Machinery
Definition of machinery:
part of speech: noun
Machines in general; parts of a machine.
part of speech: noun
Machines in general: the parts of a machine: means for keeping in action: supernatural agency in a poem.
part of speech: noun
Engines and other appliances collectively, or the parts of them; any means by which something is kept in action or the result desired is obtained.
Usage examples for machinery:
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I find machinery almost as interesting as the piano.
"The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine", Katherine Stokes. -
Things have come to such a pass that it is largely a matter of machinery
"Every Man for Himself", Hopkins Moorhouse. -
What do I know about machinery
"King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays", Floyd Dell. -
From the fact that men worked more in solitary, quiet places, as contrasted with factories, having heavy machinery men used to whistle.
"Revisiting the Earth", James Langdon Hill.