单词 | automatize |
释义 | automatizev. 1. transitive. To reduce (a person) to an automaton. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [verb (transitive)] > automaton automatize1828 1828 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 243/2 A diplomatic autocratical mother, who conceives that her son..is a sort of clock, who is to go just as she winds it up... However, he cannot be wholly automatized. 1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace i, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 1/2 Man; forced to exist, automatised, mummy-wise. 1850 N.-Y. Med. Gaz. 30 Nov. 348/1 The many monotonous and spiritless employments that wither the heart and automatize the man. 1943 J. T. MacCurdy Struct. Morale ii. iv. 71 Any training which tends to automatize soldiers must be deliberately balanced with exercises that neutralize that tendency. 1987 T. Cleary in tr. Chang Po-tuan Understanding Reality Introd. 21 That arbitrary adoption of formal practices because of tradition or attraction can simply automatize people. 2. transitive. To make (an action) automatic; (now esp.) to make (language, behaviour) habitual, or reproducible without conscious thought. ΚΠ 1865 F. J. Hamel Protestantism in Peril ii. 29 An encroaching and unruly passion for artificialising and automatising the utterances of devotion. 1906 E. J. Swift in J. H. Tufts et al. Stud. in Philos. & Psychol. x. 303 All the symbols were partially learned at the start, and the remainder of the time was given to automatizing this knowledge. 1918 Educ. Admin. & Supervision 4 241 If teachers are asked for a language game that will automatize the phrase It is I rather than It is me, the same game may be used for the automatizing of who and whom. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 855 The maternal instinct..is so strong and yet so deeply automatized in many animals. 1970 P. Herriot Introd. Psychol. Lang. ii. 23 It is..tempting to infer that quite large grammatical units are automatised, together with the articulatory skills which are necessary for their production. 2009 Physical Therapy (Nexis) 1 Apr. 384 Secondary cognitive tasks are added to mobility tasks to automatize control of balance and gait. 3. transitive. Originally U.S. To automate (a system or process). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > adopt doctrines, methods, or management systems [verb (transitive)] > automate robotize1927 automatize1952 automate1954 cybernate1962 1952 Sci. Amer. Sept. 152/3 The estimated cost of complete instrumentation of a new modern plant to automatize it as fully as possible. 1955 Atlantic June 14/2 Only a war, he believes, could automatize industry overnight. 1988 October 47 37 Capital accumulation..constantly seeks to cheapen labor costs and automatize production. 2002 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 11 Nov. 50 A pilot will see a..picture..that indicates where there is precipitation in the atmosphere... The pilot then interprets that picture. We're automatizing the interpretation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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