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Machinery
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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
\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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