mechanical

Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.archaic

• Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, Is in base durance and contagious prison, Haled thither by most mechanical and dirty hand.
• all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.

Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).

• mechanical engineering

Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).

• mechanical dictionary

Done by machine.

• mechanical task

Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.

• mechanical arm

As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.figuratively

• a mechanical reply to a question

Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.

• The pianist was too mechanical.

Handy with machines.informal

• Why don't you ask Joe to fix it? He's very mechanical.

Relating to the mechanics of a game.

• the mechanical aspects of a trading card game

Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.

• Since we are dealing with copy in paste-up form, we are now concerned with the preparation and assembly of elements suitable for camera-ready copy, positioned on the mechanical according to the rough layout supplied.
• We'll start with a simple mechanical for a standard 7" x 10" ad, using one block of copy, some display type, and one picture.

One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals.

• Rude mechanicals must know their place in a horsey army.

A robot or mechanical creature.

• Is it a mechanical, or a man in a clockwork suit?
• Mechanicals arose when advanced, organic societies somehow committed suicide, from war, degeneration, unimaginable things -- or retreated, from plain simple lack of interest in the tensions of the technological life.

A mechanical engineer.

• When the older courses had been separated from the literary curriculum eight years the civils, mechanicals and electricals had changed their relative positions four times.
• A membership campaign was carried on early in the year and quite a number of the new mechanicals were reached, as well as a number of the old men who had slipped by the wayside.

An instance of equipment failure.

• The pack are suffering mechanicals and pull up under a lamp post marking a right turn.
• Equipment back then was less capable than it is today, and we often had to deal with mechanical failures, also called mechanicals and the odd injury which we called 'bio-mechanicals'.

A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.

• Mechanicals within the organ need repair; the tonal resources and much of the voicing might well be expanded and updated.

A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.archaic

• Roland jumped on the horse and with herculean strength picked her up one armed and plopped her down in front of him. “I've had my fill of mechanicals of late. Hold on.”
• Above all things, I liked to hear about horseless carriages and self-powered mechanicals, but I'd settle for ghosts at a pinch.