machinery

maquinaria

Máquinas que se usan conjuntamente para trabajar, especialmente en una fábrica o una explotación agrícola.

En inglés sencillo: Machines used together to do work, especially in a factory or on a farm.

• The factory needs new machinery.
• Workers repaired the heavy machinery yesterday.
• Do not operate machinery when you feel sleepy.

Sinónimos: machines, equipment

Expresiones frecuentes: heavy machinery, farm machinery, operate machinery

aparato, mecanismo

Conjunto de personas, normas y procedimientos que permiten funcionar a una organización o sistema.

En inglés sencillo: The people, rules, and processes that make an organization or system work.

• The legal machinery began to operate.
• She understood the machinery of local government.
• The party's machinery helped organize the campaign.

Cómo se usa: machinery of something (The machinery of government moved slowly.)

Sinónimos: system, apparatus, organization

Expresiones frecuentes: machinery of government, legal machinery, administrative machinery

mecanismo, maquinaria

Conjunto de piezas que se mueven o hacen funcionar una máquina desde su interior.

En inglés sencillo: The moving or working parts inside a machine, considered together.

• The machinery inside the clock stopped.
• He removed the cover to examine the machinery.
• Dust had damaged the tiny machinery within the toy.

Sinónimos: mechanism, works

Expresiones frecuentes: internal machinery, clock machinery, expose the machinery