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Where the effect is
chemical, or other than mechanical, the contrivance is usually
denominated an apparatus, not a machine; as, a bleaching
apparatus. Many large, powerful, or specially important pieces of
mechanism are called engines; as, a steam engine,
fire engine, graduating engine, etc. Although there is
no well-settled distinction between the terms engine and
machine among practical men, there is a tendency to restrict the
application of the former to contrivances in which the operating part
is not distinct from the motor.

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

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

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

The whole machine of government ought not to
bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and
oppressive.

Landor.

5. A political organization arranged and
controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan
ends.

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