Barker's mill
() A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis. |
Burring machine
() A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. |
Craze-mill
(n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill |
Crazing-mill
(n.) A mill for grinding tin ore. |
Gramme machine
() A kind of dynamo-electric machine |
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 |
Mill
(n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
Mill
(n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces |
Mill
(n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process |
Mill
(n.) A machine for grinding and polishing |
Mill
(n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action |
Mill
(n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on |
Mill
(n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
Mill
(n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
Mill
(n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
Mill
(n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
Mill
(n.) A pugilistic. |
Mill
(n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill |
Mill
(n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine |
Mill
(n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head |
Mill
(n.) To pass through a fulling mill |
Mill
(n.) To beat with the fists. |
Mill
(n.) To roll into bars, as steel. |
Mill
(v. i.) To swim under water |
Mill-cake
(n.) The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. |
Mill-sixpence
(n.) A milled sixpence |
Pellet
(n.) A little ball |
Pellet
(n.) A bullet |
Pellet
(v./.) To form into small balls. |
Tilt-mill
(n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on. |
Walk-mill
(n.) A fulling mill. |
Water mill
() A mill whose machinery is moved by water |
grind
mill
pulverization
pulverisation | the act of grinding to a powder or dust |
gizzard
ventriculus
gastric mill | thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food |
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 |
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 |
| cider mill | mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider |
coffee mill
coffee grinder | a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
| cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
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 |
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 |
| flour mill | a mill for grinding grain into flour |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
magneto
magnetoelectric machine | a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine |
| microwave diathermy machine | diathermy machine that uses microwave radiation as the source of heat |
| milking machine | machine consisting of a suction apparatus for milking cows mechanically |
mill
grinder milling machinery | machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing |
miller
milling machine | machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it |
millwheel
mill wheel | water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill |
mimeograph
mimeo
mimeograph machine
Roneo
Roneograph | a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo) |
mincer
mincing machine | a kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces |