machine

Definitions

• A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
• (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
• (telephony) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
• (computing) A computer.
• (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
• 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.
• Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
• (politics) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
• (euphemistic) Penis.
• (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
• (obsolete) A bathing machine.