Apparatus vs. Machine

An appliance or device for a particular purpose

A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that redirects mechanical energy to accomplish a particular task or set of tasks.

An integrated group of materials or devices used for a particular purpose

See simple machine.

The totality of means by which a designated function is performed or a specific task executed, as in a system of government.

See compound machine.

A political organization or an underground political movement. Also called apparat.

A system or device for doing work, as an automobile or jackhammer, together with its power source and auxiliary equipment.

(Physiology) A group or system of organs that collectively perform a specific function or process

A system or device, such as a computer, that performs or assists in the performance of a human task

The critical and source material, usually including notes and a glossary, that accompanies a scholarly edition of a text.

An intricate natural system or organism, such as the human body.

The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.

A person who acts in a rigid, mechanical, or unconscious manner.

A complex machine or instrument.

An organized group of people whose members are or appear to be under the control of one or more leaders

(collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.

A device used to produce a stage effect, especially a mechanical means of lowering an actor onto the stage.

A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.

A literary device used to produce an effect, especially the introduction of a supernatural being to resolve a plot.

(firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.

An answering machine

(gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.

Of, relating to, or felt to resemble a machine

(video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”

To cut, shape, or finish by machine.

Things provided as means to some end.

To be cut, shaped, or finished by machine

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.

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

(dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

Equipment designed to serve a specific function

An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function;

(computing) A computer.

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

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.

(poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.

Penis.

(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.

(obsolete) A bathing machine.

To make by machinery.

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

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.

Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another.

A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

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.

Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks

An intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently;

An efficient person;

4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine;

A group that controls the activities of a political party;

A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point

Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery

Make by machinery;