Alternativa stavningar

Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: /mə.ˈʃiːn/
  • UttalUK:
    • IPA: [mə.ˈʃiːn]

Förkortningar

ÖversättningKontext
Substantiv
1.makineteknologi
2.makinamaskinteknik

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
  2. (archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.
  3. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
  4. (computing) A computer.
  5. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
  6. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
  7. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
  8. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.

Verb

  1. to make by machinery.
  2. to shape or finish by machinery.

Exempel

  • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
  • I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
  • Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
  • Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.
  • The government has become a money-making machine.
  • The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.
  • Our machine room contains 120 computers.
  • The machine is acting up again. I think it has a computer virus.
  • Replicants are like any other machine, they're either a benefit or a hazard... If they're a benefit, it's not my problem..

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipmachined
Imperfektmachined
Presensparticipmachining
Pluralmachines
Tredje person singular indicativ presensmachines