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Mechanical
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- 1 Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar. archaic
"Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, Is in base durance and contagious prison, Haled thither by most mechanical and dirty hand."
- 2 Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
"mechanical engineering"
- 3 Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
"mechanical dictionary"
- 4 Done by machine.
"mechanical task"
- 5 Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
"mechanical arm"
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- 6 As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic. figuratively
"a mechanical reply to a question"
- 7 Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
"The pianist was too mechanical."
- 8 Handy with machines. informal
"Why don't you ask Joe to fix it? He's very mechanical."
- 9 Relating to the mechanics of a game.
"the mechanical aspects of a trading card game"
- 1 using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices wordnet
- 2 relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics wordnet
- 3 relating to or concerned with machinery or tools wordnet
- 1 Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
"Since we are dealing with copy in paste-up form, we are now concerned with the preparation and assembly of elements suitable for camera-ready copy, positioned on the mechanical according to the rough layout supplied."
- 2 One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
"Rude mechanicals must know their place in a horsey army."
- 3 A robot or mechanical creature.
"Is it a mechanical, or a man in a clockwork suit?"
- 4 A mechanical engineer.
"When the older courses had been separated from the literary curriculum eight years the civils, mechanicals and electricals had changed their relative positions four times."
- 5 An instance of equipment failure.
"The pack are suffering mechanicals and pull up under a lamp post marking a right turn."
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- 6 A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
"On the other hand I heard only recently of a modern marvel — an organ of two manuals and about sixteen or eighteen stops with adequate and modern mechanicals that the pastor assures me has not been touched by repairer or even by tuner in four years!"
- 7 A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor. archaic
"Roland jumped on the horse and with herculean strength picked her up one armed and plopped her down in front of him. “I've had my fill of mechanicals of late. Hold on.”"
Etymology
From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.
From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.
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