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Automatic vs Selfly - What's the difference?

automatic | selfly |

As adjectives the difference between automatic and selfly

is that automatic is capable of operating without external control or intervention while selfly is of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.

As a noun automatic

is a car with automatic transmission.

As an adverb selfly is

in, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.

automatic

English

Alternative forms

* automatick

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
    • The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
  • Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
    • The reaction was automatic : flight!
  • (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
  • (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  • (maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata

    • Synonyms

    * (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctive

    Antonyms

    * (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntary

    Derived terms

    * automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automatical

    Related terms

    * automagical * automat * automaton * automation * automatization * automatize * automobile * autopilot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A car with automatic transmission.
    • I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .
  • A semi-automatic firearm.

    • Antonyms

    * (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission

    selfly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
  • * 2001 , Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology :
    • This denotes and declares the divided tongues, where every property had brought itself forth out of the universal sensual tongue into a selishness and a peculiar selfly understanding, so that they did not any longer understand one another [...]

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
  • * 1880 , Josuah Sylvester, The complete works of Joshuah Sylvester: for the first time ... :
    • Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light