Crossword clues for automatons
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Automaton \Au*tom"a*ton\, n.; pl. L. Automata, E. Automatons. [L. fr. Gr. ?, neut. of ? self-moving; ? self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. ? to strive. See Mean, v. i.]
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Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
--Huxley.So great and admirable an automaton as the world.
--Boyle.These living automata, human bodies.
--Boyle. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
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Wikipedia
Automatons is a 2006 black-and-white horror film about a war against robots. The movie was made under the working title Death to the Automatons. Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, and Brenda Cooney star. John Levene, Don Wood and Executive Producer Larry Fessenden have supporting roles. The film was directed by James Felix McKenney. The tagline was, "Men started this war. The machines will finish it."
Automatons is the second solo album by Svoy. It was originally released in Japan August 19, 2009, on historic P-Vine Records/ Blues Interactions. U.S./International release followed on November 2, 2010, on Sixteenth Republic Records.
Automatons expands upon artist's signature diverse sound by simultaneously paying tribute to his broad scope of musical influences and the sonic language of so-called "processed humanity". Svoy created 15 new selections of music and lyrics (including original cover of the Bee Gees' classic " Lonely Days" and an excerpt from "Silentium!", a poem by Fyodor Tyutchev). Two songs on Automatons were written and performed in collaboration with Adam Levy (multi platinum-selling songwriter/singer/guitarist for Tracy Chapman, Amos Lee and Norah Jones' Handsome Band), as well as Ilya Lagutenko (frontman/leader of Russia's superstar rock band Mumiy Troll, MTV Award winner, legendary multi-hit songwriter/singer/actor, whose acting credits include " Night Watch" (2005), international blockbuster by director Timur Bekmambetov (" Wanted", 2008; " Wanted 2", 2011).
Album's lead single "Beautiful Thing" reached #69 on the Billboard Japan Hot TOP 100 Airplay and #82 on Billboard Japan Hot 100 Singles chart. Besides remaining in top 40 and 100 airplay charts of numerous major Japanese radio networks for over 8 weeks, the song peaked at #3 on Alpha Station FM Kyoto 89.4's TOP 40 Overseas Chart. Also in 2009, Automatons reached #100 on the Billboard Japan Top Independent Albums and Singles chart.
In February, 2011, the album and its title track received two nominations at The 10th Independent Music Awards in Best Dance/Electronica Album and Best Dance/Electronica Song categories, winning in the latter category in March, 2011. 10th Independent Music Awards judging panel included Seal, Fall Out Boy, Portishead, McCoy Tyner, Counting Crows, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Suzanne Vega, Jesse Harris, Tom Waits, Aimee Mann, Jonatha Brooke among other notable artists and music industry professionals.
In July 2011, it was announced that Automatons also won The 10th Independent Music Awards' Vox Populi (fan-based portion of the annual awards) in both Best Dance/Electronica Song and Best Dance/Electronica Album categories.
Usage examples of "automatons".
But it would have been worse if I hadn't released my Viper automatons.
Now, have your men ready to supervise the transfer of the Viper automatons to the cargo shuttles.
The initial quick in and out had been expanded and expanded again until the hard, hand-chosen warriors of yore became a group of near automatons.
Experience had taught them that the automatons reacted with reliable precision but much too slowly.
He couldn't get excited about an attack on automatons after having been thru many a fierce fight.
Recalling his remaining automatons, Roger sent out a shielding screen, against which the defenders of their planet raged in impotent fury.
Behind the man, as if attending him, were two of the sickle-handed automatons of iron.
Above him, in the hills, and beyond and beyond, there were only regul automatons, that drew minerals from the earth and provided regul Kesrith its reason for existence.
But they must be removed from the path of the human advance or the mri would continue like automatons to dash themselves to death against the inevitable.
Jacob Philadelphia made a good living with his automatons, and they didn't require a whole lot of effort from him.
Over the course of his career he amassed an enormous collection of automatons.
Forgive me, but everything your brother knows about automatons—or any other subject for that matter—could be printed very comfortably on this wine cork.
Were there a great many automatons in the house when you were growing up?
If I were to become Count, it would certainly be disastrous for d'Armand Automatons—and the good of the family is, after all, paramount.
Nontheless, family came first—and if Cousin Roger wanted the financial benefits of d'Armand Automatons, he would have to shoulder some of the responsibility.