different between innate vs automatic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inn?tus (“inborn”), perfect active participle of inn?scor (“be born in, grow up in”), from in (“in, at on”) + n?scor (“be born”); see natal, native.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ne?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

innate (not comparable)

1. Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
2. (philosophy) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.
3. Instinctive; coming from instinct.
   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 3

     As if she held the clue to something secret in his breast, of the nature of which he was hardly informed himself. As if she had an innate knowledge of one jarring and discordant string within him, and her very breath could sound it.

4. (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.

Usage notes

• Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.

Synonyms

• (existing or having existed since birth): See also Thesaurus:innate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• a priori
• intuitive.

Verb

innate (third-person singular simple present innates, present participle innating, simple past and past participle innated)

1. (obsolete) To cause to exist; to call into being.

Translations

References

• innate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• innate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• annite, ante in, nanite, tannie

Italian

Adjective

innate f pl

1. feminine plural of innato

Latin

Participle

inn?te

1. vocative masculine singular of inn?tus

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)

1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

   Antonyms: manual, non-automatic

2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

   Synonyms: instinctive, perfunctory, thoughtless

   Antonym: voluntary

3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

4. (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

5. (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.
6. (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
7. (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata

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Descendants

• ? Albanian: automatik
• ? Malay: automatik

Translations

Noun

automatic (plural automatics)

1. A car with automatic transmission.

   I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.

2. 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)

1. automatic

Declension