English Dictionary

mechanical

/mɪˈkænɪk(ə)l/

noun

(advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction. / One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals

The mechanical engineer designed a new prototype.

意味（1）

(advertising) 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.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

(science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.

Is it a mechanical, or a man in a clockwork suit?

意味（4）

(engineering) 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.

意味（5）

(cycling) An instance of equipment failure.

The pack are suffering mechanicals and pull up under a lamp post marking a right turn.

意味（6）

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

On the other hand I heard only recently of a modern marvel — an organ of two manuals and about sixteen or eighteen stops with adequate and modern mechanicals that the pastor assures me has not been touched by repairer or even by tuner in four years!

意味（7）

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

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.”