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machinery

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

machinery From the web:

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instruments

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??nst??m?nts/, /??nst??m?nts/
  • Hyphenation: in?stru?ments

Noun

instruments

  1. plural of instrument

Verb

instruments

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of instrument

Catalan

Noun

instruments

  1. plural of instrument

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??s.t?y.m??/

Noun

instruments m

  1. plural of instrument

Latvian

Noun

instruments m (1st declension)

  1. instrument

Declension

Further reading

  • instruments at tezaurs.lv

Middle English

Noun

instruments

  1. Alternative form of instrumentes

Swedish

Noun

instruments

  1. indefinite genitive singular of instrument
  2. indefinite genitive plural of instrument

instruments From the web:

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  • what instruments are in the woodwind family
  • what instruments are in an orchestra
  • what instruments are in the percussion family
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