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mechanically

/muh-kan-i-kuhl/US // məˈkæn ɪ kəl //UK // (mɪˈkænɪkəl) //

机械地,机械上,机械上的,机械

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
    • : being a machine; operated by machinery: a mechanical toy.
    • : caused by or derived from machinery: mechanical propulsion.
    • : using machine parts only.
    • : brought about by friction, abrasion, etc.: a mechanical bond between stones; mechanical erosion.
    • : pertaining to the design, use, understanding, etc., of tools and machinery: the mechanical trades; mechanical ability.
    • : acting or performed without spontaneity, spirit, individuality, etc.: a mechanical performance.
    • : habitual; routine; automatic: Practice that step until it becomes mechanical.
    • : belonging or pertaining to the subject matter of mechanics.
    • : pertaining to, or controlled or effected by, physical forces.
    • : explaining phenomena as due to mechanical action or the material forces of the universe.
    • : subordinating the spiritual to the material; materialistic.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mechanical object, part, device, etc.
    • : Printing. a sheet of stiff paper on which has been pasted artwork and type proofs for making a printing plate; paste-up.
    • : Obsolete. a skilled manual laborer, as a carpenter or other artisan.

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Examples

  • The federal legislation also would prohibit the use of mechanical and chemical restraints.

  • Peale was apprenticed to a saddler at age 13, but spent almost as much time tinkering with mechanical devices of all sorts as he did saddling.

  • He is a mechanical engineer who has had a long career at Dassault.

  • Just months before mechanical engineering student Desmond Koney was due to graduate from college, his father died suddenly, leaving Desmond a struggling pineapple farm on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana’s capital.

  • It’s jam-packed with over 17,000 sensors tuned to mechanical forces alone, not to mention sensors for temperature and pain.

  • “Keeping in contact with those people, and mechanically getting them to the trial, those are the hard parts,” Risner said.

  • What about allowing a school to manually or "mechanically" restrain students?

  • “First we targeted the tanks and the jeeps with IEDs,” he said mechanically, as if recalling a combat briefing.

  • All this work serves to paint the actors and the action as very mechanically convincing.

  • This process can be mechanically assisted by deep belly massages and, yes, colonic irrigation.

  • He did not once look back at her; his face seemed full of thought, his hands acting as it were mechanically.

  • Now and then he touched one with his long and sallow fingers, lifted its cover, then let it drop mechanically.

  • "But—but—oh, tell me," and then he became silent and looked away, raising the sandwich to his mouth mechanically.

  • It is thus obvious that the drainage of the soil modifies its properties both mechanically and chemically.

  • Edna walked on down to the beach rather mechanically, not noticing anything special except that the sun was hot.