Other forms: machines
A machine is a device with moving parts that does work for you. A washing machine, run the machine, machine parts.
In physics the simple machines are six — lever, wheel, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and screw — and every complicated one is built from them. A political machine is an organisation that delivers votes, and to do something like a machine is to do it tirelessly.
1nounmachineA device with moving parts that does work for you.
“Put your dirty clothes in the washing machine before you go to bed.”
machine is a device.
Latin machina meant a device or contrivance, from a Greek word for a means or expedient. Mechanic is a relative.
Middle French
machine
English, today
machine
Borrowed from Middle French machine. Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from grc-dor μᾱχᾰνᾱ́, cognate with grc-att μηχᾰνή (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA