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Mechanically

Mechanically \Me*chan"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a mechanical manner.

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mechanically

adv. In a mechanical manner.

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mechanically
  1. adv. in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism; "this door opens mechanically" [syn: automatically]

  2. in a machine-like manner; without feeling; "he smiled mechanically"

Usage examples of "mechanically".

He was only quite at ease when having poured several glasses of wine mechanically into his large mouth he felt a pleasant warmth in his body, an amiability toward all his fellows, and a readiness to respond superficially to every idea without probing it deeply.

Bidding farewell to the kindly shepherd I began to go down the hill mechanically, and I am still puzzled to know what instinct directed my steps towards that house, which common sense and fear also should have made me shun.

From the gray-leafed bush nearby where the flushed bullberries grew he fed himself, stripping it of every fruit and downing them mechanically, despite their measure of bitterness.

The heat was great, and my instinct made me go mechanically to the grating, the only place where I could lean on my elbows.

I reached down mechanically and started taking off my dungarees and slippers.

But as late as the twenty-eighth month echolalia was present in the highest degree in this very vigorous and intelligent child, for he would at times repeat mechanically the last word of every sentence spoken in his hearing, and even a single word, e.

This organ appeared to be a replica of the one outside the Rembrandt, with the same garish colour scheme, multi-coloured canopy and identically dressed puppets dancing at the end of their elasticized strings, although this machine was clearly inferior, mechanically and musically, to the Rembrandt one.

An uncommon quiet settled over the courtroom as Janice awkwardly sidestepped her way to the aisle and, the blood surging and pounding in her head, mechanically made her way towards the gate in the railings, each step of her wavering progress seemingly energized by an inner force beyond her command or comprehension.

There was nothing innovative, not mechanically, about Equinox or her crew.

I knew all this, but there are times when a man acts mechanically as I had done, unfortunately.

Her pupils remained miotic, suggesting her brain was getting enough oxygen, but her heart stayed electrically and mechanically still.

Round-shouldered, with nubby, nailless fingers, they paused and groped mechanically at instrument dials and nobs, raising and lowering the rods in and out of the pool below them.

Russian that the conventions of pornography and sexology could not be mechanically translated into it, so coloured is it by peculiarly Russian social and mental traits.

He kept shaking his head mechanically with a queer, numb smile and repeating in a weak, hollow monotone that they were not coming for him, not for good old Aarfy, no sirree, striving to convince himself that this was so even as heavy footsteps raced up the stairs and pounded across the landing, even as fists beat on the door four times with a deafening, inexorable force.

It was still raining fast, and the mules passing close by me, I placed my hand mechanically upon the neck of one of them, and following the slow pace of the animals I re-entered Rimini without the slightest notice being taken of me, even by the drivers of the mules.