English Explanatory Dictionary

mechanical

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
  2. Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
  3. Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
  4. Done by machine.
  5. Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
  6. As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
  7. Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  8. Handy with machines.
  9. Relating to the mechanics of a game.
noun
  1. Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
  2. One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
  3. A robot or mechanical creature.
  4. A mechanical engineer.
  5. An instance of equipment failure.
  6. A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
  7. A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.

Pronunciation

/məˈkænɪkəl/ /məˈkænəkəl/ en-us-mechanical.ogg

Word forms

mechanical more mechanical most mechanical mechanicals

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.? Ancient Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek μηχᾰνῐκός (mēkhănĭkós)bor. Latin mēchanicusder. Old French mecaniquebor. Middle English mechanic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English mechanical English mechanical From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.

Synonyms

pasteup

Related words

mechanic mechanics mechanism

Derived words

acoustomechanical aeromechanical bio-mechanical biomechanical chemomechanical cytomechanical elastomechanical electro-mechanical electromechanical electro-mechanical computer endomechanical geomechanical histomechanical hydromechanical iatromechanical immechanical logical mechanical element macromechanical magnetomechanical mechanical advantage mechanical bank mechanical bull mechanical digestion mechanical energy mechanical engineer mechanical engineering mechanical eraser mechanical erasure mechanical erosion mechanical game mechanical horse mechanical horsepower mechanicality mechanicalization mechanicalize mechanical keyboard mechanical larynx mechanical lithosphere mechanically mechanical mouse mechanicalness mechanical pencil mechanical shovel mechanical splice mechanical stoker mechanical sympathy micro-electro-mechanical micromechanical morphomechanical musicomechanical nano-electro-mechanical nanomechanical neuromechanical nonmechanical optomechanical osmomechanical palaeomechanical pathomechanical pharmacomechanical photomechanical

Translations

Arabic: مِيكَانِيكِيّ Belarusian: механі́чны Bulgarian: механи́чен Catalan: mecànic Czech: mechanický Danish: mekanisk Dutch: mechanisch Esperanto: meĥanika Esperanto: mekanika Finnish: mekaaninen French: mécanique Galician: mecánico Georgian: მექანიკური German: mechanisch Greek: μηχανικός Ancient Greek: μηχανικός Hungarian: mechanikai Hungarian: mechanikus Indonesian: mekanis Irish: meicniúil Italian: meccanico Latvian: mehānisks Malay: mekanikal Norwegian Bokmål: mekanisk Polish: mechaniczny Portuguese: mecânico Romanian: mecanic Russian: механи́ческий Slovak: mechanický Slovene: meháničen Spanish: mecánico Swedish: mekanisk Tagalog: sigmuin Ukrainian: механі́чний Yiddish: מעכאַניש
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