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Definition of By machine
1. Adverb. With the use of a machine. "The shirt is sewn by machine"
Lexicographical Neighbors of By Machine
Literary usage of By machine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"The stitching of a man's hat by hand requires fifteen minutes ; by machine, one
minute. One girl can do the sewing by machine of as many boys' caps as ten ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"He invented, it may be said, government by machine. Bribery of members of Parliament
was already known, having been first practised on a large scale by the ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"He invented, it may be said, government by machine. Bribery of members of Parliament
was already known, having been first practised on a large scale by the ..."
4. Principles of Industrial Organization by Dexter Simpson Kimball (1919)
"Distribution by Machine Rate. The machine rate is a very old conception and, no
doubt, has its origin in an instinctive effort to equalize in some degree ..."
5. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"... two questions to be voted on by machine, and as to the other three they are
to be voted upon by ballot. Would not the consequence be that the voter who ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"A portion of the writing, also, on the copper plates, is engraved by machine (Becker's
patent), and the parks and sands are ruled by a machine with a steel ..."
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