botnoun詞源 1/bɒt/

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

botverb詞源 2/bɒt/

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  slangTo bugger.

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  informalTo ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the 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.

botnoun詞源 2/bɒt/

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  slangThe bottom or backside.

botnoun詞源 3/bɒt/

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  informalliteraturemediapublishingA physical robot.

  • I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.
  • 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.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsA 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.
  • 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.
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  video-gamesA 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).
  • 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.
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  derogatoryslangvideo-gamesA 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."
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  derogatoryA 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[.]

botverb詞源 3/bɒt/

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  video-gamesTo use a bot, or automated program.

  • Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• beginning of tape
• Build–operate–transfer
• Bǽh-oe-tu