bot
/bɒt//bɑt/
bot noun: the larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
Noun (1)
bot (plural bots)
- The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
- Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part 1, line 2.1.9
- One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76
Verb (1)
bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)
Noun (2)
bot (plural bots)
Noun (3)
bot (plural bots)
- A physical robot.
- I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.1998, David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's best SF 3, page 130
- 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.2005, Greg Bear, Quantico, page 71
- A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
- 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, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust...
- 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.2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style, page 91
- A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
- Next, you are placed in the world of RuneScape, which is similar to our own, with trees, grass, buildings, animals, and of course, people. In RuneScapes shops and banks there are bots' (computer-controlled players).2004, Daniel Sulpizi, “Rally Your Troops for RuneScape2”, in The Toronto Star
- Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232
- A supremely unskilled player.
- "That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer
- A person with no ability to think for themselves; (by extension) an unintelligent or contemptible person.
- The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with[.][2024 June 10, Chris Stokel-Walker, “The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media”, in New Scientist, →ISSN, retrieved 10 Jun 2024
Verb (2)
bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)
- To use a bot, or automated program.
- Players caught botting will be banned from the server.
Noun (4) capitalized: BOT
BOT
bot meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
bot in Hindi
- a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks
- बोट boṭ
bot in Marathi
- बॉट करणे
bot in Urdu
- a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks
- بوٹ boṭ
bot in Bengali
- বট, ব'ট, বট করতে
More languagesFewer languages
- bot in Kannada
- ಬಾಟ್
- bot in Punjabi
- ਬੌਟ, ਬੋਤ, ਬੌਟ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- bot in Gujarati
- બૉટ
- bot in Odia
- ବଟ୍
- bot in Arabic
- بُوت būt, رُوبُوت robut
- bot in Persian
- ربات robât
- bot in Thai
- บอต bɔ̀ɔt
Examples of bot in a sentence
- The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void:
- Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones.2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, page 59:
Synonyms of bot
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of bot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bots |
| alternative form | bott |
| alternative form | 'bot |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bots |
| present participle | botting |
| past participle | botted |
| past | botted |
Origin of bot
Unknown. Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”), but the word already existed in Middle English, so the reverse direction of borrowing is likely. Possibly from Middle Low German [Term?].
From bottom.
Clipping of robot.
Words formed from bot
Phrases with bot
Words that rhyme with bot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blot
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about bot
- What does bot mean?
- Bot means the larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
- What is bot in Hindi?
- Bot in Hindi is बोट (boṭ). See Bot meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bot in a sentence?
- The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
- What part of speech is bot?
- Bot can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bot?
- Bot is pronounced /bɒt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bot?
- The plural of bot is bots.
Words near bot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bot (page history and authors); BOT (page history and authors); bot (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bot (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bot (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bot (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bot (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bot (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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