machinery

/məˈʃiːn(ə)ri/

US pronunciation

American sound/məˈʃiːn(ə)ri/

məˈʃiːnəri

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

mə - ˈʃiːnəri -> machinery

Myanmar meaning

(n) စက်ယန္တရား။ စက်အစိတ်အပိုင်း။

Full entry

machine / mǝ'ʃi:n / n

၁။ [C] (က) စက်။
a sewing-machine / washing-machine ❍ a life-support machine ❍ office machines such as computers, word processors and photocopiers ❍ I phoned her but all I got was her answering machine. ❍ Machines have replaced human labour in many industries.
(ခ) (infml ) အိမ်သုံး စက်၊ ယာဉ် စသည်တို့ကို ခေါ်သည့်စကား။ put the clothes in the machine (ie the washing-machine (WASHING)).
၂။ [CGp] စက်ယန္တရား။ (politics ) the well-oiled party machine ❍ The public relations machine covered up the firm's heavy losses.
၃။ [C] (derog ) စက်ရုပ်လိုလူ။ See also FRUIT MACHINE, SLOT-MACHINE
v
၁။ စက်ဖြင့် ခုတ်သည်။ The edge of the disc had been machined flat/smooth.
၂။ (Brit ) အပ်ချုပ်စက်ဖြင့် ချုပ်သည်။ I have to machine the hem.
❏ machine code ( also machine language) n (computing ) ကွန်ပျူတာသင်္ကေတ။
❏ machine-gun n စက်သေနတ်။ a burst / hail of machine-gun fire. ❍ GUN
v (-nn- ) စက်သေနတ်ဖြင့် ပစ်သည်။
❏ machine - made adj စက်ဖြစ်။
Compare HANDMADE
❏ machine-readable adj (computing ) ကွန်ပျူတာ နားလည်နိုင်သော (အချက်အလက်)။
❏ machinery / mǝ'ʃi:nǝri / n [U]
၁။ စက်ယန္တရား။
A lot of new machinery has been installed.
၂။ စက်အစိတ် အပိုင်း။ the machinery of a clock.
၃။ ~ ( of sth / for doing sth ) ယန္တရား။ reform the machinery of government ❍ We have no machinery for dealing with complaints. ❍ All this will be processed by the Home Office machinery.
❏ machine tool n ဖြတ်တောက် ခုတ်ထွင်ရာတွင် သုံးသော စက်ကိရိယာတန်ဆာပလာ။
❏ machinist / mǝ'ʃi:nist / n
၁။ စက်မောင်း။
၂။ စက်ဆရာ။

More examples

Sue showed him how to operate the machine.
[by machine] : These companies do everything by machine these days.
Put the disk in your machine and click on the ‘A’ drive.
Users will be able to upgrade their machines as necessary.
There’s a message on the machine for you.
Is it okay to put this shirt in the machine?
You can get a cup of coffee out of the machine.
He said the machine had swallowed his card.
[a fighting/killing machine] : The lion is an efficient killing machine.
[a well-oiled machine] : The team is a well-oiled machine right now.
By the end of the evening I felt like a cooking machine.
The British war machine
[a money/propaganda machine] : He criticized those who had turned politics into a ‘money machine’.
[the government/party machine] : The government machine moved swiftly to deny the allegations.
That’s a mean machine (=a beautiful vehicle) you’ve got there.

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