mechanized
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈmɛkəˌnaɪzd/
- Specialized
:
mecanizado
- The factory employs mechanized processes to produce thousands of cars every day.
- forms of mechanized irrigation
You know, it's all mechanized and the towns are crumbling.
- You know, it's all mechanized and the towns are crumbling.
- The first mechanized transportation system famously lost a race to a horse.
Examples
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From 2003 to 2005, Ukraine participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, deploying a mechanized brigade of 1,650 servicemen.
Academic text (2010) -
For training efficiency, you can't beat single-purpose divisions: airborne, air assault, mechanized, infantry.
Blog text (21) -
Even farmers get to sit in mechanized processes these days.
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The first mechanized transportation system famously lost a race to a horse.
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Work in rational, mechanized agriculture sets its stamp on the day.
Academic text (1999) -
You know, it's all mechanized and the towns are crumbling.
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We will teach them, Sherif Ali, to fight a modern, mechanized army.
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Contemporary antitank and antipersonnel weapons make successful defense against a mechanized attack possible.
Academic text (1991) -
Egypt's original mechanized textile industry was in part based on British transnational capital and technology.
Academic text (1999) -
The assistance took the forms of irrigation, mechanized cultivation, soil, meteorology, crop rotation, and fishing technology.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
74
4.0
Machines or computers run a system instead of people
58
4.6
Made like a machine that works by itself
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3.9
Moving or acting like a machine without feeling
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3.1
Made by a machine rather than by hand
1
4.2
A thing that uses machines or computers instead of people to do work
1
4.8
Machines run it with little or no human help
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3.8
Having a motor that makes it move or work
Having a small engine that makes it move, like a bike or boat
Antonyms
Compounds
How Mechanized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mechanized comes from an old Greek word mechanē meaning 'device' or 'machine', and the ending -ize means 'to make' (you can see this in realize). So mechanized means something is 'made for or done by machines' instead of by hand.