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Industrious vs Machinery - What's the difference?

industrious | machinery |

As an adjective industrious

is hard-working and persistent; worksome.

As a noun machinery is

the machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.

industrious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hard-working and persistent; worksome.
  • I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.

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    Derived terms

    * industriousness

    machinery

    English

    Noun

  • The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
  • The working parts of a machine as a group.
  • The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
  • (figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect