Article
(n.) A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics |
Article
(n.) A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia. |
Article
(n.) Subject |
Article
(n.) A distinct part. |
Article
(n.) A particular one of various things |
Article
(n.) Precise point of time |
Article
(n.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article. |
Article
(n.) One of the segments of an articulated appendage. |
Article
(n.) To formulate in articles |
Article
(n.) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles. |
Article
(n.) To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation |
Article
(v. i.) To agree by articles |
Burring machine
() A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. |
Cleaning
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clean |
Cleaning
(n.) The act of making clean. |
Cleaning
(n.) The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. |
Edge
(v. t.) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument |
Edge
(v. t.) Any sharp terminating border |
Edge
(v. t.) Sharpness |
Edge
(v. t.) The border or part adjacent to the line of division |
Edge
(v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon |
Edge
(v. t.) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. |
Edge
(v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border |
Edge
(v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively |
Edge
(v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise |
Edge
(v. i.) To move sideways |
Edge
(v. i.) To sail close to the wind. |
Feather-edge/
(n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. |
Feather-edge/
(n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor. |
Gilt-edge
(a.) Alt. of Gilt-edged |
Gramme machine
() A kind of dynamo-electric machine |
Knife-edge
(n.) A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. |
Machine
(n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc. |
Machine
(n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy |
Machine
(n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another. |
Machine
(n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use |
Machine
(n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. |
Machine
(n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. |
Machine
(v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery |
| article | one of a class of artifacts, an article of clothing |
cleaning
cleansing
cleanup | the act of making something clean, he gave his shoes a good cleaning |
| dry cleaning | the act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water |
adding machine
totalizer
totaliser | a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions |
addressing machine
Addressograph | a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing |
| answering machine | an electronic device that answers the telephone and records messages |
| article of commerce | an article that is offered for sale |
automatic rifle
automatic machine rifle | light machine gun |
| bathhouse bathing machine | a building containing dressing rooms for bathers |
breathing device
breathing apparatus
breathing machine
ventilator | a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure |
Browning machine gun
Peacemaker | a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than rounds per minute, used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War |
burp gun
machine pistol | a fully automatic pistol, a small submachine gun |
calculator
calculating machine | a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations |
car
auto
automobile
machine motorcar | a motor vehicle with four wheels, usually propelled by an internal combustion engine, he needs a car to get to work |
cash machine
cash dispenser
automated teller machine
automatic teller machine
automated teller
automatic teller
ATM | an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used |
cleaning implement
cleaning device
cleaning equipment | any of a large class of implements used for cleaning |
| cleaning pad | a pad used as a cleaning implement |
clothing
article of clothing
vesture
wear
wearable
habiliment | a covering designed to be worn on a person's body |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
deckle edge
deckle | rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper |
dialyzer
dialysis machine | a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes |
| diathermy machine | a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes |
dishwasher
dish washer
dishwashing machine | a machine for washing dishes |
| edge | a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object, he rounded the edges of the box |
| edge | the outside limit of an object or area or surface, a place farthest away from the center of something, the edge of the leaf is wavy, she sat on the edge of the bed, the water's edge |
| edge tool | any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) |
electrostatic generator
electrostatic machine
Wimshurst machine
Van de Graaff generator | electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity |
facsimile
facsimile machine
fax | duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio |
| farm machine | a machine used in farming |
fore edge
foredge | the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved, the part opposite the spine |
| franking machine | a machine that automatically stamps letters or packages passing through it and computes the total charge |
| fruit machine | a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials, certain combinations win money for the player |
furniture
piece of furniture
article of furniture | furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy, they had too much furniture for the small apartment, there was only one piece of furniture in the room |
| heart-lung machine | a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery, diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body |
hovercraft
ground-effect machine | a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines |
| ice machine | an electric refrigerator to supply ice cubes |
knife edge
cutting edge | the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife |
| knitting machine | a textile machine that makes knitted fabrics |
| leading edge | forward edge of an airfoil |
| light machine gun | a submachine gun not greater than . millimeter |
Linotype
Linotype machine | a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal |
lithograph
lithograph machine | duplicator that prints by lithography, a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern |
| machine | any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks |
| machine simple machine | a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point |
| machine bolt | a bolt with a square or hexagonal head on one end and a threaded shaft on the other end, tightened with a wrench, used to connect metal parts |
| machine gun | a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted) |
| machine screw | a screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole, slotted head can be driven by a screwdriver |
| machine shop | workshop where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools |
machine stitch
sewing-machine stitch | a sewing stitch made by a sewing machine, sometimes using more than one thread |
| machine tool | a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials |