auto
IPA: ˈɔtoʊ
noun
- (chiefly attributive) An automobile.
- (uncountable) A setting for automatic operation.
- (automotive) An automatic gearbox/transmission.
- (automotive) A car with an automatic gearbox/transmission.
- (India) An autorickshaw.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia
verb
- (intransitive, dated) To travel by automobile.
adjective
- (automotive) Clipping of automatic. (of a gearbox/transmission) [Capable of operating without external control or intervention.]
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Examples of "auto" in Sentences
- Algore your guru of climate change said the auto is the greatest threat to humanity why are you still driving?
- Once you plug in the Wii MotionPlus dongle, the title auto-recognizes it and takes advantage of its added precision.
- Google said there would be no auto-following, but Google will merely suggest people you could follow, what it calls auto-suggest.
- Now onwards, Google said there would be no auto-following, but Google will merely suggest people you could follow, what it calls auto-suggest.
- I didn't know about the synonym search (e.g. "~auto loan" will allow auto to match car, truck, etc.) and the wildcards (e.g. "red * blue" will match occurrences of red and blue with one word in between).
- You've also got all these auto - what I call auto-performers, who are performing themselves, people like Divine and Mary Vivian Pierce, I mean, people who are really performing heightened versions of themselves.
- Here -- and more especially in the study of those spontaneous solitary manifestations which I call auto-erotic -- I have attempted to clear the ground, and to indicate the main lines along which the progress of our knowledge in these fields may best be attained.
- The term auto bias normally describes a circuit in which the signal grid of a power tube is referenced to ground, and the potential of the cathode is raised above ground through a cathode resistor (footnote 1), thus prompting the tube to adjust itself under operating conditions.
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