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What does automatic mean?
Definitions in simple English

automatic

If something is automatic, it works by itself. A washing machine is automatic.

automatic

A car that changes the gear by itself is called an automatic. The car is not manual shift, it is automatic. A gun that continues to fire while the trigger is pressed is called an automatic. That machine gun is an automatic.

automatic

operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control automatic transmission a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts (= machinelike) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine an automatic 'thank you' machinelike efficiency (= reflex, reflexive) without volition or conscious control the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light a reflex knee jerk sneezing is reflexive (= automatic pistol) a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released (= automatic rifle) light machine gun

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Simple sentences

This is an automatic door.
I am a translation system but I am not automatic!
Fully automatic story generation remains an unsolved problem for computer scientists.
A definite advantage of automatic doors is that people can't spread their contagious diseases by touching door handles.
The lift has an automatic door.
I prefer to drive a manual car, while my brother prefers an automatic.
The Indonesian government has granted all tourists automatic visa extensions.
Tom has an automatic card shuffler.
Please use automatic speech recognition!
The computer stopped working after an automatic system update.
The door is automatic.

Movie subtitles

The unmanned register-rocket H.32, equipped with automatic imaging-instruments.
Someone's taken my automatic.
A Webley-Forsby.45 automatic, 8-shot.
Kind of an automatic feeder.
Wait 'til she finds out you're more interested in those automatic milkers.
Might be an automatic.
You own a pistol:.45-caliber Colt automatic.
Forty-five-caliber automatic.
There is even the automatic startup!
With me it's automatic to shift in the neutral before I cut the motor.
And then one day, when he was working on her car I got him to explain how the automatic transmission worked.
It fires automatic.
Yeah, can't you just see me? Rushing home to a hot apartment to listen to the automatic laundry and the electric dishwasher and the garbage disposal and the nagging wife.
Radiator shutters automatic.
A Webley-Forsby.45 automatic, 8-shot. They don't make 'em anymore.
Throw it on automatic.
What's the matter with the automatic? Won't it run?
That was six. Might be an automatic.
To the automatic?
With me, it's automatic to shift into neutral before I cut a motor.
And then one day, when he was working on her car, I got him to explain how the automatic transmission worked.
Don't you have automatic telephone?
Rushing home to a hot apartment to listen to the automatic laundry and the electric dishwasher and the garbage disposal and the nagging wife.
I'll take the automatic now.
Automatic prism. It touch on the panel reading.
This is a.45-calibre automatic, Captain.
Automatic control.
Why don't you get yourself one of those automatic stamp-lickers?
What sort of a gun do you think it is? - Forty-five-caliber automatic.
There never was a model except with twin horizontal automatic choke carburettors, no, no.
Connect automatic radar tracking.
Look, you have an automatic!
You know what? I'm trying to get an automatic pistol.
I didn't. Well, wearing a uniform doesn't bestow an automatic monopoly on courage, Commander.

News and current affairs

States with balanced-budget frameworks are forced to cut spending as tax revenues fall - an automatic destabilizer that Europe seems mindlessly bent on adopting.
Automatic enrollment creates a saving plan that is sensible for the typical person.
The connection between capitalism and democracy is far from automatic.
And its automatic stabilizers, with spending automatically increasing as economic woes increased, held out the promise of moderating the downturn.
At first sight it seems unreasonable, indeed irresponsible, to undermine the all-too difficult task of collecting taxes by taking away the device of automatic withholding.
But, given limited interregional transfers and labor mobility, this means that the continent has far less ability to absorb disparate shocks through the operation of so-called automatic stabilizers.
Moreover, implementation will likely prove far from automatic, thereby testing the resolve of governments and institutions.
Belgium, for example, insists on its system of automatic wage indexing.
The shooting, by automatic weapon fire, took place in broad daylight in a largely Roma neighborhood, where the grandmother of one of the victims lived.
But the automatic stabilizers that normally kick in did not.
In general, automatic stabilizers may not kick in across the global economy, which means that policies need to be coordinated.
China's lack of automatic stabilizers places the tension between reform objectives and growth imperatives in sharp relief.
On the American side of the Atlantic, the usefulness of these automatic fiscal stabilizers is unchallenged.
This levy would represent a sort of automatic fine, thus making the elaborate structure of the Pact redundant.
For a normal country, the national income-tax system constitutes a huge automatic stabilizer across regions.
Europe, of course, has no significant centralized tax authority, so this key automatic stabilizer is essentially absent.
Today, peace with Syria might facilitate an Israeli peace with Lebanon down the road, but that will not be an automatic outcome.
Nevertheless, according to Brigitte Madrian of Harvard University, automatic enrollment in savings plans is critically important, even if the employee is completely free to drop out.
A government saving plan that is based on automatic, though not compulsory, enrollment has the ability to deal with this problem, if only imperfectly.
Such freedom is not automatic, because even the Internet's inherent openness can be largely defeated by assiduous government filtering and surveillance.
The reduction in income levels at international prices means that many more people in China and India are now classified as poor - an automatic boon for the World Bank, whose primary business is to end poverty.
Without rebalancing and reforms, the days of the automatic Chinese soft landing may be over.
And the US fiscal system collects roughly two-thirds of all taxes at the national level, which implies an automatic and substantial net fiscal transfer to states with temporarily falling incomes.
Germany and France have proposed stricter rules on borrowing and spending, backed by tough, semi-automatic sanctions for governments that do not comply.
The original inspiration behind the creation of the IMF was that a largely automatic and rule-governed body would be a less politicized way of stabilizing markets and expectations.
It was French President Nicolas Sarkozy who, in the run-up to the last EU summit, called a halt to Merkel's attempt to introduce an automatic response to member states that violate the stability criteria.
In simple language: forget about any punishment or automatic trigger mechanisms that might affect a country's sovereignty.

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