips mallet claims his time machine could be built
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Praying Mantis...
deep inside is the queen her role is to replenish the colony by laying two million eggs a month she is merely an egg-laying machine
Video examples
How playing an...
When people are hooked up to these machines, tasks, such as reading or doing math problems, each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed. But when researchers got the participants to listen to music, they saw fireworks. Multiple areas of their brains were lighting up at once, as they processed the sound,
Video examples
An ode to the millennial...
none of your business because the world is no longer yours we took away the Y's and create our own parser now with ours I said the world is no longer yours we became the Generation Y before you could arks it so now it's ours so whether it's cupcake machines kennel computers or driverless cars we don't believe in war
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
Is there really a plan for my life? Is the future yet to be written, or is it already written and we just can't see it? But then, do I have free will? I mean, who am I anyway? Am I just a biological machine? But then, why am I conscious? What is consciousness?
Video examples
Would you sacrifice one...
So researchers who study autonomous systems are collaborating with philosophers to address the complex problem of programming ethics into machines, which goes to show that even hypothetical dilemmas can wind up on a collision course with the real world.
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
desire to feel important. And the very structure of an affair, the fact that you can never have your lover, keeps you wanting. That in itself is a desire machine, because the incompleteness, the ambiguity, keeps you wanting that which you can't have.
Video examples
Where does gold come...
Actually, yes. Using particle accelerators, we can mimic the complex nuclear reactions that create gold in stars. But these machines can only construct gold atom by atom. So it would take almost the age of the universe to produce one gram
Video examples
The benefits of a good...
you guessed it, a good night's sleep. Sleep is composed of four stages, the deepest of which are known as slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement. EEG machines monitoring people during these stages have shown electrical impulses
Video examples
Why don't perpetual...
leaving one side of the wheel perpetually heavier than the other. The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine,
Video examples
Time Travel PIPE National...
to the world while cosmic strings and wormholes would require an advanced super civilization with the power of the galaxies at their fingertips mallet claims his time machine could be built
Video examples
Praying Mantis...
deep inside is the queen her role is to replenish the colony by laying two million eggs a month she is merely an egg-laying machine
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Jane Seymour
English Actress
Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.
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Satoru Iwata
Japanese Businessman
Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start.
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Robert Smith
English Musician
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
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Karin Slaughter
American Writer
No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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J. J. Abrams
American Director
I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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Emmanuelle Seigner
French Actress
Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.
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James P. Gorman
American Businessman
Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.
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Yusuf Hamied
Indian Scientist
I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.
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James Jeans
English Physicist
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
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Jane Seymour
English Actress
Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
Quote examples
Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.
Quote examples
Satoru Iwata
Japanese Businessman
Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start.
Quote examples
Robert Smith
English Musician
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
Quote examples
Karin Slaughter
American Writer
No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
Quote examples
J. J. Abrams
American Director
I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
Quote examples
Emmanuelle Seigner
French Actress
Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.
Quote examples
James P. Gorman
American Businessman
Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.
Quote examples
Yusuf Hamied
Indian Scientist
I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.
Quote examples
James Jeans
English Physicist
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
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