Какво означава vending machine на английски?

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vending machine Значение & определение

0 a machine from which you can buy small things such as cigarettes, drinks, and sweets by putting coins into it:
- The vending machine in the office dispenses really tasteless coffee.
1 a machine you put money into to buy small items such as packages of food, candy, and drinks
2 a machine from which you can buy cigarettes, drinks, sweets, etc. by putting money in:
- Companies should provide vending machines with healthy food choices.

On one reading, the vending machine itself is the commodity that is sold, its 'sellability' being due to some (unnamed) properties that it has.
We begin by hierarchically decomposing the animation into its constituents and start with the animation of the man and the vending machine.
The example with the vending machine (38c) is in fact ambiguous.
Consider two individual, physical objects, such as a vending machine and a coffeepot located at a faculty canteen.
Another questionable case is buying from a vending machine, where it seems odd to claim that either the machine or its owner has sold the item to the buyer.
Such a law is obviously false in the real world because the vending machine and the coffeepot are independent of each other, so their actions are not interleaved.
Since then a few short-term palliatives, such as additional types of automatic vending machine, have been applied to ease the difficulties.
For example, clause 2 states that it shall be an offence to sell cigarettes from a vending machine to someone under the age of 16.