Mechanize

Definitions: Mechanize

Mechanize

Verb

1. Equip with armed and armored motor vehicles; "mechanize armies".

2. Make monotonous; make automatic or routine; "If your work becomes too mechanized, change jobs!".

3. Make mechanical; "mechanize the procedure:.

Date "mechanize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)

Note: Mechanize \Mech"an*ize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Mechanized; present participle verb or noun Mechanizing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Mechanize

Synonyms: mechanise (v), motorise (v), motorize (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Mechanize

English words defined with "mechanize": Mechanizing. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mechanize": lexicographer. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Mechanize [CD-SINGLE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" -- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm! Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took, And catalogued each garment in a book. Now, from her leafy covert when she cries: "Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise And scan the list, and say without compassion: "Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion." Sigismund Smith
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"Mechanize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Mechanize" is used about 6 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)	50%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	50%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

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 "mechanize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		motorizoj (motorize), mekanizoj. (various references)

Arabic		‏مكنن, ‏جعله آليا, ‏أنتج بالماكينات. (various references)

Bulgarian		механизирам. (various references)

Chinese		机械化 (mechanisation, mechanise, mechanised, mechanization, mechanized, Mechanizing), 機械化 . (various references)

Czech		mechanizovat (automate). (various references)

Farsi		مکانیره کردن (Mechanization), باوساءل مکانیکی کارکردن . (various references)

Finnish		mekanisoida, koneellistaa. (various references)

French		motoriser, mécaniser. (various references)

German		mechanisieren. (various references)

Greek		μηχανοποιώ. (various references)

Hebrew		למכן (automate). (various references)

Hungarian		gépesített (mechanized), gépesít (motorize, to mechanize, to robotize), elgépiesít (to mechanize). (various references)

Italian		meccanizzare (become mechanized, machinize, mechanise). (various references)

Korean		기계화하십시요 (mechanise). (various references)

Pig Latin		echanizemay

Portuguese		mecanização (mechanization). (various references)

Romanian		mecaniza. (various references)

Russian		механизировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mehanizovati. (various references)

Spanish		mecanizar (machine, work on a machine tool). (various references)

Swedish		mekanisera. (various references)

Thai		ใช้เครื่องจักร. (various references)

Turkish		motorize etmek (motorize), makineleştirmek (automate, dehumanize), makinalaşmak. (various references)

Turkmen		mehanizmleзdirmek (r ). (various references)

Ukranian		механізувати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mechanize": mechanized, mechanizer, mechanizers, mechanizes. (additional references)
	Words containing "mechanize": unmechanized. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mechanize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Machaire, mechanise, mechaniz, Mechanus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mechanize" (pronounced me"kunī'z)
5	-k u n ī' z	balkanize.
4	-u n ī' z	agonize, aluminize, antagonize, carbonize, colonize, communize, demonize, disorganize, euthanize, galvanize, harmonize, hellenize, homogenize, humanize, ionize, lionize, organize, patronize, reorganize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize, womanize.
3	-n ī' z	fraternize, immunize, ironize, modernize, recognize, westernize.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-m-n-z"
	-2 letters: machine.
	-3 letters: achene, anemic, chaine, cinema, eczema, haemic, haemin, iceman, icemen, manche, meanie, menace, zechin.
	-4 letters: amice, amine, amnic, anime, azine, chain, chime, china, chine, enema, hance, hemic, hemin, hence, mache, maize, manic, miche, minae, mince, mizen, niche, niece, nizam.
	-5 letters: ache, acme, acne, ahem, amen, amie, amin, cain, came, cane, cham, chez, chia.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-m-n-z"
	+1 letter: chimpanzee, mechanized, mechanizer, mechanizes.
	+2 letters: chimpanzees, mechanizers, merchandize.
	+3 letters: mechanizable, merchandized, merchandizes, unmechanized.
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