machine

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Engleski

===Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latinski māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhanā́), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical.

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Noun

machine (plural machines)

  1. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
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  2. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
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    • 1928, Franklin W. Dixon, The Missing Chums, Grosset & Dunlap, strana 1:
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  3. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
    I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
  4. (computing) A computer.
    Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
    He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.
  5. (figurative) 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.
    • Šablon:rfdatek
      The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.
  7. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
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  8. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
    • 1902, The Friend
      A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket (as be and his clique of party bosses prepare it) should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party.
    • 2006, Jerry F. Hough, Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-blue State Alignment, Algora Publishing →ISBN, page 37
      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.
    • 2013, Paul M. Green, Melvin G. Holli, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, fourth edition, SIU Press →ISBN, page 126
      He was thrust into a political maelstrom for which he was ill-prepared, and yet he was, most notably, the Chicago machine's political savior.
  9. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
  10. (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.

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  • Tok Pisin: masin
  • → Hindustani: मशीन (maśīn) / مشین‎ (maśīn)
  • → Irski: meaisín
  • → Japanski: マシン (mashin)
  • → Maori: mīhini
  • → Swahili: mashine

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Verb

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  1. to make by machinery.
  2. to shape or finish by machinery.

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Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowed from Francuski machine, from Middle French machine, from Latinski māchina, from Doric Greek μᾱχανᾱ́ (mākhanā́).

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Noun

machine f (plural machines, diminutive machientje n or machinetje n)

  1. machine (mechanical or electrical device)

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Francuski

Etymology

From Middle French machine, borrowed from Latinski machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), itself a borrowing from Doric Antički Grčki μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhanā́).

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Noun

machine f (plural machines)

  1. machine, device Šablon:rfclarify
  2. (slang) machine Galicijski
    Ce type, c’est une vraie machine !
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Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski machina.

Noun

machine f (plural machines)

  1. machine; device

Descendants

  • Francuski: machine (see there for further descendants)
  • → Engleski: machine (see there for further descendants)

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