automate
/ˈɔːtəmeɪt/verb
उच्चारण ऑटमेट
स्वचालित करना, मशीनों से चलाना
Core word
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[T, usually passive]
to use machines and computers instead of people to do a job or task
स्वचालित करना, मशीनों से चलाना
- The ticket booking process has been fully automated.
- Many banks have automated their routine work.
- an automated factory
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- The company plans to automate its billing.
- It is difficult to automate tasks that need human judgement.
- Banks have automated many of their services.
- Farmers are beginning to automate irrigation.
Synonyms mechanize computerize
§Structures (grammar patterns) 4
automate + object
Use automate with the task or process that machines will now do.
जिस काम को अब मशीनें करेंगी, उसके साथ 'automate' का प्रयोग होता है।
- The bank automated its loan approval process.
- Radhika automated her daily backup with a small script.
be automated (passive)
The passive is the most common form, because the focus is on the job, not on who changed it.
Passive सबसे आम है, क्योंकि ध्यान काम पर होता है, बदलने वाले पर नहीं।
- Ticket booking has been fully automated.
- Many factory jobs are being automated.
automate + the process of + -ing
You can name the activity with the process of plus a gerund.
गतिविधि बताने के लिए 'the process of' के बाद gerund आ सकता है।
- The college automated the process of issuing certificates.
automate + gerund phrase / task noun
Verbs like start, plan and try often come before automate.
Start, plan और try जैसे verbs प्रायः 'automate' से पहले आते हैं।
- The company plans to automate its accounts department.
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automate + noun
a processa taska systemproductionthe workflow
- The post office wants to automate parcel sorting.
adverb + automate
fullypartlygraduallyincreasinglycompletely
- The toll plazas have been fully automated.
verb + to automate
plandecidebegintrybe able
- The school decided to automate its attendance records.
automate + gerund phrases
data entrybillingattendanceticketing
- The hospital automated its billing last year.
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- Railways have automated many of their ticket counters.
रेलवे ने अपने कई टिकट काउंटरों को स्वचालित कर दिया है।
- Automating repeated work saves time for the staff.
बार-बार होने वाले काम को स्वचालित करने से कर्मचारियों का समय बचता है।
- The library automated its book issue system last year.
पुस्तकालय ने पिछले वर्ष अपनी पुस्तक-निर्गमन प्रणाली को स्वचालित किया।
- Not every job can be automated.
हर काम को स्वचालित नहीं किया जा सकता।
- She wrote a program to automate her spreadsheet reports.
उसने अपनी spreadsheet रिपोर्टों को स्वचालित करने के लिए एक program लिखा।
- The bank hopes to automate every simple task by next year.
बैंक को आशा है कि वह अगले वर्ष तक हर साधारण काम को स्वचालित कर लेगा।
!Common mistakes 2
✗ The office was automatised last year.
✓ The office was automated last year.
The verb is automate, not automatise.
सही verb 'automate' है, 'automatise' नहीं।
✗ They automated to the whole system.
✓ They automated the whole system.
Automate is transitive and takes no preposition before its object.
'Automate' transitive है और object से पहले preposition नहीं लेता।
≠Thesaurus: which synonym when
Automate and mechanise both replace human effort with machines, but differ in the kind of machine.
Automate और mechanise दोनों मानवीय श्रम की जगह मशीनें लाते हैं, पर मशीन के प्रकार में अंतर है।
Make a process run by itself, usually with computers.
किसी प्रक्रिया को अपने आप चलने योग्य बनाना, प्रायः computers से।
- They automated the exam registration.
mechanise
Use machines instead of hand labour, usually in farming or industry.
हाथ के श्रम की जगह मशीनों का उपयोग, प्रायः खेती या उद्योग में।
- Farmers began to mechanise harvesting.