Noun

(en noun)

A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().

A mobile phone ().

Something that can move.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

* Landor

The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

(Addison)

(euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.

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