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SEWING MACHINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sewing machine mean?
• SEWING MACHINE (noun)
The noun SEWING MACHINE has 1 sense:
1. a textile machine used as a home appliance for sewing
Familiarity information: SEWING MACHINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A textile machine used as a home appliance for sewing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sewing machine" is a kind of...):
home appliance; household appliance (an appliance that does a particular job in the home)
textile machine (a machine for making textiles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sewing machine"):
serger (a sewing machine that overcasts the raw edges of a fabric with a V-shaped stitch)
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