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Definition: Automate |
AutomateVerb1. Make automatic; "automatize the production". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "automate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Synonyms: AutomateSynonyms: automatise (v), automatize (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Automate |
| Specialty definitions using "automate": ARC/INFO ♦ Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, Enterprise Resource Planning ♦ manufacturing execution system ♦ office automation ♦ Programmable Logic Controller ♦ RCC, REXXWARE ♦ screen scraper ♦ TIPS_II. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Automate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (automat, automaton, automoton, robot, vending machine). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Economic History | Bangladesh | An $80 million loan from the Asian Development Bank is being used to further develop and automate the capital market. (references) |
Singapore | At the same time, the Government provides incentives and assistance to firms to automate and invest in labor-reducing technology. (references) | |
Colombia | Colombia's ability to compete internationally will depend on the country's capability to modernize and automate its industrial infrastructure. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Automate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.14% of the time. "Automate" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 82.14% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "automate": automate network ♦ to automate. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "automate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | automatizoj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أتمت جعله أوتوماتيكيا, شغل أوتوماتيكيا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | автоматизирам (robotize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自动化 (automated, automation, automatise, automatize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | automatizovat, mechanizovat (mechanize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | automatisere (to automate), at automatisere hele den rullende transport paa en udvindingsetages hovedstraekning (to automate the main-road haulage on a single haulage horizon), mængde af processorenheder (automate network, set of processing units). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | automatiseren (to automate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aŭtomatizi, aŭtomatigi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خودکاربودن , بطورخودکارعمل کردن , بصورت خودکاردراوردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | automatisoida (automatize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | automatiser (automatize, to automate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | automatisieren (to automate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτοματοποιώ (to automate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | למכן (mechanize), לאטמט. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | automatizál (to automate), automata zár. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | automatizzare (to automate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자동"하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | outomatisá. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | automateay automatizar (to automate). (various references) автоматизировать (automates, automatize, computerize, mechanize). (various references) automatizovati. (various references) automatizar (to automate). (various references) automatisera (to automate). (various references) otomatikleştirmek, makineleştirmek (dehumanize, mechanize). (various references) автоматизувати (automatize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "automate": automated, automates. (additional references) | |
Words containing "automate": nonautomated, unautomated. (additional references) | |
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"Automate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astomate, atomata, atomate, atomite, Autogavea, Autokat, automatd, automoto, Autona, Autopartei, Autopaster, Autunite, eumobate, otomat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "automate" (pronounced ô"tumā't) |
| 5 | -t u m ā' t | glutamate, overestimate, underestimate. |
| 4 | -u m ā' t | acclimate, amalgamate, decimate. |
| 3 | -m ā' t | checkmate, classmate, dichromate, inmate, playmate, primate, roommate, schoolmate, shipmate, stalemate, teammate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-m-o-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: mutate, outate, outeat. | |
-3 letters: matte, motet, motte, totem. | |
-4 letters: atma, atom, auto, mate, matt, maut, meat, meou, meta, moat, mote, mott, moue, mute, mutt, tame, tate, taut, team, teat, toea, tome, tote, tout. | |
-5 letters: ama, amu, ate, att, eat, eau, emu, eta, mae, mat, met, moa, mot, mut, oat, out, tae, tam, tao, tat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-m-o-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: automated, automates. | |
+2 letters: automatize. | |
+3 letters: automatable, automatized, automatizes, portmanteau, unautomated. | |
+4 letters: atheromatous, augmentation, nonautomated, portmanteaus, portmanteaux, ultramontane. | |
+5 letters: argumentation, augmentations, exanthematous, outmanipulate, permutational, semiautomatic, tetradynamous, ultramontanes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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