Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To equip with machinery.
- transitive verb To equip (a military unit) with motor vehicles, such as tanks and trucks.
- transitive verb To make automatic or unspontaneous; render routine or monotonous.
- transitive verb To produce by or as if by machines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render mechanical; bring into the form of mechanism; form mechanically; bring into a mechanical state or condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to be mechanical.
- transitive verb To introduce machinery into (a process) in order to reduce human effort or improve uniformity or quality of the result
- transitive verb (Mil.) To equip (an armed force) with tanks or other vehicles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
equip something withmachinery . - verb To equip a
military unity withtanks and otherarmed vehicles . - verb To make something
routine ,automatic ormonotonous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make monotonous; make automatic or routine
- verb make mechanical
- verb equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
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Examples
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Whether in the long run we should go onto mechanize is a question on which I do not wish to dogmatize, but I am certain that the improvement of agriculture in Asia should start with the extension of modern science to agriculture, rather than with mechanization.
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Unfortunately, Python's "mechanize" library is not as well developed as I would like to see it.
InquiryLabs 2010
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Ironically, while these proponents all think that inquiry and creativity are new skills, most want to mechanize their teaching.
no why, no how 2010
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The totalitarian system in the period of modern technical development can dispense with such men; thanks to modern methods of communication, it is possible to mechanize the lower leadership.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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Ironically, while these proponents all think that inquiry and creativity are new skills, most want to mechanize their teaching.
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Ironically, while these proponents all think that inquiry and creativity are new skills, most want to mechanize their teaching.
no why, no how 2010
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The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process.
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Ironically, while these proponents all think that inquiry and creativity are new skills, most want to mechanize their teaching.
Leadership 2010
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The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process.
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Ironically, while these proponents all think that inquiry and creativity are new skills, most want to mechanize their teaching.
Creativity 2010
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