Antonyms for machinery
məˈʃi nə rima·chin·e·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

1. machinerynoun

   machines or machine systems collectively

2. machinerynoun

   a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions

   "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"

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1. Gavin Parry:

   Japan's market is so liquid and has been so well conditioned to handle bad news since QQE first began that, in a way, bad news is good news sometimes, we're also seeing some positive reaction in machinery and construction to supply-side priming coming out of China, and the auto sector is getting a boost after China auto sales came out positive yesterday.

2. George Bernard Shaw:

   In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

3. David Gruber:

   Similar to how antifreeze in your car keeps the water in your radiator from freezing in cold temperatures, some animals have evolved amazing machinery that prevent them from freezing, such as antifreeze proteins, which prevent ice crystals from forming, we already knew that this tiny snailfish, which lives in extremely cold waters, produced antifreeze proteins, but we didn't realize just how chock-full of those proteins it is -- and the amount of effort it was putting into making these proteins.

4. Andy Warhol:

   I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

5. Hannah Arendt:

   Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

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