Machine and Implement

machine

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

Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery.
Make by machinery.
- usage: "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"

(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

implement

Apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design.
- usage: "implement a procedure"
Ensure observance of laws and rules.
- usage: "Apply the rules to everyone";
- synonyms: enforce, apply
Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue.
- usage: "Did he go through with the treatment"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"
- synonyms: follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, put through, go through

(v.t.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
(n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; especially, an instrument, toll or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry or of war.
(v.t.) To accomplish; to fulfill.
(v.t.) To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary