Machine
noun
- 1.
- (an apparatus for applying mechanical power, having several parts each with a definite function, something operated by such apparatus, a vehicle, a person or organization regarded as acting like a machine) ប្រដាប់គ្រឿងយន្ដ, ម៉ាស៊ីន, បរិធាន (ប្រដាប់ផ្សេងៗ មានប្រដាប់សម្រាប់ថតរូបជាដើម), គ្រឿងយន្ដ, ស្វ័យប្រវត្តិ (ដែលប្រព្រឹត្ដទៅខ្លួនឯង)
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ម៉ាស៊ីន, ក្បាលម៉ាស៊ីន, ប្រព័ន្ធចាត់តាំង
- 3.
- (FIGURATIVE) ការចាត់ចែង, អង្គការ threshing machine ម៉ាស៊ីន, political machine អង្គការ
Example: Machines have replaced human labor in many industries.
adjective
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- (of machines made or done by machinery) ដែលធ្វើដោយម៉ាស៊ីន, ដែលដើរដោយម៉ាស៊ីន
verb — past tense: machined ; past participle: machined ; present participle: machining ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To make, shape, etc. by machinery. -machine gun an automatic gun firing a rapid stream of bullets. -machine gun to shoot at with a machine gun) ធ្វើដោយម៉ាស៊ីន, ដើរដោយម៉ាស៊ីន
Example: Sewing machine, printingmachine, etc., Surachai treats me like a machine, not a human being, Machineshop, etc.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
- 2.
- 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.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
- 3.
- A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
- 4.
- A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
- 5.
- A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
- 6.
- Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
verb — past tense: machined ; past participle: machined ; present participle: machining ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
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- appliance, automaton, contrivance, device, implement, instrument, movement, organization, robot