(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?
Winder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.
(n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.
(n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.
(v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
(n.) A blow taking away the breath.
(v. i.) To wither; to fail.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author and journalist Robert Winder detailed in his book Bloody Foreigners how Charles Dickens, in creating the character of Fagin for Oliver Twist , refashioned a real social problem.
(2) Darren Winder, an economist at Cazenove, is gloomy.
(3) Students scrambled “like ants, people screaming, ‘Get out!’” Winder said.
(4) It’s about making sure there are more books available that people will feel they are entitled to pick up and browse,” said Simon Winder, publishing director of Penguin Classics.
(5) | Robert Winder Read more Which brings us to housing.
(6) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Newcastle University Runner-up : University of Reading Runner-up : University of Bradford Social and community impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dr Belinda Winder and Lynn Saunders from Nottingham Trent University with Paul Sinha and their social and community impact award for The Safer Living Foundation.
(7) Next door, students heard a loud thud and then a volley of gunfire, Brady Winder, 23, told the newspaper.
(8) These data, coupled with the inhibition of actomyosin ATPase by calponin (Winder, S. J., and Walsh, M. P. (1990) J. Biol.
(9) We have tested the hypothesis of Winder and Walsh [(1990) J. Biol.
(10) Winder also posted on Facebook: Hey everybody, I am safe.
(11) Corresponding preventive measures were proposed to lower the labour intensity of female electric coil winders.
(12) Simon Winder, publishing director at Penguin, called him an "utterly remarkable man".
(13) 279, 65-68] that calponin phosphorylation is not involved in smooth muscle regulation in vivo, as has been suggested from in vitro studies [Winder, S. J.
(14) A camera equipped with 50 mm macro-objective lens, with automatic flash and winder is attached to a motor-operated rotatable stand.
(15) Darren Winder at Cazenove said the key driver of the improvement was likely to have been a rebuilding in inventories, which fell to exceptionally low levels in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of this year as manufacturing firms cut production levels.
(16) "Do you think that I planned and plotted, or lost a wink of sleep, scheming to spend a considerable part of my life trying to identify hog-slappers, cheese-winders' clerks, or theatre fireman's night companions?"
(17) Histological study of lungs from horses with mild, moderate and severe chronic small airway disease consistently revealed a greater density of lesions in the diaphragmatic lobes (Winder and von Fellenberg, 1988).
(18) So there’s some Chinese and Japanese and Arabic writing in there, as well as different religious texts,” said Winder.
(19) It’s about the incredible importance of having books lying around, and getting away from the curriculum.” Winder said it had been a “crushing responsibility” to select the 100 titles Penguin is offering.
(20) The article contains a hygienic assessment of the working conditions of female coil winders engaged in high-powered electric engines' assembling.