(of machine parts)
31machine — ▪ I. machine ma‧chine 1 [məˈʆiːn] noun [countable] a piece of equipment that uses power such as electricity to do a particular task: • Labour and machines are both at full capacity in the production department. • We plan to upgrade all machines… …
32machine — noun 1 piece of equipment ADJECTIVE ▪ giant, great, huge, large, powerful ▪ portable ▪ automated, automatic …
33machine — ma|chine1 W1S1 [məˈʃi:n] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Old French; Origin: Latin machina, from Greek mechane, from mechos way of doing things ] 1.) a piece of equipment with moving parts that uses power such as electricity to do a particular job… …
34Machine Gun Corps — The Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in World War I. The Heavy Branch of the MGC was the first to use tanks in… …
35machine shop — noun workshop where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑workshop, ↑shop * * * noun : a workshop in which work is machined to size and assembled * * * a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut,… …
36Machine-readable passport — Page of a passport with Machine Readable Zone in the red oval A Machine Readable Passport (MRP) is a travel document where the data on the identity page is encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue machine… …
37machine — [[t]məʃi͟ːn[/t]] ♦♦ machines, machining, machined 1) N COUNT: also by N A machine is a piece of equipment which uses electricity or an engine in order to do a particular kind of work. I put the coin in the machine and pulled the lever... The… …
38Machine press — Manual goldsmith press Power press with a fixed barr …
39machine — {{11}}machine (n.) 1540s, structure of any kind, from M.Fr. machine device, contrivance, from L. machina machine, engine, military machine; device, trick; instrument (Cf. Sp. maquina, It. macchina), from Gk. makhana, Doric variant of mekhane… …
40Machine Gun (Jimi Hendrix song) — Infobox song| Name = Machine Gun Artist = Jimi Hendrix Album = Band of Gypsys Recorded = 1 January, 1970 Genre = Psychedelic rock, blues rock Length = 12:32 Label = MCA Writer = Jimi Hendrix Producer = Heaven Research Machine Gun is a song… …
