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Definition of machine-like in English: machine-likeadjective Resembling or characteristic of a machine. gigantic masts, with their machine-like appearance a monotonous life, operating with machine-like regularity Example sentencesExamples - In her brain began the methodical and often machine-like thought process of dealing with catastrophic equipment failure during a freefall.
- Using phone interviews, men and women were questioned by either a live person, a recorded human voice or a machine-like voice.
- He also came to know and admire the machine-like designs of the artists and designers working at the Bauhaus school of art in Germany.
- He conveyed a sort of dehumanized, machinelike approach.
- Every sound fits appropriately within the game's digital world, with many vocal utterances seemingly processed by filters to lend them a menacing or machine-like tone.
- In Hard Times he seems not to be directing his attack against machinery but against what Carlyle would have seen as a machine-like mentality.
- The mixture of nearly machinelike order and organic irregularities implies that intuition and reason are working simultaneously.
- The robots are realised beautifully, but they're also old-fashioned robots - so blocky and machine-like.
- They have to be understood as human beings and separated out from the machine-like business systems.
- Up close, one can see that despite their appearance of machinelike regularity, each geometric shape is painstakingly painted with short, thick, horizontal strokes layered, bricklike, in row upon row.
- Some complained that the almost machine-like efficiency of his play made him boring to watch.
- If organisations and the individuals within them operated in a machine-like fashion, institutionalising best practice would be straightforward.
- As computers become more human-like, humans will become more machine-like.
- She had a machinelike way of going on about a topic, as though she were speaking to imbeciles.
- Right after The Origin of Species was published, he wrote a whole book on the complex machine-like devices in orchid flowers.
- There's something wonderfully machine-like about the operation.
- A smooth and machine-like precision doesn't necessarily mean that the customer is made to feel at home.
Synonyms automatic, unthinking, unemotional, unconscious, involuntary, instinctive, routine, matter-of-fact, habitual, inattentive Definition of machine-like in US English: machine-likeadjective Resembling or characteristic of a machine. gigantic masts, with their machine-like appearance a monotonous life, operating with machine-like regularity Example sentencesExamples - In her brain began the methodical and often machine-like thought process of dealing with catastrophic equipment failure during a freefall.
- As computers become more human-like, humans will become more machine-like.
- Using phone interviews, men and women were questioned by either a live person, a recorded human voice or a machine-like voice.
- A smooth and machine-like precision doesn't necessarily mean that the customer is made to feel at home.
- Up close, one can see that despite their appearance of machinelike regularity, each geometric shape is painstakingly painted with short, thick, horizontal strokes layered, bricklike, in row upon row.
- Every sound fits appropriately within the game's digital world, with many vocal utterances seemingly processed by filters to lend them a menacing or machine-like tone.
- In Hard Times he seems not to be directing his attack against machinery but against what Carlyle would have seen as a machine-like mentality.
- He also came to know and admire the machine-like designs of the artists and designers working at the Bauhaus school of art in Germany.
- Right after The Origin of Species was published, he wrote a whole book on the complex machine-like devices in orchid flowers.
- They have to be understood as human beings and separated out from the machine-like business systems.
- Some complained that the almost machine-like efficiency of his play made him boring to watch.
- If organisations and the individuals within them operated in a machine-like fashion, institutionalising best practice would be straightforward.
- There's something wonderfully machine-like about the operation.
- She had a machinelike way of going on about a topic, as though she were speaking to imbeciles.
- He conveyed a sort of dehumanized, machinelike approach.
- The mixture of nearly machinelike order and organic irregularities implies that intuition and reason are working simultaneously.
- The robots are realised beautifully, but they're also old-fashioned robots - so blocky and machine-like.
Synonyms automatic, unthinking, unemotional, unconscious, involuntary, instinctive, routine, matter-of-fact, habitual, inattentive |