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Machinery

Machinery Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Machinery? [n] machines or machine systems collectively [n] a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Machinery: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Machinery: accouterments \| action \| adding machine \| addressing machine \| agency \| agent \| all-crop harvester \| apparatus \| appliance \| appliances \| appointments \| appurtenances \| armament \| automobile \| backhoe \| baler \| bean harvester \| beet harvester \| binder \| breaker \| bulldozer \| calfdozer \| carryall \| cast plow \| channel \| clockworks \| combine \| compressor \| contraption \| contrivance \| convenience \| conveniences \| cotton picker \| crab \| crane \| crimping machine \| cultivator \| cutting machine \| cutting press \| derrick \| device \| dishwasher \| disk \| disk harrow \| disk plow \| drag \| dredge \| dredger \| dredging machine \| drill \| drill plow \| drive \| drive train \| drop hammer \| duffel \| dumping machine \| edger \| elevator dredge \| engine \| enginery \| equipage \| equipment \| expedient \| facilities \| facility \| fittings \| fixture \| fixtures \| folding machine \| four-bottom plow \| furnishings \| furniture \| gadget \| gang plow \| gear \| gin \| going between \| grader \| grain harvester \| grub hook \| habiliments \| harrow \| harvester \| haymaker \| header \| hoe drill \| hoist \| hydraulic press \| impedimenta \| implement \| innards \| installations \| instrument \| instrumentality \| intermediation \| kit \| lawn mower \| lister \| lister cultivator \| machine \| machine drill \| mailing machine \| materiel \| means \| mechanical aid \| mechanical device \| mechanism \| mediation \| medium \| middlebreaker \| moldboard plow \| motion \| motive power \| motor \| motorcycle \| movement \| movements \| mower \| munition \| munitions \| navvy \| organ \| outfit \| packager \| paraphernalia \| peg-tooth harrow \| pile driver \| planing machine \| plant \| planter \| plow \| plow drill \| plumbing \| power mower \| power plant \| power shovel \| power source \| power train \| prairie breaker \| press \| press drill \| printing machine \| pulp machine \| punching machine \| pusher \| rake \| recourse \| resort \| rig \| rigging \| roller \| rose engine \| rotary plow \| ruling machine \| saw machine \| scooter \| scraper \| screwing machine \| seed plow \| seeder \| service \| servomechanism \| sewer \| sewing machine \| shovel plow \| snap machine \| snowblower \| snowplow \| snow-thrower \| solar machine \| sprayer \| spring-tooth harrow \| stag gang \| steam hammer \| steam shovel \| steamroller \| stock-in-trade \| subsoil plow \| sulky lister \| sulky plow \| swather \| swivel plow \| tackle \| tackling \| tedder \| things \| thrasher \| three-bottom plow \| thresher \| threshing machine \| tool \| tractor \| trench plow \| triphammer \| turnplow \| two-bottom plow \| typewriter \| typing machine \| utensil \| utensils \| utility \| vehicle \| vineyard plow \| walking plow \| washing machine \| watchworks \| water wheel \| wheels \| wheels within wheels \| windlass \| windrower \| workings \| works See Also \| enginery \| machine \| system Machinery In Webster's Dictionary \Machin"ery\, n. [From {Machine}: cf. F. machinerie.] 1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. --Pope. 4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose. An indispensable part of the machinery of state. --Macaulay. The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Machinery Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Machinery?

[n] machines or machine systems collectively
[n] a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Machinery:

See Also | enginery | machine | system

Machinery In Webster's Dictionary

\Ma*chin"er*y\, n. [From {Machine}: cf. F.
machinerie.]
1. Machines, in general, or collectively.

2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as,
   the machinery of a watch.

3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or
   fictitious work is carried on and brought to a
   catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by
   which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative,
   in prose or verse, are effected.

         The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the
         critics, to signify that part which the deities,
         angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem.
                                               --Pope.

4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in
   action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system
   of parts adapted to a purpose.

         An indispensable part of the machinery of state.
                                               --Macaulay.

         The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan
         languages.                            --I. Taylor
                                               (The
                                               Alphabet).

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