See machinery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.",
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"text": "One or two wondered then, as if suddenly recalling the outlander, how he would manage, or if he would perish, up there among his unholy modern machineries that puffed out frozen steam to store the deer meat and shot fowl for him, […] \"And there were big boxes lugged up there, done up in iron clasps. Cruel-cold earth in those.\" […] \"Like corpse boxes,\" someone else suggested, down in the half-light, snug fust of the village drinking shop.",
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"text": "Since the three histone-fold domain amino acids are located at the surface of the α-helix 2 domain that is responsible for the formation of H3-H4 dimers and accessible in prenucleosomal complexes, it has been suggested that the specificity associated with these amino acid positions derives from interactions with different assembly or post-translational-modification machineries.",
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"sense": "machines constituting a production apparatus",
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"sense": "machines constituting a production apparatus",
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"word": "maquinaria"
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"sense": "machines constituting a production apparatus",
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"sense": "machines constituting a production apparatus",
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"sense": "working parts of a machine as a group",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "collective parts of something which allow it to function",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "collective parts of something which allow it to function",
"tags": [
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"word": "mécanique"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "collective parts of something which allow it to function",
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"word": "Maschinerie"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "collective parts of something which allow it to function",
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"word": "ម៉ាស៊ីន"
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