(n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
(n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
(n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
(n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
(n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
(n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
(4) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(5) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(6) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
(7) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(8) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(9) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(10) Placing the collection bag at the base of the machine provided excellent plasma removal rates with only minimal blood flows.
(11) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
(12) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
(13) This algorithm is not only efficient for the recognition of order and disorder in "machine vision", but also plausible in biological visual perception.
(14) Flat surfaces could be machined on the originally cylindrical surface to reduce the severity of these aberrations.
(15) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(16) We compared the time taken to obtain clear airway, when patients were receiving 4.5 or 6 l.min-1 fresh flow by anesthetic machines.
(17) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(18) Bleeps, pagers and fax machines are still used for communicating vital information.
(19) A new technique is described, in which a copy machine (Rank-Xerox) is used for instantaneous reproduction of biological assays.
(20) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
Sawmill
Definition:
(n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes the validity and reliability of a method to retrospectively assess exposure to antisapstain agents used in sawmills (chlorophenates).
(2) Wood-trimmers' disease, generally called extrinsic allergic alveolitis, which affects workers in sawmills, is thought to be caused by fungal diaspores.
(3) It is concluded that the dust exposure in sawmills is associated mainly with restrictive type of pulmonary impairment in the exposed workers.
(4) The mortality of a cohort of 1290 sawmill workers was also studied in order to have a socially, geographically, and occupationally similar group without the exposures typical of the pulp and paper industry for comparison.
(5) Workers in five coastal sawmills were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire about symptoms considered potentially related and unrelated to fungicide exposure, and about injuries commonly reported in sawmills.
(6) Four workers from a cedar sawmill who developed red cedar asthma are described.
(7) Exposure to a new wood preservative agent (Sinesto B), whose active ingredient is 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA), was determined by urinalysis of the parent chemical and its metabolites in workers employed in four Finnish sawmills.
(8) In a cross-sectional survey of 652 workers in a western red-cedar sawmill, we obtained data on symptoms, pulmonary function, immediate skin reactivity to common allergens, nonspecific bronchial responsiveness, total IgE level, and sensitization to plicatic acid conjugated with human serum albumin as measured by RAST.
(9) This was due to the excess of deaths from ischaemic heart disease found among the men at the sulphite, sulphate, and paper mills, maintenance department, and power plant, but not at the sawmill.
(10) Epidemiologic surveys were carried out on 1,138 white men employed in sawmills and grain elevator terminals in British Columbia.
(11) Patterson’s vision is something grander: Tchula as a manufacturing hub attracting factories providing stable if not particularly well-paid work, likethe clothing firm and sawmill used to do.
(12) Exposure to chlorophenols occurs in the vicinity of the lumber treatment area in sawmills and in subsequent work phases where treated lumber is handled.
(13) Oxygen intake for a given work load was similar in both groups, but cardiac frequency was elevated in the sawmill group.
(14) Local geology, ground water streams, and chemical analyses incriminated a local sawmill as the only plausible source of exposure.
(15) A group of 71 chlorophenate-exposed sawmill workers were identified as part of a group undergoing an extensive health and environmental evaluation in a pulp mill.
(16) A gas chromatographic (GC) method was developed for the determination of 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA), initially in the urine of animals, but subsequently in samples of urine from sawmill workers in order to evaluate their exposure to 2-EHA which is used as a wood preservative.
(17) Antibody levels to R. microsporus and P. variotii were higher in wood trimmers than in other sawmill workers whose jobs had an assumed lower exposure to mould spores.
(18) Within a few days it would be full to its 300-tonne capacity and would ply its way back upriver into Peru, just like a dozen other barges loading up at sawmills on this bend in the river.
(19) The concentration of urinary chlorophenol was assayed for 230 sawmill workers.
(20) The police know this and the wood passes through,” admits Felipe Portocarrero, a powerfully built timber merchant sitting shirtless on a deckchair at a sawmill on the Yavari river, which marks the border between Peru and Brazil.