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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Umbrella

Hi,

what do you call an umbrella that gets opened with a single press of a button (unlike the umbrella that must be opened manually)?
  

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Hi, I'd just call it an umbrella. But I suppose, if I had to say something more, I might say 'an automatic umbrella'. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, I'd just call it an umbrella.
  • But I suppose, if I had to say something more, I might say 'an automatic umbrella'.
  • Clive
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Hi,

I'd just call it an umbrella.

But I suppose, if I had to say something more, I might say 'an automatic umbrella'.

Clive
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Usually, I call mine "possessed." It seems to have a mind of its own.
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Hi GG,

Perhaps you have one of the new remote-control models?

Clive
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Hi,

> But I suppose, if I had to say something more, I might say 'an automatic
> umbrella'.

Clive, since a button should be pushed in order to open such an umbrella,
it's rather to be called semi-automatic. The fully automatic model whould be
one that automatically opens itself when it starts raining. A good idea to be
patented... =)
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Hi Victor,

Yet a fully automatic weapon is not one that starts to shoot by itself (one hopes).Emotion: stick out tongue

Clive
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Perhaps, these military guys didn't know that automatos means acting
independently. =)

P.S. Sure, most of things called "automatic" don't act completely
independently. And that is a pity :'-(
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