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 |