Machine

Definition

machine / mǝ'ʃi:n / n ၁။ [C] (က) စက္။ 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 ) အိမ္သံုး စက္၊ ယာဥ္ စသည္တို႔ကို ေခၚသည့္စကား။ put the clothes in the machine (ie the washing-machine (WASHING)). ၂။ [CGp] စက္ယႏၲရား။ ( politics ) the well-oiled party machine ❍ The public relations machine covered up the firm's heavy losses. ၃။ [C] ( derog ) စက္႐ုပ္လိုလူ။ See also FRUIT MACHINE, SLOT-MACHINE v ၁။ စက္ျဖင့္ ခုတ္သည္။ The edge of the disc had been machined flat/smooth. ၂။ ( Brit ) အပ္ခ်ဳပ္စက္ျဖင့္ ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ I have to machine the hem. ❏ machine code ( also machine language) n ( computing ) ကြန္ပ်ဴတာသေကၤတ။ ❏ machine-gun n စက္ေသနတ္။ a burst / hail of machine-gun fire. ❍ GUN v ( -nn- ) စက္ေသနတ္ျဖင့္ ပစ္သည္။ ❏ machine - made adj စက္ျဖစ္။ Compare HANDMADE ❏ machine-readable adj ( computing ) ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ နားလည္ႏိုင္ေသာ (အခ်က္အလက္)။ ❏ machinery / mǝ'ʃi:nǝri / n [U] ၁။ စက္ယႏၲရား။ A lot of new machinery has been installed. ၂။ စက္အစိတ္ အပိုင္း။ the machinery of a clock. ၃။ ~ ( of sth / for doing sth ) ယႏၲရား။ 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 ျဖတ္ေတာက္ ခုတ္ထြင္ရာတြင္ သံုးေသာ စက္ကိရိယာတန္ဆာပလာ။ ❏ machinist / mǝ'ʃi:nist / n ၁။ စက္ေမာင္း။ ၂။ စက္ဆရာ။

Examples

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