mechanize en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈmɛkənaɪz/
- (US) audio
Meanings
- To equip something with machinery.
- To equip a military unit with tanks and other armed vehicles.
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To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.
The engineering department of the Sinkiang Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau fully utilized both native and foreign methods to carry out innovation and technical revolution. About 80 percent of its line work are now mechanized. A remote control switch for the radio transmitter was test-produced by the Kashgar and A-k'o-su bureaus.
1960 June 3 [1960 April 6], “Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus”, in Weekly Report on Communist China, number 28, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, translation of original by Jen-min Yu-tian, →OCLC, page 16:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mechanized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mechanized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| mechanizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mechanizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| mechanise | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
mechanizable · demechanize · mechanizer · remechanize · mechanizability · unmechanize
Relateds
Translations (26)
be механізава́ць (to equip with machinery) · gl mecanizar (to equip with machinery) · ca mecanitzar (to equip with machinery) · fi mekaanistaa (to make something routine, automatic or monotonous) · pl mechanizować (to make something routine, automatic or monotonous) · pt mecanizar (to equip with machinery) · fi mekanisoida (military: to equip with vehicles) · fi koneellistaa (to equip with machinery) · de mechanisieren (to equip with machinery) · cmn 機械化 /机械化 (to equip with machinery) · ko 기계화하다 (to equip with machinery) · fr mécaniser (to equip with machinery) · fi mekanisoida (to equip with machinery) · pl zmechanizować (to equip with machinery) · ka მექანიზება (to equip with machinery) · ru механизи́ровать (to equip with machinery) · ar مَكْنَنَ (to equip with machinery) · pl mechanizować (to equip with machinery) · ja 機械化する (to equip with machinery) · bg механизи́рам (to equip with machinery) · pl zmechanizować (to make something routine, automatic or monotonous) · es mecanizar (to equip with machinery) · mk механизи́ра (to equip with machinery) · ast mecanizar (to equip with machinery) · it meccanizzare (to equip with machinery) · uk механізува́ти (to equip with machinery)