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Automatic vs Republican - What's the difference?

automatic | republican |

As adjectives the difference between automatic and republican

is that automatic is capable of operating without external control or intervention while republican is (us politics) of or pertaining to the republican party of the united states.

As nouns the difference between automatic and republican

is that automatic is a car with automatic transmission while republican is (british|ireland) an irish nationalist; a proponent of a united ireland.

automatic

English

Alternative forms

* automatick

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
  • The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
  • Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
  • The reaction was automatic : flight!
  • (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
  • (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  • (maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata
  • Synonyms

    * (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctive

    Antonyms

    * (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntary

    Derived terms

    * automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automatical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A car with automatic transmission.
  • I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .
  • A semi-automatic firearm.
  • Antonyms

    * (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission

    republican

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 222:
  • Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements ).
  • Of or belonging to a republic.
  • * Macaulay
  • The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
  • * 1791 , James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson :
  • Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican . One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
  • A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.
  • See also

    * anti-monarchist (1) * antiroyalist (1) * egalitarian (2) * antifascist (4) * rational (5)