Difference between mechanical and routine

mechanical

Definitions

adjective

  1. using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
  2. relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
  3. relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics

Examples

Instead of talking about the mechanical superiority of their latest cars, manufacturers hired the sexiest, perkiest breasted young women they could find to writhe, lean and lick their lips next to their new products.

Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning.

Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.

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routine

Definitions

noun

  1. an unvarying or habitual method or procedure
  2. a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
  3. a short performance that is part of a longer program

adjective

  1. found in the ordinary course of events

Examples

A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.

She wound up her dance routine with a wobbly pirouette and took a little bow.

Sampling of gases and vapors by active sampling on a solid adsorbent or passive sampling by diffusion is routinely done and well documented.

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