Difference between mechanical and routine
Definitions
adjective
- using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
- relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
- relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics
Examples
Assistant Secretary Owen said the latest estimates are that 35,000 civilians were able to flee the area Monday when government forces used explosives to create a gap in an "earthwork" wall a few miles long constructed by the Tigers using mechanical diggers.
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.
Definitions
noun
- an unvarying or habitual method or procedure
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
adjective
- 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.
These same people also routinely said they felt comfortable with Bush as a leader with values and dignity.
Sampling of gases and vapors by active sampling on a solid adsorbent or passive sampling by diffusion is routinely done and well documented.
