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machine
verb[ T ]
uk /məˈʃiːn/us
PRODUCTION
to make or change the shape of something using a machine:
Each hole has to be accurately machined.
The sides are carefully machined to fit the cylinders.

Examples of machine

machine
Today's biologists routinely scrounge resources from university machines or borrow time on home computers.
At that time, these seemed to be the only alternatives: either men were machines, or animals were motivated by will and intention.
Shortening lead times and the possibilities of widening the product range made on a single set of machines adds considerable complexity to the operation.
The machines could have been used to pace the workers, or management could have monitored the utilisation rate of the various machines.
Today, specialization is promoted by the fact that different workers must learn to run different machines, such as saws and polishers.
All the improvements in machinery, however, have by no means been the invention of those who had occasion to use the machines.
A fourth was the change in the productivity of reaping machines themselves over time.
The slower early machines generated few or no humancompetitive results, whereas the faster more recent machines have generated numerous human-competitive results.
During the first setup, the hole pattern, both steps, and the counterbored hole will be machined.
If we could make flawless machines, any errors would then be due even more certainly to blunders of people misusing them.
The children were given a compound production task, one designed to elicit their production of novel compounds to describe machines acting on objects.
However, only a few studies have considered the nature of the interaction between children and musical machines.
He analyzed blue money and red money, blue machines and red machines, and blue land and red land.
The machines were therefore usually underutilised, and processing time was wasted.
However, farmers now rely less on these machines, which are now old and decrepit, than they did in the recent past.
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Collocations withmachine

machine

These are words often used in combination with machine.

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adding machine
Since adding machines are minimal, such an addingmachine has to be equal to the closure of the trajectory of the turning point.
automated machine
There is, therefore, a considerable market for automatedmachine tools and for automated machinery for steel works and for railways.
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