powerful machine

collocation in English

meaningsofpowerfulandmachine

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powerful
adjective
uk
/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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machine
noun[C]
uk
/məˈʃiːn/us
/məˈʃiːn/
a piece of equipment with several moving parts that uses power to do a particular type ...
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(Definition ofpowerfulandmachinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As both a barrier and a sign, the hedge was apowerfulmachineof enclosure.
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Have we not produced a greatpowerfulmachine, which is world-wide in its ramifications, to produce everything that mankind requires in superabundance?
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The combination of youth, inexperience andpowerfulmachineappears to be the most decisive cause of accidents.
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There is no political problem upon which they cannot use this extraordinarilypowerfulmachinewhich they have created.
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That machine 50 years ago was apowerfulmachineof a political party.
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Here we have a great new, glittering,powerfulmachine, but we have no petrol, or at any rate, we have only £50,000 worth of petrol to make it go.
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It seeks to establish a gradual progression from the lesspowerfulmachineto the more powerful, so that in practice the progression might work out something as follows.
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These trends worked together so that as the 1990s closed the modern chopper was larger looking, morepowerfulmachine.
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The 8/32 was a morepowerfulmachinethan the 7/32, with the notable feature of allowing user-programmable microcode to be employed.
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Such an environment could, of course, be provided by suitable software running on a sufficientlypowerfulmachine.
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The altarpiece resembles apowerfulmachine, built with concentric archivolts, classical spiral columns (pseudo salomonic), platforms and throne.
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Due to the size of the adult horse's abdomen, it requires apowerfulmachinethat is not available to all practitioners.
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In anticipation of the 2002 model, one reporter reminisced that the original was apowerfulmachine, if a bit heavy.
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The original development team estimated the 2600 had a lifespan of about three years, and decided to build the mostpowerfulmachinethey could, given that time frame.
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Overnight into this first-class residential quarter they moved powerful machines, with a shocking effect on the street, as anybody who knows that area will appreciate.
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I gave £7 as the top of the range for powerful machines with a driver of 25 or over.
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First, it restricts learner drivers to less powerful machines.
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