| 单词 | machinery |
| 释义 | machinery (once / 255 pages) n Machinery refers to specific machines or machines in general. A farmer has lots of farm machinery, like tractors and plows. Machinery is also the inner workings of something — the machinery of a society is how a society works. You can refer to a group of machines as machinery, such as the machinery in a factory or the machinery in a laboratory. It’s also the inner workings of a particular machine, like the machinery that keeps your computer running. Machinery has to do with how something works or functions. The government, media, business, and family are all part of the machinery of society. The word machinery originally referred to the devices used for creating stage effects in the theater. WORD FAMILYmachinery: machineries+/machine: machined, machinelike, machinery, machines, machining, machinist/machinist: machinists USAGE EXAMPLESThe teacher who keeps all this machinery in good order is Catkin Flowers. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) One measure of the farm economy is equity — the amount of debt compared to assets like land and machinery. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) PLC machinery is used to control manufacturing machinery and to monitor and control oil and gas operations at well sites. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1n machines or machine systems collectively Hypo|Hyper enginery machinery consisting of engines collectively grinder, mill, milling machinerymachinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing cider millmill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider coffee grinder, coffee milla mill that grinds roasted coffee beans flour milla mill for grinding grain into flour gristmilla mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) meat grindera mill for grinding meat pepper grinder, pepper milla mill for grinding pepper querna primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand spicemilla mill for grinding spices tread-wheel, treadmill, treadwheela mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps water milla mill powered by a water wheel windmilla mill that is powered by the wind machine any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks 2n a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions the complex machinery of negotiation the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order Hyper scheme, system a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole |
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