Index of English words, starting with "ma"

(1) - Machinery (n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.
(2) - Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.
(3) - Machinery (n.) The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
(4) - Machinery (n.) Machines, in general, or collectively.

(1) - Machinist (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
(2) - Machinist (n.) One skilled in the use of machine tools.
(3) - Machinist (n.) A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.