machine running

collocation in English

meaningsofmachineandrunning

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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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running
adjective[after noun]
uk
/ˈrʌn.ɪŋ/us
/ˈrʌn.ɪŋ/
happening on a particular number of ...
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(Definition ofmachineandrunningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With low wages we cannot keep themachinerunning.
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You cannot have amachinerunninginto hundreds of thousands of pounds introduced merely to use it on one or two days of the year.
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There is a temptation to get amachinerunningsmoothly, and to leave it undisturbed.
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Staff policy is amachinerunningout of control.
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I am here to say that there must inevitably be a period of difficulty before we get themachinerunningsmoothly on the new road.
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What happens to that right when copies can be made by amachinerunningoff a thousand at a time?
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We do not need a complicated and costly administrativemachinerunningthe whole year in order to do that.
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The balance, of course, can be arrived at in various ways, it may be by that particularmachinerunninglonger hours and the operative working overtime.
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For example, a 2-polemachinerunningat 3600 rpm and a 12-polemachinerunningat 600 rpm produce the same frequency.
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These disadvantages tend to imply that most long term owners are at least mechanically competent and moreover somewhat idiosyncratic in their determination to keep this type ofmachinerunning.
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Performance is also reduced by the simple fact that themachinerunningthe server is also generating an output image.
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The main objective is to keep themachinerunningnormally with minimal noise.
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The exact value depends entirely on themachinerunningthe algorithm.
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Both of these implementations use threads, so they make optimum use of all the processors on themachinerunningthe application.
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The station was semi-automated between midnight and six in the morning playing back pre-recorded music from a simple reel-to-reel loggermachinerunningat 3/32 inches per second.
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In machine darning, lines ofmachinerunningstitch are run back and forth across the hole, then the fabric is rotated and more lines run at right angles.
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