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MECHANICALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a machinelike manner; without feeling
Example:
he smiled mechanically
Classified under:
Pertainym:
mechanical (using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a mechanical manner; by a mechanism
Example:
this door opens mechanically
Synonyms:
automatically; mechanically
Classified under:
Pertainym:
mechanical (relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics)
Context examples:
These were some of the thoughts which occupied Anne, while her fingers were mechanically at work, proceeding for half an hour together, equally without error, and without consciousness.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Having a head mechanically turned, and being likewise forced by necessity, I had made for myself a table and chair convenient enough, out of the largest trees in the royal park.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The act of forming granules by mechanically applying pressure by punch and die to form a compact that is subsequently milled and screened resulting in dry granules.
(Dry Slugging Granulation, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore used chlorine to drill ultra-small holes into the surface of titanium to produce ‘nanopillars’ that mechanically stretch and rupture bacterial membranes.
(Nanopillars help orthopaedic implants resist infection, SciDev.Net)
The act of forming granules by mechanically applying pressure by rollers to form a compact that is subsequently milled and screened resulting in dry granules.
(Dry Roller Compaction Granulation, NCI Thesaurus)
Mechanically, at short range, without letting go of it, he thrust a brand full into her open and snarling mouth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Mechanically, I obeyed, turned eastwards, and with my cutlass raised, ran round the corner of the house.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
They had now entered a beautiful walk by the side of the water, and every step was bringing forward a nobler fall of ground, or a finer reach of the woods to which they were approaching; but it was some time before Elizabeth was sensible of any of it; and, though she answered mechanically to the repeated appeals of her uncle and aunt, and seemed to direct her eyes to such objects as they pointed out, she distinguished no part of the scene.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"Yes'm, thank you, ma'am," he mumbled mechanically.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
