Skip to main content

automat

/aw-tuh-mat/US // ˈɔ təˌmæt //UK // (ˈɔːtəˌmæt) //

自动,自动化,自动装置,自动机

Definitions

  1. 1

    Trademark.

    • : a type of self-service restaurant in which customers obtain food from small compartments by depositing the required number of coins in slots so that the doors can be opened.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Joe Horn and Frank Hardart opened a chain of Automat restaurants in New York City around the mid-1900s that served fresh pastries, pies, doughnuts, cakes, soups, and salads.

  • The Automat restaurants, for example, where the customer gets all his requirements himself, would never do in London.

  • He didn't quite remember how he had left the automat, and he didn't even try to remember.

  • Stanton went through the door of the automat restaurant and walked over to the vending wall.

  • Mr. Lum, leaning against the Automat, darkly considered this eventuality.

  • He didn't quite remember how he had left the automat, and he really didn't even try to remember.