Machine vs Widget - What's the difference?
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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.
A (placeholder name) for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
:Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 units per year...
Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user.
A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened.
A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and other smooth surfaces
(computing, graphical user interface) Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with.
As nouns the difference between machine and widget
is that machine is a device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect while widget is a placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.As a verb machine
is to make by machinery.machine
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)