automatic — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Tính từ

1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   self-operating

   Từ trái nghĩa

   manualnon-automatic

   Ví dụ

   The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   "But you know of the automatic card-player?" […] Carrados had heard more than once casual allusions to a wonderful mechanical contrivance that played cards with discrimination.

2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   instinctiveperfunctorythoughtlessPavlovian

   Từ trái nghĩa

   voluntary

   Ví dụ

   The reaction was automatic: flight!

   Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.

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   "I don't know why! Sometimes I feel like a girl! Sometimes a guy! I don't know why I feel that way! I just do! Always have! I can't remember not feeling this way! How do you explain something as natural and automatic to you as breathing?!"

3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

   Ví dụ

   Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.

4. Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

   Cách dùng

   • of a firearm such as a machine gun

   Ví dụ

   Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.

5. An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.

   Cách dùng

   • of a handgun

   Ví dụ

   The US Army adopted John Browning's M1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol).

   From a little hand-bag he extracted his automatic pistol, which he put upon the mantelpiece.

6. Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.

   Cách dùng

   • of a local variable

   Ví dụ

   Automatic variables are created on the stack. They are valid only from the point where they are declared to the end of the function.

7. Having one or more finite-state automata.

   Cách dùng

   • of a group

Danh từ

1. A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.

   Từ trái nghĩa

   manualmanual transmissionstandard transmissionstickstickshiftstick shift

   Ví dụ

   I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.

2. A semi-automatic pistol.

   Ví dụ

   The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.

   "I told him that if my automatic was not a spook-stopper, nothin' else would serve."

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   'The automatic under his pillow gave the lie to that statement.'

Tính từ

1. operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control

   Từ trái nghĩa

   manual

   Ví dụ

   automatic transmission

   a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts

2. resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   automatonlikemachinelikerobotlikerobotic

   Ví dụ

   an automatic ‘thank you’

   machinelike efficiency

3. without volition or conscious control

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   reflexreflexive

   Ví dụ

   the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light

   a reflex knee jerk

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   sneezing is reflexive

Danh từ

1. self-loading rifle capable of automatic fire

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   automatic riflemachine rifle

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   machine gunrifle

2. a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   automatic pistol

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   pistolhandgunside armshooting ironautomatic firearmautomatic gunautomatic weapon