machine-made
adjective
PRODUCTIONukusmade by amachineratherthan byhand:
All therugsare machine-made.
Theproductionof machine-madelacemeantthat the lacemakingindustrywent intodecline.
| 单词 | machine-made |
| 释义 | machine-made adjective PRODUCTIONukusmade by amachineratherthan byhand: All therugsare machine-made. Theproductionof machine-madelacemeantthat the lacemakingindustrywent intodecline. Examplesofmachine-mademachine-made As industrial technology putmachine-madelace, steel cage crinolines, and silk dresses within the reach of an increasing number of female consumers, elegant simplicity became a hallmark of the elite. From theCambridge English Corpus There is something distinctive about a piece of homespun which appeals strongly to one's fancy, and invests it with an individuality quite different frommachine-madecloth. From theCambridge English Corpus It seemed to me to be amachine-madeanswer, with very little if any relevance to the case we are now considering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 To-day, people buymachine-madeproducts that are not produced by the skill of the worker. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 By the look of it you would think it wasmachine-made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Eithermachine-madeor hand-made shoes were accepted, and there is no record as to the proportion of each. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The 600,000machine-madesand-faced bricks used for the facing also acted as shuttering to the concrete backing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are advertising and pushing theirmachine-madechains. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 While machines should not be used to imitate a hand-made article, that does not mean that amachine-madearticle cannot be most admirably designed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They consisted of regimented repetitions ofmachine-madematerials and were the rock-bottom of architectural practice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The competition ofmachine-madegoods with hand-loom industry impoverishes the village weaver, or converts him into a mill hand and drives him into a town. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole point in thismachine-madehouse is that it is factory made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I want to see less of themachine-madefilm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole idea of having amachine-madesnooper sitting in the cab beside him is to a driver complete and utter anathema. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We must cherish the hope of taking the nations out of the rut ofmachine-madehaggling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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