1 [U] machines as a group, especially large ones:
agricultural / industrial machinery * a piece of machinery
2 [U] the parts of a machine that make it work:
a clock with all its machinery hanging out
3 [U,sing.] ~ (of sth)
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of machinery come from?
This entry for machinery is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is machinery a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, machinery is tagged as noun.
Does machinery appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — machinery appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.