单词 | machinize |
释义 | machinizev. Now rare. transitive. To make into a machine; to reduce to the form or status of a machine. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > reduce to the structure of a machine machinize1856 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iii. 19 The traveller..reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting, seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion. 1901 Congress. Rec. 34 i. 738/1 The real purpose of these rules is to machinize this House..to magnify the machine and minify the member. 1928 Amer. Speech 3 434 An investigator of nurses' training asks whether nurses are to become ‘machinized and routinized’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1856 |
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