MACHINEとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈʃin/
• 韻: -iːn

名詞

machine (複数形 machines)

1. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     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.

2. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
   • 1914 July, F. Britten Austin, “The Air-Scout”, in The Strand Magazine, volume XLVIII, London: George Newnes, Ltd., page 568:

     As the aviator turned his machine to reconnoitre in the new direction, he was surprised to see the hostile aeroplane between him and his objective.

   • 1928, Franklin W. Dixon, The Missing Chums, Grosset & Dunlap, page 1:

     "Joe, how soon will you be ready to roll?" Frank Hardy burst into the garage where his brother was working on a sleek, black-and-silver motorcycle. "Right now, if this machine kicks over," Joe replied, putting down a wrench.

3. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

   I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.

4. (computing) A computer.

   Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.

   He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.

5. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

   Bruce Campbell was a "demon-killing machine" because he made quick work of killing demons.

   The government has become a money-making machine.

6. 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.
   • 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Rousseau and Malesherbes”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 719445219:

     The whole machine of government, civil and religious, ought never to bear upon the people with a weight so oppressive

7. (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
   • 1712 May 2, Joseph Addison, “MONDAY, April 21, 1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 351; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     I am apt to think, that the changing of the Trojan fleet into water-nymphs, which is the most violent machine in the whole Æneid{{..}}

8. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
   • 1902, The Friend

     A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket (as be かつ his clique of party bosses prepare it) should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party.

   • 2006, Jerry F. Hough, Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-blue State Alignment, Algora Publishing →ISBN, page 37

     In essence, therefore, the right-fork strategy of the Democrats meant an alliance of the South with the political machines built on the non-Protestant immigrants in key Northeastern states.

   • 2013, Paul M. Green, Melvin G. Holli, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, fourth edition, SIU Press →ISBN, page 126

     He was thrust into a political maelstrom for which he was ill-prepared, and yet he was, most notably, the Chicago machine's political savior.

9. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352, page 107:

     He now reſumes his attempts in more form: firſt he put one of the pillows under me, to give the blank of his aim a more favourable elevation, and another under my head, in eaſe of it: then ſpreading my thighs, and placing himſelf ſtanding between them, made them reſt upon his hips: applying then the point of his machine to the ſlit, into which he ſought entrance;

10. (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
11. (obsolete) A bathing machine.
    • 1823, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 512:

      One Machine only was provided for Bathers, the Limitted smoothness of the sands not extending widely enough to admit another.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:machine

下位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Tok Pisin: masin
• → Hindustani: मशीन (maśīn) / مشین‎ (maśīn)
• → Irish: meaisín
• → Japanese: マシン (mashin)
• → Maori: mīhini
• → Swahili: mashine

参照

• machine on Wikipedia.

動詞

machine (三人称単数 現在形 machines, 現在分詞 machining, 過去形および過去分詞形 machined)

1. to make by machinery.
2. to shape or finish by machinery.

派生語

• machinist

Further reading

• machine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• machine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

アナグラム

• Eichman