different between machine vs artifice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin m?china (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek ??????? (m?khan??), cognate with Attic Greek ?????? (m?khan?, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical.

Displaced native Old English searu.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m???in/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

machine (plural machines)

1. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
2. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
3. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

4. (computing) A computer.

5. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

6. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.

   • The whole machine of government, civil and religious, ought never to bear upon the people with a weight so oppressive

7. (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

   • I am apt to think, that the changing of the Trojan fleet into water-nymphs, which is the most violent machine in the whole Æneid{{..}}

8. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
   • 1902, The Friend

     A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket (as be and his clique of party bosses prepare it) should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party.

   • 2006, Jerry F. Hough, Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-blue State Alignment, Algora Publishing ?ISBN, page 37

     In essence, therefore, the right-fork strategy of the Democrats meant an alliance of the South with the political machines built on the non-Protestant immigrants in key Northeastern states.

   • 2013, Paul M. Green, Melvin G. Holli, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, fourth edition, SIU Press ?ISBN, page 126

     He was thrust into a political maelstrom for which he was ill-prepared, and yet he was, most notably, the Chicago machine's political savior.

9. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
10. (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
11. (obsolete) A bathing machine.
    • 1823, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 512:

      One Machine only was provided for Bathers, the Limitted smoothness of the sands not extending widely enough to admit another.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:machine

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: masin
• ? Hindustani: ???? (ma??n) / ????? (ma??n)
• ? Irish: meaisín
• ? Japanese: ??? (mashin)
• ? Maori: m?hini
• ? Swahili: mashine

Translations

References

• machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

machine (third-person singular simple present machines, present participle machining, simple past and past participle machined)

1. to make by machinery.
2. to shape or finish by machinery.

Derived terms

• machinist

Translations

Further reading

• machine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• machine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Eichman

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French machine, from Middle French machine, from Latin m?china, from Doric Greek ??????? (m?khan??).

Alternative forms

• machien (archaic or colloquial)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???in?/
• Hyphenation: ma?chi?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

machine f (plural machines, diminutive machientje n or machinetje n)

1. machine (mechanical or electrical device)

Derived terms

• machinaal
• machineren
• naaimachine
• nietmachine
• schrijfmachine
• tunnelboormachine
• vliegmachine
• wasmachine

Related terms

• machinatie
• machinist
• mechaniek
• mechanisch

Descendants

• Afrikaans: masjien
• ? Malay: mesin
  • Indonesian: mesin
  • ? Sundanese: ?????? (mesin)

French

Etymology

From Middle French machine, borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), itself a borrowing from Doric Ancient Greek ??????? (m?khan??).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?in/

Noun

machine f (plural machines)

1. machine, device (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. (slang) machine (a person who is very efficient)

Derived terms

Related terms

• machinal
• machination
• machiner
• machinisme
• machiniste
• mécanique
• mécanisme

Descendants

Further reading

• “machine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• chemina

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin machina.

Noun

machine f (plural machines)

1. machine; device

Descendants

• French: machine (see there for further descendants)
• ? English: machine (see there for further descendants)

References

• “machine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (machine, supplement)

English

Etymology

From Middle French artifice, from Latin artificium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)t?f?s/

Noun

artifice (countable and uncountable, plural artifices)

1. A crafty but underhanded deception.
2. A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.
3. A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.
4. A tactical move to gain advantage.
5. (archaic) Something made with technical skill; a contrivance.

Translations

Verb

artifice (third-person singular simple present artifices, present participle artificing, simple past and past participle artificed)

1. To construct by means of skill or specialised art

Related terms

• artificial

Further reading

• artifice at OneLook Dictionary Search
• artifice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• actifier

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin artificium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.ti.fis/

Noun

artifice m (plural artifices)

1. artifice, trick, ploy
2. (literary) device

Derived terms

• artificiel
• feu d'artifice
• sans artifice

Further reading

• “artifice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

artifice

1. ablative singular of artifex