botとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

別の表記

• bott

名詞

bot (複数形 bots)

1. 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.
   • 1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 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.

語源 2

From bottom.

動詞

bot (三人称単数 現在形 bots, 現在分詞 botting, 過去形および過去分詞形 botted)

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

   Synonym: (英国用法) bum

   Can I bot a smoke?

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

語源 3

Clipping of robot.

別の表記

• 'bot

名詞

bot (複数形 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.

   • 2005, Greg Bear, Quantico‎^[1], 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.

   • 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void‎^[2]:

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

2. (computing) A piece of software designed to perform 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”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference‎^[3], 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^[4], 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^[5], 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.

   • 2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic‎^[6], retrieved 2021-09-01:

     Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new report by the security firm Imperva, which issues an annual assessment of bot activity online.

3. (video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.

   Synonyms: NPC, AI

   • 2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:

     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.

派生語

• botmaster
• botnet
• botter

関連する語

• -bot

動詞

bot (三人称単数 現在形 bots, 現在分詞 botting, 過去形および過去分詞形 botted)

1. (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.

   Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

参照

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

アナグラム

• BTO, OTB

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /boːt/

名詞

bōt f (nominative 複数形 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

語形変化

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: bote
  • English: boot
  • → English: bote
  • Scots: bute, buit

語源

Shortened from robot.

名詞

'bot (複数形 'bots)

1. (informal) A robot.
2. (computing) A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically and on command.

アナグラム

• BTO

接尾辞

-bot

1. automatic system, computer program or machine

派生語