The result sometimes feels less like a machine than like an organic whole, a huge, thick-skulled, powerful animal moving with equal menace and grace through its element.
In the short term, the stock market behaves like a voting machine, but in the long term it acts like a weighing machine (i.e. its true value will in the long run be reflected in its stock price).
From the outside, the device looks a little like a vending machine with a really cool touchscreen and no windows.
Its process was always audible, but now it was running like a washing machine with a handful of rocks thrown in -- a rather unsettling experience.
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Ms. McNally said her book machine occasionally jams, much like a copy machine, but her staff has become adept at maintaining it, by vacuuming and cleaning it with alcohol, so disruptions have become infrequent.
"In the ultimate sense, we are looking for something that is autonomous like a biological machine, " Gracias says.
But honestly, the Magimix does seem like a superior machine to most of the more common department store brands.
But Bush's eyes looked like a slot machine that had just hit BAR-APPLE-LEMON.
Even though there is no central mechanism dictating who will call who when, the network functions like a vast machine.
The program would basically pretend to run like a Windows machine.
Meanwhile, a firm like Microsoft, which grew up in the computer industry, can use the same fusion of technology to enter the consumer-electronics market with a PC which looks like a games machine.
Kasparov talked about the game more like a poet than a calculating machine.
Boies argues that Napster technology is essentially like a VCR or photocopy machine -- a tool that may be used to pirate copyrighted material but is not inherently illegal.
"It was like stepping into a time machine, everything was like out of the 1950s, including the music you heard and the hair styles of the stewardesses on the plane, " he said.
There was a white machine, like a fat pup with a trunk, moving very slowly along the bottom.
Like a loose slot machine, the infinite scroll gives users fast access to variable rewards.
Bureaucratic systems and processes were put in place to make the system tick over like a boring clockwork machine.
It looked like a giant washing machine in front of my apartment.
Because a new tablet hardwired with 20, 000 instantly streaming shows, on-demand television, music and movies, a massive e-book marketplace and a history of buyer confidence looks like a very formidable machine.
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It's possible, we guess, though such a tablet would be counter to the arguments made at the iPad launch where Jobs and Co praised the device for being purpose-built to excel at specific tasks -- TechCrunch's device sounds like a general purpose machine.
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Brown's classic singles include "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, " "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, " "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud, " a landmark 1968 statement of racial pride.
But the problem with these innovative expensive sets is that the director wants to get all he can out of it, and the whole opera turns out to be something like a variation on a theme of The Machine.
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With two piston-like windows on its eastern flank, this building looks a lot like a giant garment worker's sewing machine -- an appropriate image for a company such as Wacoal.
The repeater is a like a high-voltage machine gun, for example, but with different upgrades and ammo.
"In retail, it's not like you can get a machine to replace someone on the floor, " he says.
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In some fields, it is direct and obvious, like operating a tool or machine or creating something physical.
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