Phrase Hound found 180 phrases and 12 compound words that contain machines. The most common are listed below. Open machines in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 180
- slot machinesplural of slot machine: Any machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:
- vending machinesplural of vending machine: An automatic machine that dispenses merchandise (often food or beverages) in return for payment (originally coins; now also often paper money, credit cards, and wirelessly via digital payment apps).
- fax machinesplural of fax machine: A device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.
- washing machinesplural of washing machine: A machine, usually automatic, that washes clothes, etc.
- voting machinesplural of voting machine: Any machine used in place of a paper ballot. In the model used in the US the voters mark their choice by switching levers and then pulling the master switch to reset the machine and place their vote.
- coffee machinesplural of coffee machine: Synonym of coffeemaker (kitchen coffee-brewing apparatus)
- sewing machinesplural of sewing machine: Any mechanical or electromechanical device used to stitch cloth or other material; normally uses two threads to form lock stitches.
- virtual machinesplural of virtual machine: A software emulation of a computer that runs in an isolated partition of a real computer.
- state machinesplural of state machine: Ellipsis of finite-state machine.
- poker machinesplural of poker machine: An electronic machine used to play games of chance for money, especially
- cash machinesplural of cash machine: A device that provides bank customers with cash withdrawal and other services without the need for a human teller.
- exercise machinesplural of exercise machine: Any of a great variety of devices, powered either by electricity or by the user, used to improve strength or physical fitness.
- ice machinesplural of ice machine: An icemaker.
- mean machinesplural of mean machine: A fast car.
- mind machinesplural of mind machine: A machine that generates rhythmic sound and/or light patterns to induce various mental states.
- paper machinesplural of paper machine: A machine used to manufacture paper.
- political machinesplural of political machine: A local political organization or individual politician that controls a large number of personal votes and can therefore exert political influence, and is therefore often viewed as scandalous.
- sex machinesplural of sex machine: Someone with considerable sexual prowess.
- simple machinesplural of simple machine: A device that only requires the application of a single force to work.
- time machinesplural of time machine: A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.
- X-machinesplural of X-machine: A theoretical computer that operates on some fundamental data type X. It is a structurally the same as a finite-state machine, but each transition represents the application of a relation of type X→X.
- snow machinesplural of snow machine: A machine that makes snow, such as a snowgun
- gaming machinesplural of gaming machine: A device such as a slot machine designed to play solitary gambling games.
- finite-state machinesplural of finite-state machine: A formalism for describing computation, consisting of a finite set of states and a transition function describing when to move from one state to another.
- ticket machinesplural of ticket machine: A machine that prints tickets automatically after the customer determines the destination and pays for it.
Compound words 12
- nanomachinesplural of nanomachine: Any mechanical device, manufactured using nanotechnology, having a scale measured in nanometres.
- micromachinesplural of micromachine: Any machine or similar device having a dimension of the order of a micrometre; used especially of integrated circuits
- biomachinesplural of biomachine: A biological organism, or group of organisms, that functions like, or is treated as, a machine
- infomachinesplural of infomachine: Clipped compound of information machine.
- megamachinesplural of megamachine: A very large or powerful machine (or computer).
- metamachinesplural of metamachine: In metacomputation, a computing machine that controls the running of another computing machine.
- mismachinesthird-person singular simple present indicative of mismachine: To machine incorrectly; to fail to shape perfectly.
- premachinesthird-person singular simple present indicative of premachine: To machine in advance.
- snowmachinesplural of snowmachine: A machine that makes snow, such as a snowgun
- submachinesplural of submachine: A machine forming part of a larger machine.