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单词 automat
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Definition of automat in English:

automat

noun ˈɔːtə(ʊ)matˈɔdəˌmæt
US historical
  • A cafeteria in which food and drink were obtained from slot machines.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By the 1920s, some restaurants and automats were heavily populated with gay men, especially late at night, and a few places openly catered to them.
    • When the detective in The Erasers eats lunch, it is in an automat where food is reduced to ‘cubes’ and ‘replicas.’
    • A lone female figure sits alone drinking in an automat, an area supplied with vending machines that is pure Americana.
    • Fueled by the nickels of new legions of white collar workers and immigrants who could not speak English and therefore could not order at a restaurant, the automat prospered in the early 1900s and handily survived the Depression.
    • When we got back from lunch, I realised I'd left mine back in the automat.

Origin

Late 17th century (denoting an automaton): from German, from French automate, from Latin automaton (see automaton). The current sense dates from the early 20th century.

 
 

Definition of automat in US English:

automat

nounˈɔdəˌmætˈôdəˌmat
US historical
  • A cafeteria in which food and drink were obtained from vending machines.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fueled by the nickels of new legions of white collar workers and immigrants who could not speak English and therefore could not order at a restaurant, the automat prospered in the early 1900s and handily survived the Depression.
    • When we got back from lunch, I realised I'd left mine back in the automat.
    • A lone female figure sits alone drinking in an automat, an area supplied with vending machines that is pure Americana.
    • By the 1920s, some restaurants and automats were heavily populated with gay men, especially late at night, and a few places openly catered to them.
    • When the detective in The Erasers eats lunch, it is in an automat where food is reduced to ‘cubes’ and ‘replicas.’

Origin

Late 17th century (denoting an automaton): from German, from French automate, from Latin automaton (see automaton). The current sense dates from the early 20th century.

 
 
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