machinelike

[ muh-sheen-lahyk ]

/ məË?Ê?inËŒlaÉªk /

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adjective

like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.

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Origin of machinelike

First recorded in 1690â€“1700; machine + -like

Words nearby machinelike

machine gun, machine head, machine intelligence, machine language, machine learning, machinelike, machine moulding, machine pistol, machine, political, machine politics, machine-readable

How to use machinelike in a sentence

The only fault to find with these garments is their machinelike cut.
The Complete Bachelor|Walter Germain
Even that, however, in a person whose machinelike attitude towards her provoked her resentment, was noticeable.
The Tempting of Tavernake|E. Phillips Oppenheim
The place was set on fire with help of machinelike bicycle pumps with which many of the soldiers were furnished.
Current History, A Monthly Magazine|New York Times
Its huge multiple eyes stared with machinelike preoccupation at the world.
The Red Dust|Murray Leinster

It was super-machinelike, and it helped to crush out the glimmering bit of soul that was all that was left him from former life.
Martin Eden|Jack London

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