Synonyms of the word

machinery

• n. The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
• n. The working parts of a machine as a group.
• n. The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
• n. (figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect.

machine

• n. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a…
• n. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
• n. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
• n. (computing) A computer.
• n. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient,…
• n. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting…
• n. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
• n. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially…
• n. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
• v. to make by machinery.
• v. to shape or finish by machinery.

scheme

• n. A systematic plan of future action.
• n. A plot or secret, devious plan.
• n. An orderly combination of related parts.
• n. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
• n. (mathematics) A type of topological space.
• n. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
• n. (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
• n. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
• v. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.

system

• n. A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
• n. A method or way of organizing or planning.
• n. (derogatory, with "the") The mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or…