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Mechanical vs Madrier - What's the difference?

mechanical | madrier |

As an adjective mechanical

is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.

As a noun madrier is

a thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes.

mechanical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
  • *, I.43:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • *, chapter=15
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (informal) Handy with machines.
  • Derived terms

    * electromechanical * mechanical erasure * mechanicality * mechanically * mechanicalness * mechanical pencil * postmechanical * premechanical

    madrier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes.
  • # A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down.
  • # A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.
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