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UK
/ɔːtˈɒmətən/
]
[ US /ɔˈtɑməˌtɑn/ ]
[ US /ɔˈtɑməˌtɑn/ ]
NOUN
- a mechanism that can move automatically
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someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
only an automaton wouldn't have noticed
How To Use automaton In A Sentence
- Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton. Condi a Waste of Time
- Rising slowly like an automaton, she made her way over to the counter and picked up the receiver.
- With billions in federal dough available for new KIPP stores and their chains of imitators, the plan is coming together to convert poor children to future-focused corpuscular automatons. Archive 2009-04-01
- The result is good rhythm,- the easy, loose-limbed walk of a human, not the precise and mincing steps of an automaton.
- The giant automaton let out its low blat sound as it stepped over Eva and Muthr swinging its long segmented arms. The Search For WondLa
- He goes through the mechanics of putting in the milk concentrate powder like an automaton, taking insane amounts of care not to spill a single drop of the powder from the bottles.
- Automatons, illiterates and indigents of every shape and size, don't stop but aid this cruel crusade participate in their own demise.
- Was the somnambulist an ‘automaton’ or what some French psychologists called an automate conscient?
- But for one man at least, the role of cheerless automaton seems to be palling.
- Russell, moving like an automaton, reached under the table and retrieved Nefret's gloves. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY