Automobile vs Mechanical - What's the difference?
automobile | mechanical |
(US, Canada) A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load. A car or motorcar.
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Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
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Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
Done by machine.
Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
(of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
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As a noun automobile
is .As an adjective mechanical is
characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.automobile
English
(wikipedia automobile)Noun
(en noun)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
Usage notes
* The word automobile usually implies a car with seating for perhaps four or five passengers. * A vehicle with more than six or seven seats is usually described as a limousine, minivan, van, SUV, bus, etc.Synonyms
* (passenger vehicle) auto, car, (British) motor, (British) motorcar * See alsoCoordinate terms
* truck, van, bus, SUV, minivan, station wagon, sedan, coupe, convertible, sports car, racecar; wagon, cart, trailer, tractor; airplane, boat, shipVerb
mechanical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
