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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /bɒt/
• (米国発音) enPR: bŏt, IPA: /bɑt/
• Homophone: bought (cot–caught merger)
• 韻: -ɒt

語源 1

Unknown. Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”), but the word already existed in 中期英語, so the reverse direction of borrowing is likely. Possibly from Middle Low German [Term?]. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

別の表記

• bott

名詞

bot (plural 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.

派生語

• rodent bot

語源 2

From bottom.

動詞

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

1. (UK, 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: (UK) bum

   Can I bot a smoke?

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

名詞

bot (plural bots)

1. (UK, slang) The bottom or backside.

語源 3

Clipping of robot.

別の表記

• 'bot

名詞

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.

   • 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.

   • 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void‎:

     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 task (often a minor but repetitive one) 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, 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.

   • 2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 4 February 2023:

     Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks. […] 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

   • 2004, Daniel Sulpizi, “Rally Your Troops for RuneScape2”, in The Toronto Star‎:

     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 RuneScape's shops and banks there are bots (computer-controlled players).

   • 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.

4. (video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.
   • 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:

     "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."

5. (Internet slang, often derogatory) A person with no ability to think for themselves; (by extension) an unintelligent or contemptible person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool, Thesaurus:jerk

   • [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 June 2024:

     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[.]]

派生語

関連する語

• -bot

動詞

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

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

   Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

派生語

• viewbot

参照

• “bot” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

アナグラム

• BTO, OTB

発音

• IPA: /boːt/
• 韻: -oːt

名詞

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

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: bote
  • English: boot (as in to boot)
  • → English: bote
  • Scots: bute, buit

別の表記

• boet, boot, bote
• bat, bate (Early Middle English or Northern); boote, bootte (Late Middle English)
• boyt (East Anglia)

発音

• IPA: /bɔ̝ːt/

名詞

bot (plural botes)

1. A seafaring vessel or watercraft:
   1. A boat (a vessel smaller than a ship).
   2. A boat stowed on a ship (especially for tendering).
2. (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.

派生語

• botere

派生した語

参照

• “bōt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.

語源 2

名詞

bot

1. alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

語源 3

名詞

bot

1. alternative form of bat

語源 4

名詞

bot

1. alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)

語源 5

名詞

bot

1. alternative form of bote (“boot”)

アナグラム

• BTO, OTB