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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

• SEWING MACHINE (noun)

Sense 1

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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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