Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for machine. Search instead for machini.
Definitions

machine

[muh-sheen] / məˈʃin /


NOUN
well-run political organization
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

When she insists the machine can perform any medical test, Fielder finds himself drawn into an absurd debate over the meaning of the word “can.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

He suspected they’d be neither—his field had been using machine translation since the 1950s.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

China’s export machine has looked all but unstoppable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Emissions reductions can be made, for example, by using AI to schedule a washing machine to run when solar electricity is abundant, Singh said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The woman was more impressive than any machine.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Doug Field will oversee product, engineering, operations and more at the company that aims to put “human-like” machines in factories in the coming years, the Journal’s Patrick George writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Where the movies are big, loud, overpopulated machines, the TV series are full of interesting ideas, weird notions and good comedy and give their characters room to breathe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

These things are not mysterious machines that may disrupt the world in all kinds of ways.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

In other words, identical behavior did not lead people to assign the same level of consciousness to humans and machines.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The mining station looked like a floating city, with buildings and walkways and machines and antennas rising up from a wide platform.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The monitor had been designed with screws in the back that had 25 concentric circles machined into their flat heads to make them sparkle as light passed over them.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Still, in our endless chase of machined refinement, I think we’re missing the value of human irregularity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

The carbon fibre hull had titanium domes fitted on each end, but he said the metal had been machined incorrectly.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

Among the group's precision machined elements are flexures -- spring-like devices, often made from parallel beams, that can flex and stretch with nanometer precision.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

The starter’s silver-plated gong rang, a sprocket turned, a valve opened, and the engine whooshed to life on exquisitely machined shafts and bearings.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

It previously housed the company's machining shop and later its research and development workshop.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

WC-Co cemented carbides are widely used in applications that demand extreme hardness and resistance to wear, including cutting tools, drills, machining equipment, and construction tools.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

This shift is driving investment in capacity and skill-building into precision machining and tooling, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

“Our 737 program is performing rework on a group of airplanes to fix wires that have small scratches due to a machining error,” a Boeing spokesperson said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

“So I guess you’re an expert at welding and machining now,” he said.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


Vocabulary lists containing machine

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training