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To computerize something is to start using a computer to run it, store it, or control how it is done. A school computerizes its records; a factory computerizes a production line. The object is usually a system, a task, or an institution — not a person. You do not “computerize a student.” It is the ordinary verb beside the noun computerization, and it belongs to the same formal, workplace register. American English computerize; British English often computerise. Though actually, in casual speech people more often say “put it on the computer” or “do it on a screen.” The -ize verb can sound like a big official project, even when the change is quite small. It is not the same as compute, which means “to calculate.”
(使)電腦化
組成computer + -ize (“to make / to cause to use”). Computer is compute + -er; compute comes from French computer, from Latin computō / computāre, “to calculate.”
同家族的字
- computerizationthe noun for this process
- computerthe machine you start using
- computethe older verb “to calculate,” from which computer is formed
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
computerizeverb
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo convert a manual function or system into a computer system.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo equip with a computer or a computer system.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo enter data into such a system.
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To become computerlike.
- I wonder how human she is. These are the days when computers humanize and humans computerize.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。