machinator vs crook

machinator and crook both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
machinator	Yes	No	No	No
crook	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, crook is a hypernym of machinator; that is, crook is a word with a broader meaning than machinator:

machinator: a member of a conspiracy
crook: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of machinator include criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw.

machinator (noun)	crook (noun)
a member of a conspiracy	a long staff with one end being hook shaped
	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
	a circular segment of a curve

machinator (verb)	crook (verb)
	bend or cause to bend