Mechanized vs Mechanical - What's the difference?
mechanized | mechanical |
(mechanize)
Equipped with machinery.
(military) Equipped with armoured motor vehicles; compare .
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.
As adjectives the difference between mechanized and mechanical
is that mechanized is equipped with machinery while mechanical is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.As a verb mechanized
is past tense of mechanize.mechanized
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Alternative forms
* mechanisedVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (military) armoured, armored * (military) motorized rifle, motor-rifle, motor rifle (qualifier)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.}}
