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AUTOMATIZE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they automatize ... he / she / it automatizes
Past simple: automatized
-ing form: automatizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make automatic or control or operate automatically
Example:
automate the movement of the robot
Synonyms:
automate; automatise; automatize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "automatize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "automatize"):
semi-automatise; semi-automatize (make semiautomatic)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
automatic (operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Synonyms:
automatise; automatize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "automatize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
automatic (resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine)
automaton (a mechanism that can move automatically)
automaton (someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way)