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machinery Definition

ma·chin·ery (mə s̸hēn′ər ē, -s̸hēn′rē)

noun pl. -·er·ies

  1. machines collectively
  2. the working parts of a machine
  3. any combination of things or persons by which something is kept in action or a desired result is obtained the machinery of government
  4. apparatus used to produce stage effects
  5. literary devices involving the introduction of supernatural beings or forces, as in epic poetry

machinery Synonyms

machinery

n.

  1. Mechanical equipment

    appliances, implements, tools; see appliance, device 1, engine, machine 1, motor.

  2. Devices

    contrivances, machinations, plans, artifices; see device 2, means, method 2.

machinery Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • operate: You must not drive or operate machinery for the rest of the day.
  • rotate: Rotating fluids are often found in rotating machinery and process equipment.
  • vibrate: Use rubber mats and provide shoes with thick rubber soles for operators who have to stand operating vibrating machinery.
  • dismantle: At every single level, we have to pursue and dismantle this machinery of terror.
  • manufacture: Includes technological aspects of the integration of manufacturing machinery into integrated production systems.
  • rust: The Factory - Another fairly small level, again a metal theme, with lots of rusting machinery around which sets the style nicely.

Adjective modifier

  • woodworking: Most woodworking machinery is included under this heading together with some office machinery.
  • agricultural: In its own right, the Royal Highland Show is the largest trade exhibition of agricultural machinery in the UK.
  • hydraulic: WATER WHEELS In the late 18th and early 19th Century hydraulic machinery was extensively used in mines.
  • heavy: There is heavy plant machinery standing idle around her.
  • transcriptional: Our targeting system utilizes the transcriptional machineries of cancer cells, in particular the use of the respective telomerase promoter elements.
  • cellular: On your chromosomes are specific sections called genes, which code for proteins and enzymes and so on - the cellular machinery.

Modifies a noun

  • manufacturer: In 1850 there were 13 ribbon manufacturers, 120 ribbon weavers with three or more looms, and five machinery manufacturers in Hillfields.
  • dealer: The British Agricultural and Garden Machinery Association ( BAGMA ) is the trade association for the UK's agricultural and turf care machinery dealers.

Noun used with modifier

  • farm: Prepare to use farm machinery to assist the Fire Service.
  • bargaining: Collective Agreements National collective bargaining machinery for academic and academic-related staff is arranged through Universities UK.
  • water-lifting: At Cosa in Italy, archeologists have found evidence for the water-lifting machinery that supplied public baths.
  • milling: The drive to the milling machinery returned to the wheelhouse via a belt drive that came in through a hatch in the roof.
  • disarmament: The Conference on Disarmament was created in 1961 as a centerpiece in the nuclear disarmament machinery.
  • mill: Some of the mill machinery can still be seen.
machinery Quotes

Were we required to characterise this age of ours byany single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical,Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of the word.

—Carlyle,Thomas

The instruments of labour, when they assume the form of machinery, acquire a kind of material existence which involves the replacement of human forces by the forces of Nature, and of rule-of-thumb methods by the purposeful application of natural science.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

—Shaw, George Bernard

The liberty that the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by the governmental machinery that he lives under, whether representative or otherwise, but by the paucity of restraints that it imposes upon him.

—Spencer, Herbert

Lord Hailsham said the other day that the machinery of Government was creaking. My Lords, it is not even moving sufficiently to emit a noise of any kind.

—Montagu, (Alexander) Victor Edward Paulet

Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood isrunning money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

—Ginsberg, Allen

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machineryand primitive music and primitive medicine.

—Leacock, Stephen Butler

I read somewhere that machinery isgoing to take the place of every profession. Oh my dear that's something you'll never have to worry about.

—Marion, Frances originally Frances Marion Owens

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one, a savage city, yet it had such tenderness, a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone and steel and tunnelled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate.

—Wolfe,Thomas Clayton

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

—Engels, Friedrich