Machinery vs. Manpower — What's the Difference?

Machines or machine parts considered as a group.

The power of human physical strength.

The working parts of a particular machine.

Power in terms of the workers available to a particular group or required for a particular task. See Usage Note at chairman.

A system of related elements that operate in a definable manner

The total number of all available workers; the workforce.

A device or means of achieving or effecting a result.

The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.)

A literary device for bringing about an effect, such as a happy ending.

The force of workers available

The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.

The working parts of a machine as a group.

The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

(figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

Machines, in general, or collectively.

The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.

The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.

The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

Machines or machine systems collectively

A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions;