<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>An apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.</li><li>A mechanical apparatus or contrivance; mechanism.</li><li>Mechanics: a device that transmits or modifies force or motion.</li><li>Also called simple machine: any of six or more elementary mechanisms, as the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, wedge, and inclined plane.</li><li>Also called complex machine: a combination of simple machines.</li><li>Older Use: an automobile or airplane; a typewriter; a bicycle or motorcycle.</li><li>A vending machine: a cigarette machine.</li><li>Any complex agency or operating system: the machine of government.</li><li>An organized group of persons that conducts or controls the activities of a political party or organization: He heads the Democratic machine in our city.</li><li>A person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner: Routine work had turned her into a machine.</li><li>Any of various contrivances, especially those formerly used in the theater, for producing stage effects: The ancient Greeks used a theatrical machine to lower actors onto the stage.</li><li>Some agency, personage, incident or other feature introduced for effect into a literary composition.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>To make, prepare, or finish with a machine or with machine tools.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>