Adjective : to conduct business with machinelike efficiency. From Dictionary.com.
But from a golf perspective, "machinelike" would be a perfect description of his play. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
His tone stayed machinelike, a machine that wanted oil. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
Slick was running the balls with machinelike precision. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Demonkeeping]
HUH? it printed, with something less than machinelike precision. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Rank after rank landed and marched away with machinelike precision. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
The only fault to find with these garments is their machinelike cut. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
Take the Borg, for instance-a race of unfeeling, machinelike monsters. From Wordnik.com. [Day of Honor]
Their chant was logical and precise, their motions practiced and machinelike. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Some say only humans are conscious and animals are instinctive and machinelike. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
There was no emotion at all on his face, just a steady, machinelike concentration. From Wordnik.com. [Final Theory] Reference
Although some of its movements were machinelike, it was definitely not mechanical. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
Their chant was logical and precise, their motions practiced and machinelike. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Her skillful fingers worked with machinelike precision to make secure, neat stitches. From Wordnik.com. [Hell Wings Over Manhattan]
Dr. Danni Goodbye prided herself on her head-spinning, machinelike speed in emergencies. From Wordnik.com. [The Pull of the Moon]
One was Data, of course, who performed his responsibilities at Ops with machinelike efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place] Reference
Gone is the machinelike perfection and thick, luxuriant timbre of the Herbert von Karajan years. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Simon Brings Berlin to Washington Heights] Reference
Before they had to remake themselves into something the Watchers would pass as perhaps machinelike. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
Power umbilical cords snaked across the floor and threaded through the machinelike veins and arteries. From Wordnik.com. [Hellgate London Covenant] Reference
New York plays with a machinelike efficiency in the postseason, winning 10 straight series under Torre. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Despite lead, no bravado from Yankees] Reference
The ring, winding around with machinelike regularity, approached nearer and nearer with each revolution. From Wordnik.com. [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference
Stile did appreciate their help, and he wondered whether they were really as machinelike as they claimed. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
Knobbed machinelike plants clanking, metal flowers retracting back to metal stalks, stalks to consoles. From Wordnik.com. [Trumps of Doom]
Her campaign reflects the person she is, disciplined and focused, machinelike in her ability to forge ahead. From Wordnik.com. [No Sure Thing] Reference
In the world of 2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. From Wordnik.com. [Is Google Making Us Stupid?] Reference
The place was set on fire with help of machinelike bicycle pumps with which many of the soldiers were furnished. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
It was super-machinelike, and it helped to crush out the glimmering bit of soul that was all that was left him from former life. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 18] Reference
The TV is on, she is turning the pages of a supermarket magazine, she is ferrying snacks to her mouth with a machinelike rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [Stepping Up] Reference
The pedestals of the feet, huge and massive as foundations for sixteen-inch guns, fell with machinelike precision, stamping gigantically. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Now he dug with it in a steady, almost machinelike desperation. From Wordnik.com. [For Whom The Bell Tolls]
Raise your Skye experience manifold with machinelike call software. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
Inspectors pore primarily on the structural and machinelike aspects of the home. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
The scrutiny is your artefact of identifying structural or machinelike problems with the house. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Specimens of this virtually machinelike process include erekutoronikkusu ` electronics, 'kurisumasu. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
A similarity of motion, almost machinelike, was apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Scattergood Baines] Reference
288 | Piers Anthony and was playing with machinelike conservatism. From Wordnik.com. [Robot Adept]
Apply for credit cards fourteens,outgrowth machinelike seedling Auerbach. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Read the Whole Thing:] Reference
Without it, his tones sounded machinelike. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Vonn, meanwhile, has been looking machinelike. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He was almost machinelike in his efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference
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