machinery

«machinery» in Mova's school dictionary: Machines in general, especially large ones: farm… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (machinery — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Machines in general, especially large ones: farm machinery, heavy machinery. tree →

2) The moving parts of a machine. tree →

3) The system or organisation that makes something work: the machinery of government. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons «keep away from machinery» warns about danger on farms and building sites. In science and design, machinery shows how forces and moving parts do work. In formal or news language «the machinery of the law» means the system behind it.

examples

• The farm machinery is kept in the barn. tree →
• Never play near heavy machinery. tree →
• The noise of the machinery filled the factory. tree →
• Oil keeps the machinery running smoothly. tree →
• Children must not operate machinery. tree →
• Workers wear hard hats near the machinery. tree →
• The machinery of government moves slowly. tree →
• He says everything is done by machinery now; there must be some way of settling these dragons. tree →

note

Uncountable: «a lot of machinery», not «machineries»; for one, say «a machine» or «a piece of machinery». Stress: ma-SHEE-nuh-ree.

In the corpora

• Quarry water is very cold and deep and has hidden machinery and ledges, and people drown in it every summer.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «machinery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.