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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
machinery
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 measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery.
▪ He had the farm now, which had its uses, as well as the agricultural machinery business.
▪ Look across the field and you can appreciate why space for storing vintage agricultural machinery on the farm has finally run out.
▪ The social historian may he interested in changing modes of dress, or agricultural and industrial machinery.
▪ There were more than 100 trade stands, including vast displays of sophisticated hi-tech agricultural machinery.
▪ In addition, a consultation fee of £4,000 was agreed between the agricultural machinery supplier for introducing the client and closing the sale.
▪ Built it up, made a go of it. Agricultural machinery, can you beat that?
complex
▪ This rough-and-ready reasoning is upside-down to the slow, thorough, in-control approach most industrial designers bring to complex machinery.
▪ The bumble bee has developed complex machinery for collecting pollen.
heavy
▪ Komatsu, which makes heavy machinery, is integrating its research system with that of its suppliers.
▪ Afterward, you can still drive and operate heavy machinery.
▪ The stolid chugging, the intense revving of big diesels, the bass throb: it all signalled heavy machinery at work.
▪ There was quite an array of heavy machinery in sight, but none close enough to be a plausible source of accident.
▪ Patterns made in fields by the tracks of heavy machinery also frequently resemble patterns associated with archaeological remains.
▪ Case Corp. led the advance amid optimism the heavy-machinery manufacturer will post robust profits for the fourth quarter.
▪ This, and the sound of heavy machinery passing underneath the window, kept me tossing and turning.
▪ The steady hum of the drilling rigs and the rough growls of heavy machinery moving on the road smear the coastal quiet.
industrial
▪ All four admitted a second charge of conspiracy to handle stolen motor vehicles, industrial plant and machinery.
▪ The social historian may he interested in changing modes of dress, or agricultural and industrial machinery.
legal
▪ Care, however, must be taken here: dispute settlement does not necessarily involve legal machinery.
▪ Federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski, a Ronald Reagan appointee, recently attacked the legal machinery of capital punishment.
▪ Part Five explains the legal machinery for protecting children looked after outside the family but not by local authorities.
modern
▪ He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.
▪ Machinery contracting not only helped the farm's cash-flow but also, once established, gave the farm access to modern machinery.
▪ All reaping must be done by hand using sickle and scythe due to the difficulty in using modern machinery.
▪ In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery.
▪ The second phase of installation of modern machinery was due to start this month.
new
▪ We must always be on the lookout for 38A NEW methods and machinery which will help reduce costs.
▪ The building will house new replacement machinery for the flocking equipment destroyed in the Dec. 11 blaze.
▪ This, not the introduction of new machinery, was the grievance of the framework knitters.
▪ Breweries, bakeries and many other businesses will be forced to invest in new, cleaner machinery.
▪ A heavy investment in new machinery was needed before Ashley Mountney could offer wool garments.
▪ The arrangements for development control schemes have been superseded by new consultation machinery.
▪ Moreover, management did not take the opportunities presented by the new machinery to tighten control over production.
▪ The new central machinery will not make it easy.
old
▪ This was due to poor buildings, old machinery and accumulation of mental and physical fatigue because of the unrelenting nature of the activity.
▪ The road ended just there, in a long concrete hardstand where a cart and some rusting old farm machinery were parked.
▪ You can cut down on cost per unit by continuing with the old machinery.
▪ This was a wooden hut in which there was some old machinery that generated electricity for the house.
■ NOUN
factory
▪ The defendants were subject to a fine of £100 for breach of statutory duty in failing to fence factory machinery.
farm
▪ He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.
▪ Until the combine appeared, the self-binder had been the mechanical marvel of the farm machinery industry for forty years.
▪ A fire service spokeswoman said the outhouses contained mostly farm machinery.
▪ They were brothers; they were transporting farm machinery from Los Angeles to Minnesota and making good money at it.
▪ These included providing extra farm machinery and manpower, including 20,000 troops.
▪ They were one of the first, and certainly one of the most successful, manufacturers of steam-powered farm machinery.
▪ The road ended just there, in a long concrete hardstand where a cart and some rusting old farm machinery were parked.
▪ Dead sheep and lambs were found in farm machinery.
state
▪ In pre-modern Berlin the claims on land of this expanding state machinery had already driven land values famously high.
■ VERB
buy
▪ He has a co-operative bank manager and managed to buy second hand machinery.
▪ They bought machinery to improve output.
▪ The company has bought the necessary continuous-welding machinery and is training operators.
▪ New loans went to pay off the interest on earlier loans rather than on buying new farm machinery or modernising farming methods.
drive
▪ Three waterwheels drove the machinery here.
▪ Afterward, you can still drive and operate heavy machinery.
▪ Indeed, such medication usually carries a warning stating that the individual should not drive or operate machinery after taking it.
▪ Waterpower could be used to drive machinery, but few contemplated converting it into electricity.
▪ The other still has insitu the wooden undershot waterwheel installed to drive its grinding machinery.
▪ Evershed planned twelve lateral canals to supply water to 238 individual wheel pits, each driving its own machinery.
▪ For centuries, traditional windmills harnessed the wind to drive machinery for grinding wheat into flour.
▪ If affected do not drive or operate machinery.
operate
▪ Indeed, such medication usually carries a warning stating that the individual should not drive or operate machinery after taking it.
▪ Afterward, you can still drive and operate heavy machinery.
▪ If affected do not drive or operate machinery.
▪ If accumulation is rapid then large numbers of workers must regularly be available to operate newly installed machinery.
▪ People holding loud parties or operating noisy machinery will be closely scrutinised by the council's environmental health officers.
▪ With little additional labour available, employers compete fiercely for labour to operate newly installed machinery.
provide
▪ Then industry and farming can be benefitted by providing grants and machinery etc.
▪ The Pact did not provide any machinery for enforcement: it merely pledged the nations to outlaw war.
▪ The Rules of Court provide machinery for the quantification.
▪ Although the visitor's position is anomalous, it provides a valuable machinery for resolving internal disputes which should not be lost.
▪ In some cases, notably personal injuries cases, rules of court have provided special machinery to assist a plaintiff.
▪ Money was needed to build the factories and provide the machinery to exploit these resources to the fullest extent.
set
▪ They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it.
use
▪ They closed a few plants and decided to use the idle machinery to make plastic chips for cigarette filters.
▪ The system's friendly to the environment because it doesn't use any machinery.
▪ Waterpower could be used to drive machinery, but few contemplated converting it into electricity.
▪ Both industries use heavy and complicated machinery.
▪ In such circumstances, they manage to carry on by using backup metabolic machinery designed to burn glucose without oxygen.
▪ All reaping must be done by hand using sickle and scythe due to the difficulty in using modern machinery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a company that manufactures farm machinery
▪ farm machinery
▪ Industrial machinery and electronic equipment lead the nation's export list.
▪ Loose clothing and jewelry can easily get caught in the machinery.
▪ the machinery of government
▪ The package says you shouldn't drive or operate heavy machinery after taking these pills.
▪ We've come to depend on labor-saving machinery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Employment in electrical machinery trebled, again increasing its share by half a million.
▪ I saw them passing enormous sheets of colored paper and cardboard through the sharp blade of humming, dangerous machinery.
▪ Pressure on costs will lead to improvements in harvesting machinery and more sensitive use of cleaners.
▪ Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily.
▪ They are vital for cleaning machinery tubes and spouts from vending machines and milk shake dispensers to full blown process machinery.
▪ They had invested heavily in their branded products and in the machinery to make them.
▪ Washing-machines, and similar sorts of domestic machinery, are intended to save our time and labour.
▪ What I object to is the craze for machinery, not machinery as such.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Machinery

Machinery \Ma*chin"er*y\, n. [From Machine: cf. F. machinerie.]

  1. Machines, in general, or collectively.

  2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.

  3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.

    The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem.
    --Pope.

  4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

    An indispensable part of the machinery of state.
    --Macaulay.

    The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages.
    --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
machinery

1680s; from machine (n.) + -ery. Originally theatrical, "devices for creating stage effects" (which also was a sense of Greek mekhane); meaning "machines collectively" is attested from 1731. Middle English had machinament "a contrivance" (early 15c.).

Wiktionary
machinery

n. 1 The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively. 2 The working parts of a machine as a group. 3 The collective parts of something which allow it to function. 4 (context figuratively English) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

WordNet
machinery

  1. n. machines or machine systems collectively

  2. 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"

Wikipedia
Machinery (disambiguation)

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 of government, processes of government
  • Machinery Records, German record label

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.