What is difference between machine and machinery?Because I'm learning Accounting Principles for A Levels, and under the heading of 'Fixed Assets', machine and machinery are two different examples.
At its simplest, a machine is an invention that does a job better and faster and more powerfully than a human being. Despite being man-made we’ve come to think of the word machine as the very opposite of human. The Machine Age we live in is considered impersonal and overwhelming, and anything machine-like is often considered soulless or even dangerous. (Witness the countless fantasies of robots taking over the world.) Human beings working together, like the cogs of a machine, can become more powerful than a single person. That's why sports teams or political organizations are often described as well-oiled machines. Machinery means a number machines or machine systems collectively.
Machine is a contraption, machinery is complex contraptions.
A machine is just machine...you know...but machinery is the field of machines...
