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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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tools

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /tu?lz/

Noun

tools

  1. plural of tool

Verb

tools

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

Anagrams

  • loots, lotos, sloot, sotol, stool, tosol

Dutch

Noun

tools

  1. plural of tool

tools From the web:

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  • what tools do geographers use
  • what tools do archaeologists use
  • what tools do meteorologists use
  • what tools did the mesopotamians use for writing
  • what tools are used to measure mass
  • what tools are used to measure volume
  • what tools did the paleolithic use
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