machine.
machine, device
Meaning & usage
machine, device
machine (combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use)
la machine bureaucratique
engine
faire machine arrière
machine à vapeur
machine (a person who is very efficient)
Ce type, c'est une vraie machine!
car
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French machine, borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), itself a borrowing from Doric Ancient Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́). Not to be confused with machin, which means "thing".
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