I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an automatic weapon (= an automatic gun )
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He was shot 120 times with automatic weapons.
automatic pilot
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Moving on automatic pilot, she tidied the room.
automatic transmission
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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It came out regularly, and an illusion grew that the process was almost automatic .
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In many areas where congressional assent is necessary, it is almost automatic .
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It is possible to specify the various style elements within the word processor file so making the document generation process almost automatic .
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Moreover, the questionnaire permits the almost automatic dissemination of information in directory format, and it is then a saleable product.
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But indulgence in this small personal ritual was almost automatic .
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Historians have since described and explained how torture was a loathsome, almost automatic feature of colonial wars.
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The almost automatic acceptance of those same initiatives by the legislature as a whole is assured by the formidable mechanisms of party.
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The practice of personal hygiene is an almost automatic daily activity.
fully
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It had a spring suspension axle for which a fully automatic tracking axle system is also available.
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After the war, semi-and fully automatic rifles were developed.
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The Slotopal On-Line Analyser from Schloetter is for fully automatic titrations of plating bath constituents and other processes.
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Honda also designed the four-wheel-drive system, which engages only when needed and is fully automatic .
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Our fully automatic video cameras are so easy to use - just point the camera and press the record button!
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If there was a drawback, it was the rate of fire on fully automatic .
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Such control is often fully automatic .
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This pump-house was fully automatic and the latest example of technological design.
■ NOUN
access
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Nor, critics pointed out, did it give blacks automatic access to home ownership in previously white areas.
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If the link is being removed, the user will no longer have automatic access to your modules.
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A module password must be supplied if you do not have automatic access to the module.
control
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With its automatic controls and large capacity, it can cook an entire meal for all the family all on its own.
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The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.
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This includes a minute minder facility and provides full automatic control of the main oven.
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The advent of automatic control has come in three stages and has spawned three nearly metaphysical changes in human culture.
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Pallets may be placed away either under manual or automatic control according to the control system chosen.
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The avalanche effects of employing automatic control in the production of goods were not all obvious.
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Even when practising variants it is good to finish by practising the words in a frame - it helps in getting automatic control .
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Down on the factory floor, automatic control had the expected virtue of moderating high-powered energy sources as mentioned earlier.
door
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Treacly piped music from inside slopped out each time the automatic doors opened.
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Even the station quays were air-conditioned, closed off from the tunnels by special automatic doors so that no energy was wasted.
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He says, we have lifts, automatic doors , disabled fitting rooms and shopping trolleys.
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A gush of heat by the automatic doors .
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An automatic door will be provided for the disabled.
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There was a pause, the automatic doors unclenched.
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After a moment the automatic doors opened, and the crew climbed out.
gearbox
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The advanced automatic gearbox available on 1.4-litre models is superior to most cars in its class in offering four forward speeds.
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Why didn't kidnappers choose automatic gearboxes ?
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It offers an automatic gearbox-one of the new generation of electronic designs which tries to be very clever.
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Power assisted steering is standard on all models equipped with automatic gearboxes .
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These include fitting an automatic gearbox , hand controlled brakes and accelerator, extending seat runners and moving foot pedals.
pilot
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I leapt out of bed and dressed on automatic pilot .
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We fool ourselves by thinking we can go on automatic pilot , that we can survive by going through the motions.
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By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin.
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What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.
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If she could get to Tottenham Court Road tube station, she could get home almost on automatic pilot .
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I was on automatic pilot , doing what I do best.
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She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself.
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I've been on automatic pilot for 25 years.
pistol
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All these men were encumbered with their heavy loads and had only automatic pistols .
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Two of them are automatic pistols , caliber twenty-two, manufactured by High Standard.
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The man's face was white and mean and he was pointing an automatic pistol at Charles' chest.
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He will identify those two automatic pistols as weapons he test-fired at the Ballistics Lab in order to obtain exemplary rounds.
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Suddenly he pulled out a silver automatic pistol and fired a barrage at the driver's head.
response
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Or is it more akin to mechanics whereby a given stimulus produces an automatic response ?
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The oldest, the limbic system, directs our deep automatic responses .
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Whatever their origin, they are now highly controlled and automatic responses to this situation.
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Putting my hands and feet lightly on the controls was a completely automatic response by this time.
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Financial need, even on the part of a close relative, has apparently never been seen as a situation which required an automatic response .
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My heart went out to her, an instantaneous and automatic response .
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The mind must try to lull the body into the automatic response that has been instilled during practice.
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Shocked by the weird question I hang up, but I immediately regret my automatic response .
rifle
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They are holding automatic rifles and wearing steel helmets.
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After the war, semi-and fully automatic rifles were developed.
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It said villagers were forming detachments, many of them equipped with automatic rifles and home-made explosives.
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Walking in front of Converse was a little man called the Caporal who carried a Browning automatic rifle decorated with hibiscus.
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He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle .
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They rested on a bank, automatic rifles stacked beside them.
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He heard the fluttering of bullets before the fast slap-slap-slap of an automatic rifle .
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The police in Baku carry automatic rifles .
right
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Except unusually, receiving personal care from relatives is not seen by either party as an automatic right .
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In a constitutional democracy, there are individuals whose status or office gives them the automatic right to be heard.
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We have no automatic right to Group work but we do try to be the preferred contractor.
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The bill also allows the Lord Chancellor to restrict the automatic right of appeal to the Court of Appeal.
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Additionally, there is no automatic right to adjust pleadings.
system
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The speeder froze in mid-air for just a moment, while its computers coped with the sudden assault on the automatic systems .
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This automatic system monitors the position, closure rate and altitude of nearby aircraft, identifying potentially threatening intruders.
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While not a fault tolerant machine or likely ever to be one, Dragon has automatic system recovery for fault resilience.
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The pilot maintained that he tried to pull up but automatic systems prevented that.
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Socially the public will not easily accept automatic systems .
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With an automatic system a few simple alterations to the style sheet and it's all done for you.
teller
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In 1979, there were only 1,200 automatic teller machines in Britain, compared with 17,500 now.
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In January 1996, McGill disappeared after withdrawing $ 50 from an automatic teller machine.
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Along the way, he stopped at a twenty-four-hour Citibank and checked his balance with the automatic teller .
train
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They are equipped with full cab signalling and automatic train protection to assist the drivers.
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He served on a number of government committees, including those on automatic train control and on railway electrification.
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The cars will be fully air-conditioned, and equipped with Marta's standard automatic train control system.
transmission
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The new company will market the transmissions but will subcontract the manufacture of the automatic transmission.
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Most of you probably will want automatic transmission , which adds another $ 975.
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Meanwhile, the Mondeo becomes the first Ford to use a new electronically-controlled four-speed automatic transmission system.
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A / C, dishwashers, automatic transmissions , frozen dinners, and liberal theologians.
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Yes, it had a heater and, what's more, you could even have air conditioning and automatic transmission .
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It did not have Powerglide automatic transmission .
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Grants Power steering, automatic transmissions , hand-controlled accelerator and brake and swivel seats are often required.
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It turns in very firmly, with surprising power response, when ordering the automatic transmission to think quickly.
weapon
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Its automatic weapons chatter nightly, and mortars crump in reply.
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Pepper spray is not automatic weapons fire.
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I kept hearing aircraft passing low overhead and sporadic gunfire from automatic weapons .
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At that point, small arms and automatic weapons opened up.
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As the protest grew, the troops came in with automatic weapons , armoured vehicles and teargas.
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One guy had a canteen on his hip which was shot off; it was automatic weapons .
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Shortly after 2 a. m., a large truck pulled up with 40 men with automatic weapons .
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A force of 70 gunmen opened fire on the compound with automatic weapons and grenade-launchers, according to presidential guard commander Maj.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on automatic pilot
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I wasn't really asleep - I was just kind of running on automatic pilot.
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I was on automatic pilot, doing what I do best.
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Tommy Blue was on automatic pilot.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Automatic lights had come on in various parts of the house.
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a camera with automatic focus
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A teacher's automatic reaction is to correct mistakes in language.
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Elizabeth immediately flew into a rage - her automatic response to any kind of criticism.
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It takes a while before this kind of work feels automatic .
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The camera has a 32mm glass lens, and its automatic shutter allows you to take photos in near-darkness without a flash.
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The merit system replaced automatic yearly pay raises.
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The soldiers lay on the highway with their automatic rifles beside them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An automatic scorecard tracks progress around the course.
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Complexity is also a feature of those real-life markets in which convergence also is neither swift nor automatic .
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Mode A is the identification mode, whilst Mode C is the automatic altitude reporting mode.
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The automatic transmission, an $ 815 stand-alone option in the tester, was nothing to brag about for smoothness of operation.
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The fall led to a five-tenths automatic deduction, and each foot out of bounds counted one-tenth of a point.
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The Soviet Union, in preparation for manned landings, then concentrated on landing automatic unmanned spacecraft on the lunar surface.
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Treacly piped music from inside slopped out each time the automatic doors opened.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Four automatics have been launched to complete the Corsa hatchback range, which replaced the Nova earlier this year.
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Giuliani said Kamal purchased the automatic in Florida at the end of January.
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Give any young egotist two shots of dope and an automatic and he will hold up the government mint.
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Somewhere below, angry serpents of stabilising jets hissed as automatics restored the balance.