Definizione monolingua

machine

machine (third-person singular simple present machines, present participle machining, simple past and past participle machined)

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

machine (plural machines)

1. A mechanical or electrical device that performs or assists in the performance of human tasks, whether physical or computational, laborious or for entertainment.
2. (archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.
3. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

   I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.

4. (computing) A computer.

   Game developers assume theyre pushing the limits of the machine.

5. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

   Bruce Campbell was a ""demon-killing machine"" because he made quick work of killing demons.

   The government has become a money-making machine.

6. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization.
7. penis
   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 3

     He now resumes his attempts in more form: first, he put one of the pillows under me, to give the blank of his aim a more favourable elevation, and another under my head, in ease of it; then spreading my thighs, and placing himself standing between them, made them rest upon his hips; applying then the point of his machine to the slit, into which he sought entrance

Definizione dizionario machine

	macchina
	a person who is very proficient
	mechanical or electrical device
	Congegno atto a svolgere un determinato lavoro più o meno complesso.
	A device able to perform a particular, more or less complex, job.

	computer
	A computer, either physical or virtual, capable of processing information to produce a desired result.

apparecchio

lavorare alla macchina

ordigno

Altri significati:

make by machine

(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

A mechanical or electrical device that performs or assists in the performance of human tasks, whether physical or computational, laborious or for entertainment.

(archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.

(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

to shape or finish by machinery.

Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization.

archaic: vehicle, automobile

(computing) A computer.

to make by machinery.

group that controls an organization