(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?
Scribbler
Definition:
(n.) One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
(n.) A scribbling machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ideas matter – cue the cliche from JM Keynes about business people responding to the notions of some long-dead scribbler.
(2) For six decades, he had been what he called "a scribbler".
(3) At Girls Inc we focus on fueling girls’ self-worth through helping them overcome obstacles and set and achieve goals.” Read more Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(4) The only comparable performance of the era is Burt Lancaster ’s as JJ Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), another satanic scribbler with poison in his veins and his pen.
(5) Autodesk SketchBook was one of the best yet, with plenty of depth yet an accessible interface for the scribblers among us.
(6) SketchBook Pro SKETCHBOOK PRO £2.99 Published by computer graphics veteran Autodesk, SketchBook has quickly found a wide audience of casual scribblers and professional artists alike.
(7) More Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(8) But, as it happens, I am pretty sure it is one that my darling and brilliant late wife would advance, partly because as a historian she had a deep understanding of the role of scribblers in the creation and advance of our democracy, and partly because – despite everything – she never dumped the bleedin' Daily Mail.
(9) For what it’s worth, this scribbler would merely have loved to see him test his skills against Joe Louis.
(10) She exposed just how lamentably ill-equipped our society is when dealing with scientific advances, a field of endeavour that attracts our best brains but remains closed to most individuals, no matter how hard we science scribblers try to interest them.
(11) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(12) And that’s something that all of us, at every level and every function, can use more of.” Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(13) As Keynes observed of “madmen in authority”, the present government is “distilling its frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back” – in this case the ideology of the so-called Washington Consensus, with its cult of competition and markets and its absurd belief in rational choice.
(14) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(15) Read more from Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(16) Another scribbler compared the challenge facing Greece to the 12 labours of Hercules.