machine
/məˈʃin/ verb C2- To make by machinery.
- To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.
He/she/it machines · Past machined · Past participle machined · -ing form machining
Verb forms
- Base form
- machine
- He/she/it
- machines
- Past
- machined
- Past participle
- machined
- -ing form
- machining
From the library
Monte Cristo looked in turn at the two iron handles by which the machine was worked.
It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause.
“Alas, yes; the poor old gentleman is entirely helpless; the mind alone is still active in this human machine, and that is faint and flickering, like the light of a lamp about to expire.
I shall, therefore, not visit either of these telegraphs, but one in the open country where I shall find a good-natured simpleton, who knows no more than the machine he is employed to work.”
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