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Definitions: Mechanized |
MechanizedAdjective1. Equipped with machinery; "a mechanized factory". 2. Using vehicles; "motorized warfare". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mechanized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | Term descriptive of a mine that has a high percentage of machinery for all steps of mining and handling mineral product, from the face to the mineworking place, and on to the tipple or treatment plant. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| MERGE | English | Mechanized retrieval for greater efficiency | Computing |
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Synonyms: MechanizedSynonyms: mechanised (adj), motorized (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mechanized |
| English words defined with "mechanized": mechanise, mechanised, mechanize, mechanized cavalry ♦ unmechanised, unmechanized. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mechanized": coal-preparation shift, Conrad machine, Conventional agriculture ♦ Dowty roofmaster ♦ farm mechanic, FARM-EQUIPMENT MECHANIC I ♦ Lowden drier ♦ machine mining, mechanized collection of household refuse, mechanized dredge, mechanized equipment, mechanized output, mechanized pole-line, mechanized trail, mining shield, MULTI-OPERATION-FORMING-MACHINE OPERATOR I ♦ powered supports ♦ roof drill ♦ shrinkage stoping, sieve shakers ♦ TEACHER, PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED, turning over and packing shift. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mechanized": mechanize ♦ unmechanized. (references) |
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Screenplays | Something happens to their insides! They become immunized, mechanized, air-conditioned and hydromatic. (Love in the Afternoon; writing credit: Claude Anet; I.A.L. Diamond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Advance and Be Mechanized (1967) Mechanized Patrolling (1943) | |
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 | Early mechanized level party with hand-velocipede Observer riding ahead Level party of W.H. Burger.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | First order leveling Mechanized leveling with velocipede Party of M. E. Lutz.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Showing how line of sight clears recorder with inclined tripod Mechanized leveling with velocipede Party of J. D. Crichton.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Mechanized level crew moving up Level party of Emerson E. Jones.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | "South China Sea . . . Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship U.S.S. Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard from a small craft. The refugees will be transferred later by mechanized landing craft (LCM) to the freighter Transcolorado." By JO1 Mike McGougan, April 3, 1975.Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1947-. |  | Tanker trains are constantly pulling out from the Quaker State and Pennzoil refineries at Oil City, Pennsylvania, with high-quality lubricants for the fighting men of America to keep the mechanized forces of war in full-time operation.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Tanks such as these store the power that moves the huge mechanized armies of today. Many gallons of the high-grade lubricants necessary for tanks, guns and planes are to be found in these tanks.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 7th Cavalry Brigade mechanized, Fort Knox, Ky., July 1st, 1938, Major General Daniel Van Voorhis, commanding.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 68th Field Artillery mechanized, Fort Knox, Ky., June 14th, 1938, Colonel Marshall Magruder, commanding.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 13th U.S. Cavalry Mechanized, Fort Knox, Ky., June 16th, 1938, Col. C.L. Scott command'g.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Factory; manufacturing; manufacture; industry; industrial; automated; factory-made; industry; industrialized; machine-made; manufactured; manufacturing; mechanical; mechanized; smokestack; streamlined; assembly line. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The western region is relatively heavily mechanized. (references) | |
Demand and sale for wheat harvester, will decrease since mechanized harvesting has been popularized in major wheat producing regions. (references) | ||
Currently, only 50 percent of Argentina's operations are mechanized, for this reason the Secretariat for Industry is promoting greater use of technology. (references) | ||
Economic History | Poland | The largest share of 2000 Polish toy imports were mechanized military toys, construction ("building block") toys, dolls, doll accessories and toys representing animals. (references) |
Nigeria | A major effort to promote large-scale mechanized agriculture in the 1970's and the early 1980's failed largely due to high input costs, poor on-farm productivity and lack of support from the government of Nigeria. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The regulated activities include banking, investment banking, stock-broking and finance; insurance; air transportation; coastal shipping; energy and power; lotteries; large-scale mechanized gem mining; "sensitive" industries such as military hardware, dangerous drugs and currency; and the establishment of local branches of foreign companies. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Nearby elements of the army's 46th counterguerrilla battalion (Tibu) and 5th mechanized group (Cucuta), as well as police, did not intervene. (references) |
Colombia | In December the authorities arrested army Colonel Victor Matamoros and Captain Juan Carlos Fernandez, the former commander and the former intelligence director of the Fifth Mechanized Group, respectively. (references) | |
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| "Mechanized" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 70.59% of the time. "Mechanized" is used about 34 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 70.59% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 17.65% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mechanized": become mechanized ♦ mechanized bakery ♦ mechanized brigade ♦ mechanized cavalry ♦ mechanized collection of household refuse ♦ mechanized dredge ♦ mechanized equipment ♦ mechanized infantry ♦ mechanized rifle brigade ♦ mechanized trail. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
confederate mechanized son veteran | 4 |
mechanized infantry | 4 |
death mechanized | 4 |
craft landing mechanized | 4 |
1st 25th 5th div infantry infantry mechanized | 3 |
mechanized | 3 |
cavalry mechanized scv | 3 |
cavalry mechanized | 2 |
4th division infantry mechanized | 2 |
assault exploration mechanized | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "mechanized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 机械化 (mechanisation, mechanise, mechanised, mechanization, mechanize, Mechanizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | motoriseret skraber (mechanized dredge), mekaniseret skraber (mechanized dredge), mekaniseret plantning (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), mekaniseret plantedyrkning (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), mekaniseret landbrug (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), mekaniseret fodringsbånd (mechanized belt, mechanized bunk feeder), maskinudsæd (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), maskinplantning (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), spor til terrængående køretøj (mechanized trail), pilkemaskine (mechanized pole-line), jordafgravning med maskiner (mechanized excavation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | motorisatie van de landbouw (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), motordreg (mechanized dredge), mechanische ontgraving (mechanized excavation), mechanisch zaaien (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), mechanisch aangedreven hengel (mechanized pole-line), machinaal zaaien (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), machinaal poten (mechanized planting), machinaal planten (mechanized planting), machinaal boekhouden (machine accounting, mechanized accounting), gemechaniseerde voerband (mechanized belt, mechanized bunk feeder), gemechaniseerde voeding (mechanized feeding), gemechaniseerde legnesten (mechanized laying nests), gemechaniseerde landbouw (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), gemechaniseerd poten (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mekanisoitu munintapesä (mechanized laying nests), mekaaninen kylvö (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), pumppuhara (mechanized dredge), koneonki (mechanized pole-line), konekylvö (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), koneistettu maatalous (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), koneistettu maanviljely (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), koneellistettu ruokkija (mechanized belt, mechanized bunk feeder), koneellistettu ruokinta (mechanized feeding), koneellistettu maatalous (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), koneellistettu maanviljely (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), koneellinen istutus (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mécanisai, mécanisées, mécanisée, mécanisâmes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mechanisierte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλάμι με μηχανισμό (mechanized pole-line), μηχανικό φύτεμα (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), μηχανική καλλιέργεια (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), μηχανική σπορά (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), μηχανική μεταφύτευση φυτών (mechanized planting), μηχανική μεταφύτευση (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), μηχανοκίνητη δράγα (mechanized dredge), μηχανοποιημένη χορήγηση τροφής (mechanized feeding), μηχανοποιημένες φωλιές ωοτοκίας (mechanized laying nests), μηχανοποιημένο καλαμίδι (mechanized pole-line), ποτίστρα με κυλιόμενη ταινία (mechanized belt, mechanized bunk feeder), πίστα για όχημα παντός εδάφους (mechanized trail), δράγα με μηχανισμό (mechanized dredge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ממוכן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gépesített (mechanize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | motocoltura (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), mangiatoia a tappeto meccanico (mechanized belt, mechanized bunk feeder), meccanografia contabile (machine accounting, mechanized accounting), meccanizzare (become mechanized, machinize, mechanise, mechanize), pista (career, clue, course, manege, racetrack, ride, ring, road, route, runway, scent, slope, speedway, strip, track, trail, way), piantagione meccanica (mechanized planting), piantagione a macchina (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), nidi meccanizzati (mechanized laying nests), trapiantato a macchina (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), rimozione meccanica di materiali (mechanized excavation), contabilità meccanografica (machine accounting, mechanized accounting), semina meccanizzata (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), lenza da canna meccanica (mechanized pole-line), lenza a canna meccanizzata (mechanized pole-line), foraggiamento meccanico (mechanized feeding), draga meccanizzata (mechanized dredge), Divisione delle truppe meccanizzate e leggere (Division for Mechanized Troops). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 機械仕掛け (mechanical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きかいじかけ (mechanical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기계화하는 (mechanised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | echanizedmay motocultura (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), manjedoura de tapete mecânico (mechanized belt, mechanized bunk feeder), transplantação mecanizada (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), sementeira mecanizada (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), plantação mecanizada (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), plantação mecânica (mechanized planting), ninhos de postura mecanizados (mechanized laying nests), linha de vara mecanizada (mechanized pole-line), draga mecanizada (mechanized dredge), alimentação mecanizada (mechanized feeding). (various references) motomecanizat, mecanizat. (various references) автоматизировать автоматизтрованный. (various references) pekara sa mehanizacijom (mechanized bakery). (various references) motorizado (motorized, powered). (various references) musselfiskebåt med vinsch (mechanized dredge), mekaniskt utfodringsband (mechanized belt, mechanized bunk feeder), mekaniserat jordbruk (mechanized agriculture, mechanized farming), mekaniserade värpreden (mechanized laying nests), mekaniserad utfodring (mechanized feeding), mekaniserad skrapa (mechanized dredge), mekaniserad plantering (mechanized planting, mechanized transplanting), maskinsådd (mechanical sowing, mechanized seeding), spinnspölina (mechanized pole-line), pilkmaskin (mechanized pole-line), "juksamaskin". (various references) механізований (power driven), бронетанковий (armored, armoured, panzer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "mechanized": unmechanized. (additional references) | |
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"Mechanized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mechanise, mechaniz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mechanized" (pronounced me"kunī'zd) |
| 6 | -k u n ī' z d | balkanized. |
| 5 | -u n ī' z d | agonized, aluminized, antagonized, carbonized, colonized, demonized, disorganized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, homogenized, humanized, immunized, lionized, nonunionized, organized, patronized, reorganized, revolutionized, scrutinized, synchronized, unionized, unorganized, urbanized. |
| 4 | -n ī' z d | ironized, modernized, recognized, unrecognized, westernized. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, amortized, analyzed, anglicized, annualized, apologized, authorized, brutalized, burglarized, capitalized, capsized, caramelized, catalyzed, categorized, centralized, characterized, circumcised, civilized, collateralized, collectivized, colorized, commercialized, compromised, computerized, containerized, creolized, criminalized, criticized, crystallized, customized, decentralized, demilitarized, demobilized, democratized, demoralized, denationalized, denuclearized, departmentalized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, destabilized, digitized, disenfranchised, downsized, dramatized, editorialized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, equalized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, heroized, hospitalized, hydrolyzed, hypnotized, hypothesized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, improvised, industrialized, internalized, itemized, jeopardized, legalized, legitimized, liberalized, localized, magnetized, marginalized, materialized, maximized, memorialized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, mobilized, monopolized, motorized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, normalized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, paralyzed, pasteurized, penalized, personalized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, professionalized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, radicalized, randomized, rationalized, realized, reauthorized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scandalized, securitized, sensitized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, standardized, sterilized, stigmatized, stylized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, symbolized, sympathized, synthesized, tantalized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, trivialized, unamortized, unauthorized, undercapitalized, undersized, underutilized, unexercised, unrealized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, utilized, vandalized, vaporized, visualized, winterized. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-i-m-n-z" | |
-1 letter: mechanize. | |
-2 letters: echidnae, machined. | |
-3 letters: chained, echidna, endemic, headmen, machine, menaced. | |
-4 letters: achene, aedine, aidmen, anemic, chaine, chimed, chined, cinema, daimen, decane, demean, dezinc, eczema, edenic, haemic, haemin, iceman, icemen, inched, maiden, manche, meanie, mediae, median, medina, menace, miched, minced, niched, zechin, zinced. | |
-5 letters: ached, acned, adeem, admen, aimed, amend, amice, amide, amine, amnic, anime. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-i-m-n-z" | |
+1 letter: merchandize. | |
+2 letters: merchandized, merchandizes, unmechanized. | |
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