Meaning

7 senses
  1. Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.

  2. One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals.

  3. A robot or mechanical creature.

  4. A mechanical engineer.

  5. An instance of equipment failure.

  6. A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.

  7. (archaic)A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.

Examples

55 sentences
  1. Tom studied mechanical engineering in college.

  2. Tom is a mechanical engineering student.

  3. Tom has a degree in mechanical engineering.

  4. I have a degree in mechanical engineering.

  5. Tom is studying to be a mechanical engineer.

Origin

From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.

From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.

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Forms

plural: mechanicals
Singularmechanical
Pluralmechanicals

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
camera-ready artwork:pasteup

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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