Mechanical vs Mechanoreceptive - What's the difference?
mechanical | mechanoreceptive |
Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
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Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
Done by machine.
Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
(of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
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, title= (informal) Handy with machines.
Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch
*{{quote-book, 1996, B.U. Budelmann, chapter=Active Marine Predators, Zooplankton, editors=Lenz et al.
, passage=Cephalopods, like fishes and aquatic amphibians, have a mechanoreceptive system that is highly sensitive to local water movements.}}
As adjectives the difference between mechanical and mechanoreceptive
is that mechanical is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar while mechanoreceptive is responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.mechanical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Derived terms
* electromechanical * mechanical erasure * mechanicality * mechanically * mechanicalness * mechanical pencil * postmechanical * premechanicalmechanoreceptive
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Adjective
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