mechanical

«mechanical» in Mova's school dictionary: To do with machines or worked by machines, with moving… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (mechanical)

meaning for a pupil

1) To do with machines or worked by machines, with moving parts like gears, levers and wheels. tree →

2) Done without thinking, like a machine, out of habit. tree →

3) Mechanical engineering: designing and building machines. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and design lessons, mechanical toys use cams, gears and pulleys; a mechanical problem is something wrong with a machine. In everyday life, a car breakdown may be a mechanical fault. In writing, a mechanical answer is done without thought. Phrases: mechanical pencil, mechanical engineer, mechanical problem.

examples

• The old clock has mechanical parts inside. tree →
• We built a mechanical toy with a cam. tree →
• The bus stopped because of a mechanical problem. tree →
• My mechanical pencil never needs sharpening. tree →
• She answered in a mechanical voice, as if she wasn't listening. tree →
• A mechanical engineer designs machines and engines. tree →
• The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real. tree →

note

Adverb: mechanically. Related: mechanic (a person who fixes cars and machines), mechanism (the working parts).

In the corpora

• Mechanical clocks spread in Europe from about 1300, and China built a great water-driven clock tower in the 1090s.
• Europe's first mechanical clocks, about 700 years ago, often had one hand or none at all.
• Early mechanical clocks in Europe, about 700 years ago, often had only an hour hand.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mechanical» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.