Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A photographic lens-shutter which is opened and kept open by means of a pneumatic bulb.
- n. An apparatus consisting of a series of lifts in compartments from which, by means of automatic machinery, separate articles of food at stated prices are delivered to any one who will drop the necessary coin into a slot; also, a restaurant which serves its customers by means of such an apparatus. The aim is to do away with the intermediation of waiters.
Wiktionary
- n. A vending machine for food.
- n. A cafeteria consisting of vending machines.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a vending machine from which you can get food.
- n. a type of cafeteria where food is served from machines.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a vending machine from which you can get food
- n. a cafeteria where food is served from machines
Etymologies
- From the German Automat, as the system was originally developed in Germany. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As shoppers stopped to purchase bread from an automat in a suburban Frankfurt Aldi one recent afternoon, many said they weren't terribly bothered by the distinction.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fresh Test: Grocery Store Automats Get a Rise Out of German Bakers
“The third-generation baker lobs 15 cents into the massive, beige-colored automat before him, presses a button and cocks his ear to the machine for any clues to what's transpiring inside.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fresh Test: Grocery Store Automats Get a Rise Out of German Bakers
“Adding insult, the automat goods cost about half the price of most bakeries 'fresh bread.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fresh Test: Grocery Store Automats Get a Rise Out of German Bakers
“We would always have lunch at Horn & Hardart 's automat, which was the most fabulous place.”
The Wall Street Journal: My Hall of Enchantment (And One Very Bad Date)
“Concerned about the intrusion of his head-camera, which is rigged to broadcast online a live stream of images snapped automat ically at one-minute intervals, some of Mr. Bilal ' s acquaintances have removed him from their guest lists, he said Thursday in his first newspaper interview about the project.”
“William S. Burroughs counseled both Richards and Smith, at different times, and Ginsberg tried to pick up Smith at a Horn & Hardart automat, thinking she was a he.”
The Washington Post: Patti Smith and Keith Richards: a study in contrast
“Pg 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill - Medicaid Eligible Individual will be automat. enrolled in Medicaid ..”
Anti-Health Care Reform, Anti-Obama: What's Been Going Out As "Gospel" Part Two
“I know, I know, it's a weird idea, that an automat might be considered a kind of wunderkammer.”
“All they needed were little Surprise Drawers down at the bottom which furnished you with an unknown treat, or secret "free" compartments, in which you could have the contents if you could find the hidden door, to complete the experience of foraging in some kind of crazy Museum of Food (both these images, by the way, were some of the many that came into my dreams for years after my visit to the automat).”
“The Smithsonian has a 35-foot section of the original 1902 Horn & Hardart automat in Philadelphia, which is "beautifully ornate with its mirrors, marble and marquetry" and I'm sure is about as close to a Cabinet of Curious Food as you can get.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘automat’.
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Mundane Transformers
Bore that meets the eye.
potamogeton, testator, scrutator, isolator, confiteor, deflator, qwerty, susceptor, champertor, preemptor, disinfector, infractor and 91 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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yawen's list
changes
who are you, relief, cloudy, mascara, bangs, 10th floor, automat, st. marks, mess, 10,000th wordie
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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librarygoblin's words
crystal, ghost, mist, snow, labyrinth, citadel, tomb, mystery, arcane, conundrum, echo, dynamo and 389 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Ghosts
soda jerk, rotary, automat, dumbwaiter, bellhop, space race, phosphate soda, elevator operator, pony express, telegram, penny candy, gramophone and 15 more...
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Scarequotes's Words
scare quotes, celebritot, crwth, seattleite, splatterpunk, concupiscent, pinxit, question setter, gotham, quagga, typewriter, daddy-o and 16 more...
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You Are Where You Eat
diner, brasserie, rotisserie, bistro, cafeteria, canteen, grillroom, steakhouse, teahouse, cafe, chophouse, greasy spoon and 22 more...
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Tunie: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
This isn't my own feminine philosophy; I just love the phrasing.
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives and gives <...diamonds are a gi..., the french, quite continental, grand, humble flat, automat, men grow cold as ..., we all lose our c..., these rocks, a time when a las..., awful nice, get that ice or e... and 5 more...
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zantony's Words
automat, apoplexy, carnival, baccanalia, erstwhile, moxie, panoply, esoteric, aplomb, widdershins, malfeasance, chthonic and 13 more...
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Zee Germans
(from Snatch):
Turkish: Fuck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers?...gesiebeautomat, schadenfreude, verboten, weltschmerz, blitzkrieg, ansatz, farkakte, beergarden, alpenglow, angst, anschluss, autobahn and 53 more...
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