different between machinery vs apparat

English

Etymology

From French machinerie (“machinery”), from machine (“machine”); see machine.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?-sh?'n?-r?, IPA^(key): /m???i?n??i/
• Rhymes: -i?n??i

Noun

machinery (countable and uncountable, plural machineries)

1. The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
2. The working parts of a machine as a group.
3. The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

   All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.

4. (figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

Derived terms

• heavy machinery
• political machinery

Related terms

• machinist

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• hemicrany

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???????? (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

apparat (plural apparats)

1. The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 184:

     The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.

Related terms

• apparatchik
• apparatus

Danish

Etymology

German Apparat (“device, apparatus”), from Latin appar?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aparat/, [?b???????d?], /ap?rat/, [?b???????d?]

Noun

apparat n (singular definite apparatet, plural indefinite apparater)

1. instrument, apparatus, appliance, machine
2. device
3. radio or TV set
4. camera
5. telephone, handset, extension
6. machinery

Inflection

Further reading

• “apparat” in Den Danske Ordbog
• apparat on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apparatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pa.?a/

Noun

apparat m (plural apparats)

1. pomp, ceremony

Derived terms

• apparat critique

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

apparat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of appar?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Noun

apparat n (definite singular apparatet, indefinite plural apparat or apparater, definite plural apparata or apparatene)

1. mechanical or electrical device, appliance or instrument
2. apparatus

Derived terms

• fjernsynsapparat
• forstørrelsesapparat
• fotoapparat
• kassaapparat, kasseapparat

References

• “apparat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Noun

apparat n (definite singular apparatet, indefinite plural apparat, definite plural apparata)

1. mechanical or electrical device, appliance or instrument
2. apparatus

Derived terms

• fjernsynsapparat
• fotoapparat
• kassaapparat, kasseapparat

References

• “apparat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Pronunciation

Noun

apparat c

1. apparatus; complex machine or instrument, often run by electricity
2. apparatus; a bureaucratic organization, especially within the area of politics
3. short for TV-apparat or radioapparat: TV set or radio receiver

Declension

Derived terms

• (bureaucratic organization): partiapparat