automate
automate
Definition
☆ auto·mate (ôt′ə māt′)
transitive verb -·mat′ed, -·mat′·ing
- to convert (a factory, process, etc.) to automation
- to use techniques of automation in teaching is being automated
Etymology: back-form. < automation
automate
Usage Examples
Object
- reasoning: Leading the research at Leeds is Professor of Automated Reasoning, Tony Cohn.
- task: The main use of computers however, has merely been to automate office tasks.
- workflow: The first step to automating internal workflow is to map out your business process.
- process: At some point I want to automate the feedback process to Apple.
- banker: BACS payment BACS stands for Bankers Automated Clearing System which is a system for sending money electronically between banks.
- backup: Users with autoloaders or tape libraries can now fully automate backups by creating any number of media pools using barcoded tapes.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
- such: Through automation we can deliver results in real-time to the control room and automate routine tasks such as cleaning and background checks.
Adjective complement
- most: It automates most of the creation of a bootable copy of Windows on a recordable CD or DVD.
- more: The User Agent needs to automate more of what needs to be done to make a PDF more accessible.
Modifying Another Word
- fully: Ease of use Fully automated for ease of use.
- partially: A high proportion of email work can be wholly or partially automated.
- completely: Facilities are now completely automated at the lighthouse on Gull Island.
- highly: The systems are highly automated, with total control of the environment.
- totally: From the simple but necessary Chuck Jaw to the totally automated Fixture for flexible manufacturing cells.
- entirely: The autonomous agent enables this extremely time consuming process to be entirely automated.
Modifies a noun
- task: Custom script recording Automate repetitive tasks with custom scripts.
Used with why or when
- what: You can only automate what you do ( or would do ).
- where: We should automate only where we can, out of our inner resources, re- enliven.
Present participle complement
- scan: Eye to the future Automated scanning of the retina could help doctors spot the danger signs of diabetes and a host of other orders.
Preposition: of
- process: Smart split-screen technology permits multiple views of the pagination session whilst sophisticated flow algorithms automate much of the layout process.
automate Quotes
Innovate, automateöor evaporate!
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