Mechanical vs Waisting - What's the difference?
mechanical | waisting |
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.
That which goes at the waist (of a person, as on a garment, or of an object).
A failure in mechanical testing, where part of the testpiece becomes narrow.
As an adjective mechanical
is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.As a noun waisting is
that which goes at the waist (of a person, as on a garment, or of an object).mechanical
English
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 * premechanicalwaisting
English
Noun
(en noun)- The decorative material used as waisting also served as a girdle for her midlife expansion.