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See also bót, bột, 'bot, and -bot

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

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

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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.
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larva of a bot fly

[edit] Etymology 2

From bottom.

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

  1. (UK, slang) To bugger
  2. (Australian, 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.
[edit] 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.

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  • (To ask for something): bum (UK)

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Shortened from robot.

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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.
[edit] Translations
robot — see robot
a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks
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[edit] References

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

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bot m. (plural bots)

  1. A jump, leap
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bot

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

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bot m. (plural bots)

  1. boat
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bot m. (plural bots)

  1. wineskin
  2. bagpipes
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[edit] Dalmatian

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

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bot m.

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

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bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)

  1. not sharp, blunt, dull
  2. impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude
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Declension of bot
positive comparative superlative
attributive predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial bot botter  
neuter
singular		 indefinite bot botter
definite botte bottere botste het botst(e)
common singular botte bottere botste de botste
plural botte bottere botste de botste
partitive bots botters  


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bot n. (plural botten, diminutive botje)

  1. bone
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bot m. (plural botten, diminutive botje)

  1. flounder (a type of fish)
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bot m. (plural botten, diminutive botje)

  1. (Flemish) boot

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bot

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

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bot (plural botok)

  1. stick

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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

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bot

  1. Rafsi of botpi.

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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).

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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

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    Declension of bot (strong ō-stem)
Singular Plural
nominative bōt bōta, bōte
accusative bōte bōta, bōte
genitive bōte bōta
dative bōte bōtum

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bot

  1. tail
  2. penis

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[edit] Romanian

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

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bot n. (plural boturi)

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

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bot c.

  1. fine
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Declension of bot
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bot boten böter böterna
genitive bots botens böters böternas
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but > Icelandic bót). Akin to English boot (“remedy", "profit"”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.

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bot c.

  1. cure; remedy
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Declension of bot
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bot boten boter boterna
genitive bots botens boters boternas
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[edit] West Frisian

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bot

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

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bot

  1. very, quite

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bot m.

  1. flounder (a type of fish)
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