automaticadjective
uk/ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/us/ˌɑː.t̬əˈmæt̬.ɪk/automatic adjective (INDEPENDENT)
B2 An automatic machine or device is able to operate independently of human control:
automatic doors
an automatic rifle
automatic focus on a camera
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- These automatic cameras have a special focusing mechanism.
- The state legislature passed an act banning the sale of automatic weapons.
- a fusillade of automatic fire
- This is the best automatic camera out.
- an automatic pistol
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Engineering - mechanical
- -engined
- artificer
- automatically
- automative
- hydraulic
- idle
- internal combustion engine
- mechanic
- mechanical
- mechanically
- octane
- octane number
- outboard motor
- strip
- tick
- tick over
- torque
- tune
- vane
- wheelbase
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automatic adjective (NOT CONSCIOUS)
C2 done without thinking about it:
Over time, driving just becomes automatic.
My automatic response was to pull my hand away.
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Not expected or planned
- ad hoc
- ad hocism
- ad hockery
- ad lib
- ad-lib
- adventitious
- against (all) the odds/against all odds idiom
- explosive
- involuntary
- it's just one of those things idiom
- just like that idiom
- make sth up as you go along idiom
- muddle
- sharply
- spur
- summary
- unawares
- undreamed of
- unexpected
- unforeseen
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automatic adjective (CERTAIN)
C2 certain to happen as part of the normal process or system:
Citizenship is automatic for children born in this country.
You get an automatic promotion after two years.
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Inevitable
- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatically
- be (only) a matter of time idiom
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- damned
- doom
- fate
- fated
- implacable
- inevitably
- inexorable
- it can't be helped idiom
- matter
- relentless
- remorseless
- seal
- unavoidable
- unstoppable
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automaticnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/us/ˌɑː.t̬əˈmæt̬.ɪk/a vehicle in which you do not have to change the gears:
Kate drives an automatic.
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Machines - general words
- 3-D printer
- backhoe
- bot
- cash machine
- cement mixer
- cloud chamber
- compactor
- contraption
- cotton gin
- crank
- derrick
- gadget
- humidifier
- lift
- Mk
- plant
- rotor
- selector
- sensitive
- vending machine
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