Vocabulary : Machinated to Machinist
Machinated : of MachinateMachinating : of Machinate
Machination : The act of machinating. ;; That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.
Machinator : One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
Machine : 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. ;; Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. ;; A person who acts mechanically or at will of another. ;; A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which th
