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handler
noun
One who trains or exhibits animals.
synonyms:
animal trainer
An agent who handles something or someone.
usage:
"the senator's campaign handlers"
Sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team. (.
synonyms:
coach
,
manager
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
machine
noun
Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks.
An efficient person.
usage:
"the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"
An intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently.
usage:
"the war machine"
A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point.
synonyms:
simple machine
A group that controls the activities of a political party.
usage:
"he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"
synonyms:
political machine
A motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.
usage:
"he needs a car to get to work"
synonyms:
car
,
auto
,
automobile
,
motorcar
verb
Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery.
Make by machinery.
usage:
"The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) A
combination
of persons acting
together
for a common purpose, with the
agencies
which they use; as, the social machine.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A
person
who acts mechanically or at
will
of
another
.
(n.) Any mechanical
contrivance
, as the wooden horse with which the
Greeks
entered Troy; a
coach
; a
bicycle
.
(n.) A political
organization
arranged and
controlled
by one or more leaders for
selfish
,
private
or partisan ends.
(n.) Supernatural agency in a
poem
or a superhuman being
introduced
to perform some exploit.
(v.t.) To
subject
to the
action
of
machinery
; to
effect
by aid of
machinery
; to
print
with a printing machine.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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