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machinery (iou)



machinery noun. L17.
[from MACHINE noun + -ERY.]
The assemblage of contrivances employed for effect in literary work; supernatural personages and incidents, or other contrivances for effect, introduced in a narrative. L17.
Hannah More Those who..deny the immortality of the soul..introduce the machinery of ghosts. Aldous Huxley Entangled in a novel I can't quite find a satisfactory machinery for.
Machines, or the constituent parts of a machine, taken collectively; the mechanism of a machine or machines. Freq. transf. & fig., functional equipment; means or procedures available for action (foll. by for, of). M18.
Ld Macaulay The whole machinery of government was out of joint. J. W. Krutch Nuclear weapons and all the machinery of war. Guardian The machinery for salary-fixing in the universities is complicated. H. Wilson The industries producing plant and machinery cannot meet the orders. J. Gardam Then away went the horses and in came the machinery. Scientific American The most central molecular machinery of modern organisms.
A system or kind of machinery. M19.
E. M. Forster All these tubes and buttons and machineries.