Machinery
noun
Types of machines or their parts collectively.
The factory is full of heavy machinery.
Often appears as...
- heavy machinery
- industrial machinery
noun
A system or process for achieving something.
He is familiar with the machinery of government.
Often appears as...
- government machinery
- administrative machinery
noun
The components of a literary work, such as the plot, characters or devices.
The author uses a complex machinery of symbols throughout the novel.
Often appears as...
- plot machinery
- narrative machinery
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Literary
noun
Types of machines or their parts collectively.
The factory is full of heavy machinery.
Often appears as...
- heavy machinery
- industrial machinery
noun
A system or process for achieving something.
He is familiar with the machinery of government.
Often appears as...
- government machinery
- administrative machinery
noun
The components of a literary work, such as the plot, characters or devices.
The author uses a complex machinery of symbols throughout the novel.
Often appears as...
- plot machinery
- narrative machinery
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Objects
Refers to actual machines you can see and touch, often large and heavy.
The factory invested in new machinery to increase production.
Pro Tip 2/3Collective Term
Used to talk about multiple machines together, not just one.
The construction site was packed with machinery.
Pro Tip 3/3Operating Caution
Implies potential danger or the need for skill to operate.
Only trained workers should handle this heavy machinery.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Objects
Refers to actual machines you can see and touch, often large and heavy.
The factory invested in new machinery to increase production.
Pro Tip 2/3Collective Term
Used to talk about multiple machines together, not just one.
The construction site was packed with machinery.
Pro Tip 3/3Operating Caution
Implies potential danger or the need for skill to operate.
Only trained workers should handle this heavy machinery.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Objects
Refers to actual machines you can see and touch, often large and heavy.
The factory invested in new machinery to increase production.
Pro Tip 2/3Collective Term
Used to talk about multiple machines together, not just one.
The construction site was packed with machinery.
Pro Tip 3/3Operating Caution
Implies potential danger or the need for skill to operate.
Only trained workers should handle this heavy machinery.
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Can we create new senses...
but they're really bad at what our world has become, which is screens with lots and lots of data. We have to crawl that with our attentional systems. So this is a way of just feeling the state of something, just like the way you know the state of your body as you're standing around. So I think heavy machinery, safety, feeling the state of a factory, of your equipment, that's one place it'll go right away.
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Spotting the World's...
right now. But this water didn't used to be here. This has come in through natural springs and basically run off, but it's 18 meters deep now and all the stuff down below is still there. So there's buildings that houses, there's machinery all still left abandoned underneath.
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Why do you get a fever...
their host’s replicative machinery to reproduce. It also protects surrounding cells from damage since some viruses spread by rupturing their host cells, which can lead to large-scale destruction, the build-up of detritus, and potentially even organ damage.
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How the COVID-19...
the mRNA vaccine. This new treatment uses our body’s existing cellular machinery to trigger an immune response, protecting us from viruses without ever experiencing an infection. And in the future, this approach might be able to treat new diseases
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Epic Grand Canyon Hike:...
impoverished area and help them save their culture what's better than that any idea just trust in this area with your jackhammers with your machinery or whatever dynamite or explosive you want to bring in here you're basically
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Why do we have museums?...
and freak show that was known for its eclectic residents, such as bears, elephants, acrobats, giants, Siamese twins, a Fiji mermaid, and a bearded lady, along with a host of modern machinery and scientific instruments.
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What is epigenetics? -...
by derailing the cellular transcription machinery or causing the DNA to coil more tightly, making it inaccessible. The gene is still there, but it's silent. Boosting transcription is essentially the opposite.
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Which is better: Soap or...
this is called the hydrophobic effect. This outer structure helps the molecular machinery of the virus break through cellular membranes and hijack our cells. But it has thousands upon thousands of weak points
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One more reason to get a...
the elegant machinery of the brain is quietly hard at work cleaning and maintaining this unimaginably complex machine. Like our housework, it's a dirty and a thankless job, but it's also important.
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How to rebuild the world...
driving machinery for you but there's something else just as important how can you ensure that your society develops and progresses over generations how do you generate new knowledge of yourself
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Can we create new senses...
but they're really bad at what our world has become, which is screens with lots and lots of data. We have to crawl that with our attentional systems. So this is a way of just feeling the state of something, just like the way you know the state of your body as you're standing around. So I think heavy machinery, safety, feeling the state of a factory, of your equipment, that's one place it'll go right away.
Video examples
Spotting the World's...
right now. But this water didn't used to be here. This has come in through natural springs and basically run off, but it's 18 meters deep now and all the stuff down below is still there. So there's buildings that houses, there's machinery all still left abandoned underneath.
Video examples
Why do you get a fever...
their host’s replicative machinery to reproduce. It also protects surrounding cells from damage since some viruses spread by rupturing their host cells, which can lead to large-scale destruction, the build-up of detritus, and potentially even organ damage.
Video examples
How the COVID-19...
the mRNA vaccine. This new treatment uses our body’s existing cellular machinery to trigger an immune response, protecting us from viruses without ever experiencing an infection. And in the future, this approach might be able to treat new diseases
Video examples
Epic Grand Canyon Hike:...
impoverished area and help them save their culture what's better than that any idea just trust in this area with your jackhammers with your machinery or whatever dynamite or explosive you want to bring in here you're basically
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Why do we have museums?...
and freak show that was known for its eclectic residents, such as bears, elephants, acrobats, giants, Siamese twins, a Fiji mermaid, and a bearded lady, along with a host of modern machinery and scientific instruments.
Video examples
What is epigenetics? -...
by derailing the cellular transcription machinery or causing the DNA to coil more tightly, making it inaccessible. The gene is still there, but it's silent. Boosting transcription is essentially the opposite.
Video examples
Which is better: Soap or...
this is called the hydrophobic effect. This outer structure helps the molecular machinery of the virus break through cellular membranes and hijack our cells. But it has thousands upon thousands of weak points
Video examples
One more reason to get a...
the elegant machinery of the brain is quietly hard at work cleaning and maintaining this unimaginably complex machine. Like our housework, it's a dirty and a thankless job, but it's also important.
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
driving machinery for you but there's something else just as important how can you ensure that your society develops and progresses over generations how do you generate new knowledge of yourself
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Marie Curie
Polish Scientist
We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.
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Mauro Ranallo
Canadian Entertainer
All I can say is that WWE and its entire machinery has been nothing but a joy to work with. I'm not just saying that because I'm paid to or that I'm a member of the company. I have criticized WWE in the past, but I am still a big fan of the product.
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American Scientist
A functional biological clock has three components: input from the outside world to set the clock, the timekeeping mechanism itself, and genetic machinery that allows the clock to regulate expression of a variety of genes.
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Frank B. Kellogg
American Politician
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
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Jenna Wortham
American Journalist
Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
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Sebastian Lelio
Chilean Director
Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.
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Keith Richards
English Musician
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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Karel Capek
Czechoslovakian Writer
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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Marie Curie
Polish Scientist
We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.
Quote examples
Mauro Ranallo
Canadian Entertainer
All I can say is that WWE and its entire machinery has been nothing but a joy to work with. I'm not just saying that because I'm paid to or that I'm a member of the company. I have criticized WWE in the past, but I am still a big fan of the product.
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American Scientist
A functional biological clock has three components: input from the outside world to set the clock, the timekeeping mechanism itself, and genetic machinery that allows the clock to regulate expression of a variety of genes.
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Frank B. Kellogg
American Politician
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
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Jenna Wortham
American Journalist
Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
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Sebastian Lelio
Chilean Director
Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.
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Keith Richards
English Musician
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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Karel Capek
Czechoslovakian Writer
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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