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machine in English:

1. machine machine


This machine generates electricity.
Charles Moore created Forth in an attempt to increase programmer productivity without sacrificing machine efficiency.
A family should not spend all of its money to keep someone alive on a machine.
What a waste to buy such an expensive machine even though he doesn't even know how to use computers.
He went back to the drug store, located the machine, poured in the sample and deposited the $10.00.
I don't have a washing machine at home, and so I have to go to the washing room in order to do the laundry.
OK. I'll send it out as soon as a machine is available.
We had the the procedures done yesterday but unfortunately, the machine won't be in operation until the engine is replaced.
The machine again made the usual noise and printed out the following analysis.
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
I wanted to know what our general stance is on adding machine translations?
Tim's uncle was a machine gunner on a helicopter in Vietnam.
When I put 100 yen in and pressed the button to buy a coffee at the vending machine, four cans dropped down all at once!
Imagine how life was before people had flying machines to travel anywhere in the world.
I would like to order one coffee machine (Model 25-A) and have enclosed your order form.

2. device device


Tom doesn't want an iPad. He wants a portable device that supports Flash.
a modern device
The state of the art is the highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field, achieved at a particular time.
A device implanted in the spinal cord, dubbed the Orgasmotron, allows female patients to experience orgasm with the flick of a remote control.
It would be difficult to improve the device when there is no effective catalyst.
The management wishes to inform guests that the television has been fitted with an anti-theft device.
She wanted her company to develop a wearable device to diagnose and treat every illnes.
I found this odd-looking device in an antique shop. What do you make of it?
A display, aka monitor, is an appliance that displays video signal of still images and moving pictures produced by a computer or similar device.
Savant-powered iTouch devices (iPads, iPhones or iPods)
Rob and Finn discuss the risks posed by this new device which many smokers are using in order to cut down on smoking?
You have to turn off devices, like mobile phones, in the classroom.
Rescuers used a special device for finding people trapped in collapsed buildings.
Good writers only use cohesive devices (linking words) when they have to.
Since the arrival of mobile devices and the wireless Internet, our media habits have changed completely.

English word "machine"(device) occurs in sets:

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