Crossword clues for bot
bot
- Automated Web browser
- Web-crawling app
- WALL-E or the Terminator, for example
- Unthinking user
- Unpaid tech worker?
- Twitter spammer (4)
- Tweet creator, at times
- Spam-spreading program
- Spam-sending software
- Spam-sending program, for short
- Spam spewer
- Spam producer, briefly
- Spam distributor?
- Spam caller, e.g
- Software agent
- Science course: Abbr
- Sci-fi sidekick, often
- Repetitive-task computer program
- Repetitive computer program
- Questionable Twitter poster, perhaps
- Program posting tweets
- One making a malicious attack, maybe
- Nonhuman Twitter account
- Nonhuman spammer
- Message-spewing program
- Mendel's sci
- Many an online nuisance
- Many a Tweeter
- Many a spam creator
- Many a modern commenter
- Many a Google program
- High-tech helper, briefly
- High-tech battler
- High-tech agent
- Hi-tech battler
- Frequent Twitter poster
- Droid kin
- DDoS attacking script
- Data miner
- Cyborg, casually
- Computer-controlled game character
- Computer program that works automatically
- CAPTCHA target
- CAPTCHA failer (hopefully)
- Burbank's sci
- Automated Web assistant
- Automated Twitter account
- Automated task performer
- Automated spam creator
- Automated software program
- Automated software application
- Automated producer of spam
- Automated online script, as it were
- Automated miner
- Automated blog participant, for short
- Android, for short
- AI game participant
- A science: Abbr
- "Web crawler" program
- 'Droid kin
- Plant sci.
- Study of plants: Abbr.
- 9-Across, e.g., informally
- Sci-fi sidekick, maybe
- Science fair creation, briefly
- Automaton, for short
- Droid cousin
- Ticket presenter
- Web crawler, e.g
- Autonomous computer program
- Ending with spam
- Google worker
- Bit of Google programming
- Certain sci-fi fighter
- Web crawler, e.g.
- What may have a strong net effect?
- Turing test participant
- Sci. of plants
- Gray area: Abbr.
- A science: Abbr.
- Fly larva
- Sci. of flora
- Asa Gray's forte: Abbr.
- Horse pest
- Science subj.
- Half behind machine
- Web-crawling software, e.g
- Spam producer, for short
- Kind of fly
- Autonomous program
- Spam generator, briefly
- Science subj
- Sci-fi servant
- Gray area: Abbr
- Program that performs repetitive tasks
- Internet __
- High-tech worker
- Automaton, in sci-fi slang
- Automaton, briefly
- Automated task performer, briefly
- These two things
- Plant science: Abbr
- Mechanical man, for short
- Mechanical combatant, for short
- Automated computer program
- AI game competitor
- Spam sender, for short
- Spam sender, often
- Search engine spider, e.g
- Science study: Abbr
- Sci-fi sidekick, sometimes
- Program that does automated tasks
- Plant study: Abbr
- Plant science (Abbr.)
- HS course
- Hi-tech worker
- Hard worker?
- Autonomous software program
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bot \Bot\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Bots.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in Internet sense, c.2000, short for robot. Its modern use has curious affinities with earlier uses, such as "parasitical worm or maggot" (1520s), of unknown origin; and Australian-New Zealand slang "worthless, troublesome person" (World War I-era). The method of minting new slang by clipping the heads off words does not seem to be old or widespread in English. Examples (za from pizza, zels from pretzels, rents from parents) are American English student or teen slang and seem to date back no further than late 1960s.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 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. n. 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. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context British slang English) To bugger 2 (context Australia informal English) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes. Etymology 3
alt. 1 (context science fiction informal English) A physical robot. 2 (context computing English) 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. 3 (context video games English) A computer-controlled character in a multiplayer video game, such as a first-person shooter. n. 1 (context science fiction informal English) A physical robot. 2 (context computing English) 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. 3 (context video games English) A computer-controlled character in a multiplayer video game, such as a first-person shooter. vb. (context video games English) To use a bot, or automated program.
WordNet
n. botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human
Usage examples of "bot".
Gwydion auf und sprang vor die Boten hin, umwirbelt von seinem scharlachroten Mantel.
The screen went blank for a moment, then was filled with an innocuous cityscape, a KOMA logo in the bot- torn corner.
He has confessed to murdering Walter Crocin and then to helping the bot escape.
Thair is Chryst Jesus the King, and his Kingdome the Kirk, whase subject King James the Saxt is, and of whase kingdome nocht a king nor a lord nor a heid, bot a member.
Fragments of his weblog go to a private subscriber list-the people, corporates, collectives and bots he currently favors.
Fragments of his weblog go to a private subscriber list the people, corporates, collectives, and bots he currently favors.
The bot stepped into the crate, root tendrils unfurling from her calves and palping the surface of the soil like so many slender tentacles.
Reden seine Geduld am Ende erschoepft hatten: jedenfalls bot er ein Bild gerechten und starken Zornes.
She had been fascinated to learn that some bots occupied high-level positions as administrators, scientists, and even gengineers.
He wondered if the bots were any happier than he in their dormitory ghettoes, away from their human masters and supervisors, their overlords.
He had seen news reports of murdered bots, stripped of roots and leaves and flowers.
A view of assembly lines, staffed almost entirely by bots, the blossoms on their heads making long rows of colorful blossoms, interrupted occasionally by the smoother heads of humans.
The bots took a few more steps and passed a shabbily dressed human who extended a cane to trip the nearest.
Some, like the human poor, were unemployed, for there were more menial jobs than bots to fill them.
Frederick wondered whether the bots had been allowed to return home to their dorm that morning, when they had left work.