different between automatic vs selfly
automatic
English
Alternative forms
- automatick
Etymology
From French automatique, from Ancient Greek ????????? (autómaton), neuter of ????????? (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from ????? (autós, “self, myself”) + ????? (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???t??mæt?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /??t??mæt?k/, [?????mæ??k]
- Rhymes: -æt?k
Adjective
automatic (comparative more automatic, superlative most automatic) (superlative dubious)
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Antonyms: manual, non-automatic
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Synonyms: instinctive, perfunctory, thoughtless
- Antonym: voluntary
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
- (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- Coordinate terms: semi-automatic, burst mode, selective action, bolt action, lever action, (single-round per loading/chambering action) pump action
- (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
- (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Albanian: automatik
- ? Malay: automatik
Translations
Noun
automatic (plural automatics)
- A car with automatic transmission.
- I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
- A semi-automatic pistol.
Antonyms
- (car with automatic transmission): stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission
Translations
See also
(automotive):
- semi-automatic
- manumatic
- manual
Romanian
Etymology
From French automatique
Adjective
automatic m or n (feminine singular automatic?, masculine plural automatici, feminine and neuter plural automatice)
- automatic
Declension
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selfly
English
Etymology
From Middle English selfly, from Old English selfl?? (“automatic, spontaneous, voluntary”); equivalent to self +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?lfli/
Adjective
selfly (comparative more selfly, superlative most selfly)
- Of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
- 2001, Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology:
- This denotes and declares the divided tongues, where every property had brought itself forth out of the universal sensual tongue into a selishness and a peculiar selfly understanding, so that they did not any longer understand one another […]
- 2001, Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology:
Adverb
selfly (not comparable)
- In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
- 1880, Josuah Sylvester, The complete works of Joshuah Sylvester:
- Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light
- 1880, Josuah Sylvester, The complete works of Joshuah Sylvester:
selfly From the web:
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- what does selfly
- what do selfless mean
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