machine-made


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machine-made

adj
(Mechanical Engineering) made or constructed by machine
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Adj.1.machine-made - made by machinemachine-made - made by machine      
hand-crafted, handmade - made by hand or a hand process; "delicate handmade baby dresses"
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machine-made

[məˈʃiːnmeɪd] ADJhecho a máquina
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His machine-made storiettes, though he hated them and derided them, were successful.
Then, one day, came back to him through the mail ten of his immaculate machine-made storiettes.
Only a solitary cracked-voice reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn.
The abstract, the typical, the general--these were everywhere exalted at the expense of the image, the specific experience, the vital fact.' Lowell declares that it 'ignored the imagination altogether and sent Nature about her business as an impertinent baggage whose household loom competed unlawfully with the machine-made fabrics, so exquisitely uniform in pattern, of the royal manufactories.' Still more hostile is Matthew Arnold: 'The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: Their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
Of course I know that the proceedings of the best machine-made humanity are employed with judicious care and so on.
The latest designs feature an overdyed and distressed appearance to create looks not typically seen in traditional machine-made rugs.
Among the big news here was the introduction of the company's machine-made line.
Though often seen as such, Gabo's constructions are not simply triumphs of technology (a very personal technology, by the way; for all the appearance of machine-made precision, the artist threaded his wire by hand) but are also intensely expressive.
Several areas, such as handtufted and machine-made designs, performed well for 2013, manufacturers said.
COURISTAN adds new designs and colors schemes to existing hand- and machine-made collections including the Aristocrat Collection, the Kashimar Collection and the Oasis Collection...
When Rosemarie Trockel began showing in New York in the late '80s, her best-known work - machine-made woolen pieces presented as "paintings" and minimalist cubes with stove-top burners - seemed to categorize her as interested in the female domestic realm.
"By adding a mass market approach we can service all segments of the business without disturbing current projects underway." The brand will focus on machine-made, tufted, loomed and printed product, and will soon launch its own website at artistic-weavers.com.