Apparatus vs. Machine

Apparatus and Machine Definitions
Apparatus
An appliance or device for a particular purpose
An x-ray apparatus.
Machine
A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that redirects mechanical energy to accomplish a particular task or set of tasks.
Apparatus
An integrated group of materials or devices used for a particular purpose
Dental apparatus.
Machine
See simple machine.
Apparatus
The totality of means by which a designated function is performed or a specific task executed, as in a system of government.
Machine
See compound machine.
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Apparatus
A political organization or an underground political movement. Also called apparat.
Machine
A system or device for doing work, as an automobile or jackhammer, together with its power source and auxiliary equipment.
Apparatus
(Physiology) A group or system of organs that collectively perform a specific function or process
The respiratory apparatus.
The digestive apparatus.
Machine
A system or device, such as a computer, that performs or assists in the performance of a human task
The machine is down.
Apparatus
The critical and source material, usually including notes and a glossary, that accompanies a scholarly edition of a text.
Machine
An intricate natural system or organism, such as the human body.
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Apparatus
The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
Machine
A person who acts in a rigid, mechanical, or unconscious manner.
Apparatus
A complex machine or instrument.
Machine
An organized group of people whose members are or appear to be under the control of one or more leaders
A political machine.
Apparatus
(collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.
Machine
A device used to produce a stage effect, especially a mechanical means of lowering an actor onto the stage.
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Apparatus
A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
Machine
A literary device used to produce an effect, especially the introduction of a supernatural being to resolve a plot.
Apparatus
(firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
Machine
An answering machine
Leave a message on my machine if I'm not home.
Apparatus
(gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
Machine
Of, relating to, or felt to resemble a machine
Machine repairs.
Machine politics.
Apparatus
(video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
Machine
To cut, shape, or finish by machine.
Apparatus
Things provided as means to some end.
Machine
To be cut, shaped, or finished by machine
This metal machines easily.
Apparatus
Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.
Machine
A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
Apparatus
A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.
Machine
(dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
Apparatus
Equipment designed to serve a specific function
Machine
An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.
Apparatus
(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function;
The breathing apparatus
Machine
(computing) A computer.
Game developers assume they're pushing the limits of the machine.
He refuses to turn off his Linux machine.
Machine
(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.
Machine
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.
Machine
(poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
Machine
The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
Machine
Penis.
Machine
(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.
Machine
(obsolete) A bathing machine.
Machine
To make by machinery.
Machine
To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.
Machine
In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
Machine
Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
Machine
A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another.
Machine
A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.
Machine
A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine.
Machine
Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
Machine
To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Machine
Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
Machine
An intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently;
The war machine
Machine
An efficient person;
The boxer was a magnificent fighting machine
Machine
4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine;
He needs a car to get to work
Machine
A group that controls the activities of a political party;
He was endorsed by the Democratic machine
Machine
A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
Machine
Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery
Machine
Make by machinery;
The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars