Definition of Mechanize

1. Verb. Equip with armed and armored motor vehicles. "Mechanize armies"

Exact synonyms: Mechanise, Motorise, Motorize
Generic synonyms: Equip, Fit, Fit Out, Outfit
Derivative terms: Motorisation, Motor, Motorization

2. Verb. Make monotonous; make automatic or routine. "If your work becomes too mechanized, change jobs!"
Exact synonyms: Mechanise
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify

3. Verb. Make mechanical. "Mechanize the procedure"
Exact synonyms: Mechanise
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Dehumanise, Dehumanize
Derivative terms: Mechanisation, Mechanisation, Mechanization, Mechanization

Definition of Mechanize

1. v. t. To cause to be mechanical.

Definition of Mechanize

1. Verb. To equip something with machinery. ¹

2. Verb. To equip a military unity with tanks and other armed vehicles. ¹

3. Verb. To make something routine, automatic or monotonous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mechanize

1. [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mechanize

mechanised
mechanises
mechanising
mechanism
mechanism-based inhibitor
mechanisms
mechanist
mechanistic
mechanistic school
mechanistically
mechanists
mechanizability
mechanizable
mechanization
mechanizations
mechanize (current term)
mechanized
mechanized cavalry
mechanized infantry
mechanizer
mechanizers
mechanizes
mechanizing
mechano-
mechano-gated
mechanobullous disease
mechanocardiography
mechanochemical
mechanochemistry
mechanocyte

Literary usage of Mechanize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook in the History of Modern Elementary Education: With Emphasis on by Samuel Chester Parker (1912)
"Pestalozzi desired to mechanize instruction. — With Pestalozzi this principle was bound up with his desire to mechanize instruction. ..."

2. A Textbook in the History of Modern Elementary Education: With Emphasis on by Samuel Chester Parker (1912)
"Pestalozzi desired to mechanize instruction. — With Pestalozzi this principle was bound up with his desire to mechanize instruction. ..."

3. Principles and Methods of Teaching Arithmetic by James Robert Overman (1920)
"... and centers the attention on the abstract fact or process being repeated, and so it will undoubtedly fix and mechanize in the shortest possible time. ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"383. mechanize (mek'anïz), vt; prêt, and pp. mechanized, ppr. mechanising. ... Our European mechanize™ are a sect of boundless diffusion, activity, ..."

5. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1882)
"It is said we should not mechanize knowledge. Why not, when the knowledge is mechanical? It is a sign of a weak mind when the child cannot learn, ..."

6. The Art of Study: A Manual for Teachers and Students of the Science and the by Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1900)
"l Many attempts have been made by distinguished men to mechanize ... The attempt to mechanize instruction is part of the monstrous error that free minds can ..."

7. Principles of Educational Practice by Paul Klapper (1912)
"Although repetition is an obvious essential in the process of habituation, it is nevertheless neglected in teaching which seeks to mechanize knowledge or ..."

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