Tham khảo tài liệu 'oxford collocations dictionary for students of english_ chương ', ngoại ngữ, anh văn giao tiếp phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Mm machine noun 1 piece of equipment adj. great huge large powerful I automatic electronic labour-saving I ingenious versatile sophisticated I reliable I defective I cash coffee exercise fax sewing telephone answering vending video washing kidney life-support The crash victim is now on a life-support machine. verb machine operate use work install We ve had a new washing machine installed. I start stop I plug in unplug I build make service design The machine is designed to fit under a counter. machine verb go work Have you got the machine working again breakdown run The machine runs on solar power. machine noun operator I parts tool machine tools for making weapons prep by The potatoes are planted by machine in a the Just put those clothes in the machine the washing machine on a the - I make my own dresses on my sewing machine. I - for a machine for making coffee phrases a make of machine What make of machine are they using 2 system organization adj. party political The independent candidates did not have the support of a party machine. I administrative government state propaganda publicity military war the president s propaganda machine phrases a cog in the machine figurative Tired of being a tiny cog in a vast machine he handed in his resignation. a well-oiled machine figurative The department ran like a well-oiled machine since the reorganization. machinery noun adj. heavy complex complicated elaborate sophisticated I electrical I agricultural construction farm industrial manufacturing office textile quant piece large and complex pieces of machinery verb machinery maintain service I install set up control drive operate renew replace update house The machinery is housed in a special building. machinery verb drive sth work sth I break down hum prep -for machinery for grinding wheat PHRASES the hum of machinery mad adj. 1 not sane crazy stupid verbs be look seem go He went mad and spent the rest of his life locked up in a mental hospital o The world had gone .