a. : a mechanically, electrically, or electronically operated device for performing a task. an espresso machine. The store sold treadmills and other exercise machines. manufactures machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceuticals . Rosie Fitzmaurice. b. : conveyance, vehicle. especially : automobile. rbC40UZ7UUmq machine (v.) mid-15c., "decide, resolve," from Old French and Latin usages, from Latin machina "machine, engine, military machine; device, trick; instrument," from Greek makhana, Doric variant of Attic mēkhanē "device, tool; contrivance, cunning" (see machine (n.)). Meaning "to apply machinery to, to make or form on or by the aid of a machine" is from 1878. 9n1O7ncXj0Mc
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