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mechanized

mechanized

14 4.2
Machines do the work instead of people, for example in factories or farms
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • The first mechanized transportation system famously lost a race to a horse.

    Rich Roll

  • 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.

    Rich Roll

  • We will teach them, Sherif Ali, to fight a modern, mechanized army.

    Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  • 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

automated
vsmechanized
102 4.0

Machines or computers run a system instead of people

can mean being equipped with machinery rather than only computer control
robotic
vsmechanized
64 4.6

Made like a machine that works by itself

focuses on robot likeness rather than simply equipment with machinery
mechanical
vsmechanized
36 3.9

Moving or acting like a machine without feeling

emphasizes resembling a machine in action rather than simply being equipped
motorized
vsmechanized
  • US
20 3.8

Having a motor that makes it move or work

is broader, covering machinery generally not only motor driven devices
machine-made
vsmechanized
3 3.1

Made by a machine rather than by hand

describes machinery use in production of items rather than general operation
motored
vsmechanized
1 3.2

Having a small engine that makes it move, like a bike or boat

is broader, covering different kinds of machinery not just motor power
machine-controlled
vsmechanized
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Machines run it with little or no human help

allows machinery use but may include human operators or supervision
machine-driven
vsmechanized
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A thing that uses machines or computers instead of people to do work

is broader, including being equipped with machinery for various tasks

Antonyms

manual
139 3.8

Done by hand rather than by a machine

unmechanized
1 7.2

That does not use machines for work

Compounds

mechanized cavalry
  • Specialized
1 7.9

A group of soldiers who use armored vehicles instead of horses

How Mechanized

robotic
64 4.6
automated
102 4.0
motorized
  • US
20 3.8
mechanized
  • Specialized
14 4.2
manual
139 3.8

Surface Forms

mechanized positive

Morphology

mechanized = mechanize (transparent) = mechanize + ed

Formed regularly by adding the past-participial/adjectival suffix '-ed' to the verb 'mechanize', so learners who know 'mechanize' or 'mechanical' can infer the meaning.

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.