A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect. / (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

To make by machinery. / To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.

(translation studies) The act of translating something from one language to another by means of a machine, especially a computer.

A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes. / The act of machinating or plotting.

(chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.

(historical) A small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, made famous by Germany in WWII.

(informal) Tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily and histrionically tough.

A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado. / The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).

(computing theory) Ellipsis of finite-state machine.. / (Marxism) The state machinery; state apparatus.

A facility that has machine tools for working with metals or other relatively hard materials, such as some polymers. Various kinds of machine shops make and repair all types of metal objects, from machine tools, dies, and molds to mass-produced parts such as screws, pistons, or gears.