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# mechanical

«mechanical» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with machines or worked by machines, with moving…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (mechanical)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To do with machines or worked by machines, with moving parts like gears, levers and wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#m1)

2) Done without thinking, like a machine, out of habit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#m2)

3) Mechanical engineering: designing and building machines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and design lessons, mechanical toys use cams, gears and pulleys; a mechanical problem is something wrong with a machine. In everyday life, a car breakdown may be a mechanical fault. In writing, a mechanical answer is done without thought. Phrases: mechanical pencil, mechanical engineer, mechanical problem.

### examples

- The old clock has mechanical parts inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#x1)
- We built a mechanical toy with a cam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#x2)
- The bus stopped because of a mechanical problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#x3)
- My mechanical pencil never needs sharpening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#x4)
- She answered in a mechanical voice, as if she wasn't listening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#x5)
- A mechanical engineer designs machines and engines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#x6)
- The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/#x7)

### note

Adverb: mechanically. Related: mechanic (a person who fixes cars and machines), mechanism (the working parts).

### In the corpora

- [Mechanical clocks spread in Europe from about 1300, and China built a great water-driven clock tower in the 1090s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/62-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses/20/)
- [Europe's first mechanical clocks, about 700 years ago, often had one hand or none at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/10/)
- [Early mechanical clocks in Europe, about 700 years ago, often had only an hour hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mechanical» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mechanical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.