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Definition of Machinelike
1. Adjective. Resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine. "Machinelike efficiency"
Similar to: Mechanical
Derivative terms: Automatize, Automaton
Definition of Machinelike
1. Adjective. Resembling a machine ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Machinelike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machinelike
Literary usage of Machinelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1916)
"... and reasoning becomes a machinelike calculating process which frees the
imagination where its action is not essential and thus increases the power of ..."
2. The Psychology of Number and Its Applications to Methods of Teaching Arithmetic by James Alexander McLellan, John Dewey (1905)
"... not responsible for the machinelike movements, any more than " words" are
responsible for the machinelike movements in mere rote learning. ..."
3. The Psychology of Number and Its Applications to Methods of Teaching Arithmetic by James Alexander McLellan, John Dewey (1895)
"The early use of "figures" is not the cause of the baldly mechanical " method of
symbols " ; the figures are not responsible for the machinelike movements, ..."
4. The Dynamics of Living Matter by Jacques Loeb (1906)
"I have found pelagic larvae of fish which reacted in just as machinelike a manner
to light as caterpillars or Crustaceans; but in adult fish, ..."
5. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"machinelike fools! The refined joy of planting shells in the midst of the other
battery's formation would appear a little thing when the infantry came ..."
6. How We Think by John Dewey (1910)
"... not a machinelike, ready-made apparatus to be turned indifferently and at will
upon all subjects, as a lantern may throw its light as it happens upon ..."
7. Contributions to the Bacteriology of the Oyster by Woods Hutchinson, Hollis Godfrey, Rhode Island (State) Commissioners of shell-fisheries, Lester Angell Round (1914)
"... by the laws of cause and effect and whose conduct can be predicted with the
dull and uninteresting certainty of the machinelike male creature, ..."
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