different between machinelike vs automatic

English

Etymology

machine +? -like

Adjective

machinelike (comparative more machinelike, superlative most machinelike)

1. Resembling a machine; mechanical in form
   • 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times

     The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.

Synonyms

• mechanical

Translations

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

Derived terms

Related terms

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