Dictionary

machinelike en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle French machinebor. English machine Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English machinelike From machine + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling a machine; mechanical in form
   • She achieved the movement by propelling herself through a series of balances, her arms and legs moving slowly and continuously, almost machinelike. 1988 July 1, Laura Molzahn, “Private Puritan”, in Chicago Reader:
   • The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste. 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times:

Forms

Synonyms

mechanical

Translations (5)

mr मशिनीसारखे (Translations) · de maschinenmäßig (Translations) · es maquinal (Translations) · mr मशिनीसारखा (Translations) · mr मशिनीसारखी (Translations)