machinery

machines, machinerie

Machines utilisées ensemble pour effectuer un travail, notamment dans une usine ou une ferme.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : machines, equipment

Expressions courantes : heavy machinery, farm machinery, operate machinery

rouages, appareil

Ensemble des personnes, règles et méthodes qui font fonctionner une organisation ou un système.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : machinery of something (The machinery of government moved slowly.)

Synonymes : system, apparatus, organization

Expressions courantes : machinery of government, legal machinery, administrative machinery

mécanisme, machinerie

Ensemble des pièces à l’intérieur d’une machine qui bougent ou assurent son fonctionnement.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : mechanism, works

Expressions courantes : internal machinery, clock machinery, expose the machinery