Sewing Definition–noun | 1. | the act or work of one who sews. | | 2. | something sewn or to be sewn. | |
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Machine Definition–noun | 1. | an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine. | | 2. | a mechanical apparatus or contrivance; mechanism. | | 3. | Mechanics. | a. | a device that transmits or modifies force or motion. | | b. | Also called simple machine. any of six or more elementary mechanisms, as the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, wedge, and inclined plane. | | | 4. | Older Use. | a. | an automobile or airplane. | | | 5. | a bicycle or motorcycle. | | 6. | a vending machine: a cigarette machine. | | 7. | any complex agency or operating system: the machine of government. | | 8. | an organized group of persons that conducts or controls the activities of a political party or organization:
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He heads the Democratic machine in our city. | | 9. | a person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner: Routine work had turned her into a machine. | | 10. | any of various contrivances, esp. those formerly used in theater, for producing stage effects | | 11. | some agency, personage, incident or other feature introduced for effect into a literary composition. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to make, prepare, or finish with a machine or with machine tools. | |
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