Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Apparatus
(pl. ) of Apparatus |
Apparatus
(n.) Things provided as means to some end. |
Apparatus
(n.) Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative |
Apparatus
(n.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function |
Bending
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bend |
Bending
(n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. |
Buffing apparatus
() See Buffer, 1. |
Burring machine
() A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. |
Dove plant
() A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove |
Flax-plant
(n.) A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. |
Gramme machine
() A kind of dynamo-electric machine |
Ice plant
() A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic |
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 |
Plant
(n.) A vegetable |
Plant
(n.) A bush, or young tree |
Plant
(n.) The sole of the foot. |
Plant
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business |
Plant
(n.) A plan |
Plant
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. |
Plant
(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. |
Plant
(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth |
Plant
(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. |
Plant
(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants |
Plant
(n.) To engender |
Plant
(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population |
Plant
(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of |
Plant
(n.) To set firmly |
Plant
(n.) To set up |
Plant
(v. i.) To perform the act of planting. |
Plant-cane
(n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon. |
Plant-eating
(a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants |
Water plant
() A plant that grows in water |
Wind-plant
(n.) A windflower. |
plant
flora
plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
| bending | the act of bending something |
| plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
leaf bug
plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug
four-lined leaf bug
Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
tarnished plant bug
Lygus lineolaris | widespread plant and fruit pest |
plant louse
louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
woolly aphid
woolly plant louse | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
jumping plant louse
psylla
psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
plant hopper
planthopper | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants |
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 |
apparatus
setup | equipment designed to serve a specific function |
| assembly plant | a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product |
automatic rifle
automatic machine rifle | light machine gun |
| bathhouse bathing machine | a building containing dressing rooms for bathers |
| bottling plant | a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps |
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 |
| chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
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 |
| electrical system electrical plant | utility that provides electricity |
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 |
factory
mill manufacturing plant
manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
| farm machine | a machine used in farming |
| 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 |
gymnastic apparatus
exerciser | sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises |
| 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 |
heating system
heating plant
heating
heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
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 |
| Kipp's apparatus | a laboratory apparatus for producing a gas (usually hydrogen sulfide) by the action of a liquid on a solid without heating |
| knitting machine | a textile machine that makes knitted fabrics |
| 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 |