Grind
Machine
Machine noun - A device that changes energy into mechanical motion.
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Synonyms for Machine
Grind and machine are semantically related in drudge topic. Sometimes you can use "Grind" instead a noun "Machine", if it concerns topics such as person who acts automatically.
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- When something is posted that stands firmly on one side of a hot-button debate (political bickering being the huge one, followed closely by religion, with interpretations of Mind Screws running a close third), the editing machine will grind it back down or even kill it outright.
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Urban Legend of Zelda time: the early Asteroids arcade machine would apparently progressively slow down and grind to a halt if you collected enough lives, as the computer drew a little ship in the corner of the screen for each life you had, and would naturally take longer to draw more of them.
Source: Cap - Lazy Grind itself has finally been taken down, but it exists (somewhat) on the Wayback Machine.
Source: Schedule Slip / Web Comics
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