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A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions
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machinery
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Word definitions for machinery in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Machinery \Ma*chin"er*y\, n. [From Machine : cf. F. machinerie.] Machines, in general, or collectively. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES farm machinery ▪ In the field, there was a tractor and some other farm machinery. heavy machinery ▪ a company which manufactures heavy machinery COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE agricultural ▪ They attacked specific ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Machinery refers to mechanical machines. Machinery can also refer to: Agricultural machinery , machinery used in agriculture Cotton-spinning machinery , machinery used to spin cotton Stage machinery , mechanical devices used in stage productions Machinery ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. machines or machine systems collectively a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"
Usage examples of machinery.
But it would indeed mean that the same forces who control the Actionists also control the machinery of the Humanity Party.
Club-feet, wry neck, spinal curvature, hip-joint disease, white swellings, and stiffened joints, are all readily amendable to the curative effects of motion administered by the manipulator and other machinery.
Of course, an aerial warship will have to be big, for it will have to carry extra machinery to give it extra speed, and it will have to carry a certain armament, and a large crew will be needed.
Games were also to go to the lower level and take the aft end including the auxiliary machinery room, then cover Pig and Python.
As with the basic reform agenda itself, the decision to rely on already existing machineries of government was formalized at the eleventh hour.
In perfecting this alterative compound, and likewise other standard preparations of medicine, we have made an outlay of many thousand dollars for chemical apparatus, and special machinery by the aid of which these remedies have been brought to their present perfection.
The labor unions deserve to be favored, because they are the most effective machinery which has as yet been forged for the economic and social amelioration of the laboring class.
True, in what I actually do in the laboratory, I am trapped in an artefactual world mediated by machinery.
The constantly increasing accumulation of pieces of machinery, big brass castings, block tin, casks, crates, and packages of innumerable articles, by their demands for space, necessitated the sacrifice of most of the slighter partitions of the house, and the beams and flooring of the upper chambers were also mercilessly sawn away by the tireless scientist in such a way as to convert them into mere shelves and corner brackets of the atrial space between cellars and rafters.
The axillary artery was seen lying in the wound, pulsating feebly, but had been efficiently closed by the torsion of the machinery.
Once he has stepped on the inevitable machinery of fate that will carry him to his bathetic denouement, nothing he can say or do will alter his lot.
So sang Bibbs, his musical gaieties inaudible to his fellow-workmen because of the noise of the machinery.
GOP machinery fall into the hands of the Birchers and the right-wing crazies for a few months.
A baldish, pudgy man named Casher was summoned when Harry inquired for machinery, without specifying the kind that he wanted.
For grown-up people the modern books which are sent out in such numbers, often very cheap, have likewise an artificial cityfied air so obviously got up and theatrical, such a mark of machinery on them, all stamped and chucked out by the thousand, that they have no attraction for a people who live with nature, and even in old age retain a certain childlike faith in honesty and genuine work.