Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
make automatic or control or operate automatically;
- Example: "automatize the production"- Example: "automate the movement of the robot"[syn: automatize, automatise, automate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
automate \automate\ v.
1. make automatic; to change [a process] so that it is mostly
automatic; to substitute machinery for human labor in an
activity.
Syn: automatize.
[WordNet 1.5] [+PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
automate
v 1: make automatic or control or operate automatically;
"automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the
robot" [syn: automatize, automatise, automate]