Vehicle vs Machine - What's the difference?
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A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.
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A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint. (FM 55-501).
An entity to achieve an end.
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, title= (Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
(Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits
A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
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(archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.
(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
(computing) A computer.
(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
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Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
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to make by machinery.
to shape or finish by machinery.
As nouns the difference between vehicle and machine
is that vehicle is a conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals while machine is a device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.As a verb machine is
to make by machinery.vehicle
English
(wikipedia vehicle)Noun
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Synonyms
* (Hinduism) vahanHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* long vehicle * in-vehicle * vehicularExternal links
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English
(wikipedia machine)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine . Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.
- (Addison)