automat
/aw-tuh-mat/US // ˈɔ təˌmæt //UK // (ˈɔːtəˌmæt) //
自动,自动化,自动装置,自动机
Definitions
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Trademark.
- : a type of self-service restaurant in which customers obtain food from small compartments by depositing the required number of coins in slots so that the doors can be opened.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as invending machine
Examples
Joe Horn and Frank Hardart opened a chain of Automat restaurants in New York City around the mid-1900s that served fresh pastries, pies, doughnuts, cakes, soups, and salads.
The Automat restaurants, for example, where the customer gets all his requirements himself, would never do in London.
He didn't quite remember how he had left the automat, and he didn't even try to remember.
Stanton went through the door of the automat restaurant and walked over to the vending wall.
Mr. Lum, leaning against the Automat, darkly considered this eventuality.
He didn't quite remember how he had left the automat, and he really didn't even try to remember.
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