Casual vs Mechanical - What's the difference?
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Happening by chance.
* (Washington Irving)
Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Employed irregularly.
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, title= Careless.
* 2007 , Nick Holland, The Girl on the Bus (page 117)
Happening or coming to pass without design.
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, chapter=8 Informal, relaxed.
Designed for informal or everyday use.
(British, NZ) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
(UK) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see .
One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
A player of casual games.
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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, title= (informal) Handy with machines.
Casual is a related term of mechanical.
As adjectives the difference between casual and mechanical
is that casual is happening by chance while mechanical is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.As a noun casual
is (british|nz) a worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.casual
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Alternative forms
* casuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- casual breaks, in the general system
- a constant habit, rather than a casual gesture
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
- I removed my jacket and threw it casually over the back of the settee.
citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
Derived terms
* casually * casualization * smart casualSynonyms
*(happening by chance) accidental, fortuitous, incidental, occasional *(happening or coming to pass without design) unexpected * informalAntonyms
*(happening by chance) inevitable, necessary *(happening or coming to pass without design) expected, scheduled * ceremonial, formalNoun
(en noun)References
*Anagrams
* ----mechanical
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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.}}