Definition

1. Verb:
   • To make mechanical or automatic: To introduce machinery or automation into a process, replacing human labor or manual operation.
   • To make monotonous or routine: To cause an activity to become repetitive, automatic, and lacking in thought or creativity.
   • To equip with motorized vehicles: To supply an army or unit with armed and armored motor vehicles.

Usage and Examples

• Verb (To make mechanical):

  • The factory aims to mechanise the assembly line to increase production speed.
  • We need to mechanise the data entry process to reduce errors.

• Verb (To make monotonous):

  • Repetitive tasks can mechanise the mind, stifling creativity.
  • He felt his job had become mechanised, requiring no original thought.

• Verb (To equip with vehicles):

  • The military decided to mechanise the infantry division for greater mobility.

Advanced Usage

• "to mechanise a procedure": To automate a specific set of steps or a method.

  • The company plans to mechanise the procedure for quality checks.

• Passive Voice: Often used to describe a state of being automated or made routine.

  • The farming industry has been largely mechanised over the last century.

Variants and Related Words

• Mechanize: The preferred spelling in American English. It has the same meanings as 'mechanise'.
• Mechanisation (n) / Mechanization (n): The process or result of making something mechanical.
  • The mechanisation of agriculture transformed rural life.
• Mechanised (adj) / Mechanized (adj): Describes something that has been equipped with machinery or made automatic.
  • a mechanised infantry unit; a mechanised production process.

Synonyms

• Automate: To operate by automation.
• Motorize: To equip with a motor or motors (often used for vehicles, similar to the military sense).

Antonyms

• Manualize: To make manual (rarely used; more common antonyms are phrases).
• De-automate: To remove automation.

Related Phrases

• "become mechanised": To become automatic and unthinking.
  • The workers feared their roles would become mechanised and they would be replaced.
• "fully mechanised": Completely equipped with or converted to using machinery.
  • The fully mechanised harvest was completed in record time.

Verb

1. make mechanical
   • mechanize the procedure
2. make monotonous; make automatic or routine
   • If your work becomes too mechanized, change jobs!
3. equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
   • mechanize armies