Human vs. Machine — What's the Difference?

Humans (Homo sapiens) are the most abundant and widespread species of primates, characterized by bipedality and large, complex brains enabling the development of advanced tools, culture and language. Humans are highly social beings and tend to live in complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states.

A machine is any physical system with ordered structural and functional properties. It may represent human-made or naturally occurring device molecular machine that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.

Relating to or characteristic of humankind

A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that redirects mechanical energy to accomplish a particular task or set of tasks.

A human being.

See simple machine.

A member of the primate genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other apes by a large brain and the capacity for speech.

See compound machine.

A person

A system or device for doing work, as an automobile or jackhammer, together with its power source and auxiliary equipment.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans

A system or device, such as a computer, that performs or assists in the performance of a human task

Having or showing those positive aspects of nature and character regarded as distinguishing humans from other animals

An intricate natural system or organism, such as the human body.

Subject to or indicative of the weaknesses, imperfections, and fragility associated with humans

A person who acts in a rigid, mechanical, or unconscious manner.

Having the form of a human.

An organized group of people whose members are or appear to be under the control of one or more leaders

Made up of humans

A device used to produce a stage effect, especially a mechanical means of lowering an actor onto the stage.

(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

A literary device used to produce an effect, especially the introduction of a supernatural being to resolve a plot.

(comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.

An answering machine

(narrowly) The tallest, most abundant and most intelligent of primates; Homo sapiens.

Of, relating to, or felt to resemble a machine

(broadly) Any hominid of the genus Homo.

To cut, shape, or finish by machine.

(rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.

To be cut, shaped, or finished by machine

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

A human being.

(dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

A human being;

An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae

(computing) A computer.

Characteristic of humanity;

(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

Relating to a person;

Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.

Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings;

(poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.

Penis.

(historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.

(obsolete) A bathing machine.

To make by machinery.

To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another.

A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks

An intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently;

An efficient person;

4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine;

A group that controls the activities of a political party;

A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point

Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery

Make by machinery;