bot

For Wiktionary's bots, see Wiktionary:Bots

See also bót, bột, 'bot, and -bot

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: bŏt, IPA: /bɒt/, X-SAMPA: /bQt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

• Audio (US)

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Etymology 1

Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”).

Alternative forms

• bott

Noun

bot (plural bots)

1. The larva of a bot fly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
   • 1946, National Research Council of Canada, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, page 76,

     One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.

   • 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157,

     Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.

Translations

larva of a bot fly

• Portuguese: berne (pt) f
• Russian: личи́нка о́вода (ličínka óvoda) f

• Swedish: styngflugelarv (sv) c

Etymology 2

From bottom.

Verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

1. (UK, slang) To bugger
2. (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting that thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.

   Can I bot a smoke?

   Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.

Usage notes

Although there are some references that mention that somebody could actually be a "bot" if they practice the art of botting, this noun is not really commonly used.

Synonyms

• (To ask for something): bum (UK)

Etymology 3

Shortened from robot.

Alternative forms

• 'bot

Noun

bot (plural bots)

1. (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
   • 1998, David G. Hartwell (editor), Year's best SF 3, page 130,

     I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time.

     She was me.

   • 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void, unnumbered page,

     The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.

   • 2005, Greg Bear, Quantico, page 71,

     As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.

2. (computing) A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
   • 2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation, Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López (editors), Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, page 42,

     The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.

   • 2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style, page 91,

     He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots.

     A bot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses bots to search and index websites.

   • 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, page 59,

     Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog′s RSS feed a Twitter bot.

3. (video games) A computer controlled character in a multiplayer video game, such as a first-person shooter.

Translations

robot — see robot

a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks

• Arabic: بوت (ar) (buut, bot) m, روبوت (ar) (róbut, ruubut) m
• Finnish: botti (fi)
• German: Bot (de) m
• Japanese: ボット (ja) (botto), ロボット (ja) (robotto)

• Latin: botum (la) n, robotum (la) n
• Russian: бот (ru) (bot) m, робот (ru) (róbot) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: bot (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Swedish: bott (sv) c

Derived terms

• -bot suffix

See also

• Bots

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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Catalan

Etymology 1

From botar.

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. A jump, leap

Related terms

• botar

Verb

bot

1. Third-person singular present indicative form of botre.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of botre.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bot (English boat).

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. boat

Synonyms

• barca
• vaixell

Etymology 3

From Late Latin buttis.

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. wineskin
2. bagpipes

Synonyms

• (bagpipes): bot de gemecs, cornamusa

Derived terms

• ploure a bots i barrals

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Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• buat

Etymology

Possibly from a derivative of Latin battuō, or alternatively of Germanic origin. Compare Italian botta, French botte.

Noun

bot m

1. blow, slap, smack, whack, knock, strike, thud

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔt

• audio

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Etymology 1

Adjective

bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)

1. not sharp, blunt, dull
2. impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude

Declension

Declension of bot

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		bot	botter
neuter singular	indefinite	bot	botter
	definite	botte	bottere	botste	botst, botste
common singular		botte	bottere	botste	botste
plural		botte	bottere	botste	botste
partitive		bots	botters

Etymology 2

Noun

bot n (plural botten, diminutive botje)

1. bone

Synonyms

• been

Etymology 3

Noun

bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje)

1. flounder (a type of fish)

Derived terms

• heilbot m
• tarbot m

Etymology 4

Noun

bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje)

1. (Flemish) boot

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German

Verb

bot

1. First-person singular preterite of bieten
2. Third-person singular preterite of bieten

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbot/

Noun

bot (plural botok)

1. stick

Declension

declension of bot singular plural nominative bot botok accusative botot botokat dative botnak botoknak instrumental bottal botokkal causal-final botért botokért translative bottá botokká terminative botig botokig essive-formal botként botokként essive-modal - - inessive botban botokban superessive boton botokon adessive botnál botoknál illative botba botokba sublative botra botokra allative bothoz botokhoz elative botból botokból delative botról botokról ablative bottól botoktól

possessives of bot possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. botom botjaim 2nd person sing. botod botjaid 3rd person sing. botja botjai 1st person plural botunk botjaink 2nd person plural bototok botjaitok 3rd person plural botjuk botjaik

Derived terms

• (Compound words): botkormány
• (Expressions): a füle botját sem mozdítja

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Rafsi

bot

1. rafsi of botpi.

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Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *buzdos (“tail, penis”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gwosdʰos (“piece of wood”)

Noun

bot m

1. tail
2. penis

Descendants

• Irish: bod
• Manx: bwoid
• Scottish Gaelic: bod

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Cognate with Old Frisian bōte, Old Saxon bōta, Dutch boete, Old High German buoza (German Buße), Old Norse bōt (Swedish bot), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bota).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /boːt/

Noun

bōt f (nominative plural bōte)

1. help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil

   Byþ hræd bót. — The cure will be quick.

2. mending, repair, improvement

   ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte — and an offering to the church for repairs

3. compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance

   For bóte his synna — for a redressing of his sins

4. improvement in (moral) condition, amendment

   Hé tó bóte gehwearf — he was converted

Declension

    Declension of bot (strong ō-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	bōt	bōta, bōte
accusative	bōte	bōta, bōte
genitive	bōte	bōta
dative	bōte	bōtum

Descendants

• bote

Derived terms

• tō bōte — to boot, with advantage, besides, moreover
• bōtan, bētan — to amend, repair, restore, cure, atone
• bōtettan — to improve, repair, to better
• bōtlēas — unpardonable, not to be atoned for by bōt.
• bōtwyrþe — pardonable, that can be atoned for by bōt, bot-worthy
• brycgbōt f. — repairing of bridges
• burgbōt, burhbōt f. — liability for repair of the walls of a town or fortress
• ciricbōt f. — repair of churches
• cynebōt f. — king's compensation
• dǣdbōtnes, dǣdbêtnes f. — penitence.

• dǣdbōt f. — amends, atonement, repentance, penitence
• dǣdbōtlihting f. — mitigation of penance.
• dolgbōt, dolhbōt f. — fine or compensation for wounding
• eftbōt f. — restoration to health
• fǣhþbōt f. — payment, fine for engaging in a feud
• feohbōt f. — money compensation
• godbōt f. — atonement
• hādbōt f. — compensation for injury or insult to a priest,
• mǣgbōt f. — compensation paid to the relatives of a murdered man, maegbot
• mægþbōt f. — fine for assault on an unmarried woman
• manbōt f. — fine paid to the lord of a man slain
• mōnaþbōt f. — penance lasting a month
• sārbōt f. — compensation for wounding
• synbōt f. — penance
• twibōte, twibête (adj. and adv.) — subject to double compensation
• wêofodbōt f. — fine for injuring a priest
• wucubōt f. — penance lasting a week

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Romanian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a Latin root *botum, perhaps from botulus or *botium. See also butuc.

Noun

bot n (plural boturi)

1. (usually of animals) snout, mouth
2. bump
3. hump

Synonyms

• (mouth): gură
• (bump): umflătură, cucui
• (hump): cocoașă

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA: /buːt/

Etymology 1

Noun

bot c

1. fine

Declension

Declension of bot

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bot	boten	böter	böterna
genitive	bots	botens	böters	böternas

See also

• böta
• bötfälla

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót). Akin to English boot (“remedy", "profit"”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.

Noun

bot c

1. cure; remedy

Declension

Declension of bot

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bot	boten	boter	boterna
genitive	bots	botens	boters	boternas

See also

• bota

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Volapük

Noun

bot (plural bots)

1. boat

Declension

declension of bot

	singular	plural
nominative	bot	bots
genitive	bota	botas
dative	bote	botes
accusative	boti	botis
predicative	botu	botus
vocative	o bot!	o bots!

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West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bot/

Adjective

bot

1. a type of impolite behaviour: curt, blunt, rude
2. dull (as a knife)

Adverb

bot

1. very, quite

Noun

bot m

1. flounder (a type of fish)