-botcomb. form

Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: robot n.²

Etymology: < -bot (in robot n.²). Compare slightly later bot n.⁵Found in a number of formations from the second half of the 20th cent. Compare blends involving robot n.² in similar meanings, as e.g. mobot (blend of mobile adj.¹ and robot n.²):1959 Science 24 Apr. 1118/1 A remote-control handling machine for use in radioactive laboratories has been developed by the Hughes Aircraft Company. The mobile robot, called Mobot, can lift, place, and invert dangerous radioactive materials.

1. Forming nouns denoting a type of robot or automated device. Also in extended use referring to a person regarded as an automaton. Cf. bot n.⁵ 1.See also fembot n., nanobot n.

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1966 N.Y. Times 31 July iii. 7/2 The arms of an Autobot machine range from 6 inches in length to 120 feet or more for making anything from wristwatches to heavy duty machinery.

1983 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 19 Dec. Until that dreadful day when even this job is taken over by a machine, let us bask in the glorious fact that, ‘No, Virginia, there is no Santa-Bot’.

1987 D. Brin Uplift War 206 The Gubru gasbots have already swept over our surface encampments several times, unleashing their deadly vapors.

1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 17 May 44/2 Some of the legions of disaffected Perot supporters sniff at the new members they call ‘Perotbots’.

2000 Pop. Sci. Aug. 16/1 (caption) Slithering ‘snakebots’ could assist NASA astronauts with their duties on the International Space Station by bringing tools and dragging equipment to specific job locations.

2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Dec. 108/2 The most current J.Lo-bot may not..have much DNA in common with the Ava Gardner-esque Jennifer Lopez of yore.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Nov. b10/1 Other robot owners have modified their guard-bots, too.

2. Computing. Forming nouns denoting a type of automated program or (internet) software (see bot n.⁵ 2), esp. one which searches out information.More established compounds of this nature are treated as separate entries: see cancelbot n., infobot n., knowbot n. Some of the less common or more ephemeral forms are illustrated here.

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1990 Robot Guidelines in alt.mud (Usenet newsgroup) 28 Mar. SpyBot is now in accordance with these rules... From the programmer of a once annoying robot.

1994 Guardian 25 Aug. ii. 20/4 A favourite trick of those who like to disrupt IRC is ‘flooding’ a channel by sending large volumes of text, perhaps from a program (called a ‘floodbot’).

1995 Wired Apr. 122/1 Red Sonja said that she has heard of cases in which people have written ‘warbots’, whose job it is to take over [IRC] channels immediately after a net split.

2000 Science 14 Jan. 187/1 One kind of ‘searchbot’, for example, adds new Web pages to a pile probed by the search engine AltaVista.

2005 2600 Summer 13/1 The zero wait time for a meta refresh is important because otherwise googlebot will index the redirect page as a page with no content (a blank page) instead of a page that is identical to our target page.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	-bot
释义	-botcomb. form Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: robot n.² Etymology: < -bot (in robot n.²). Compare slightly later bot n.⁵Found in a number of formations from the second half of the 20th cent. Compare blends involving robot n.² in similar meanings, as e.g. mobot (blend of mobile adj.¹ and robot n.²):1959 Science 24 Apr. 1118/1 A remote-control handling machine for use in radioactive laboratories has been developed by the Hughes Aircraft Company. The mobile robot, called Mobot, can lift, place, and invert dangerous radioactive materials. 1. Forming nouns denoting a type of robot or automated device. Also in extended use referring to a person regarded as an automaton. Cf. bot n.⁵ 1.See also fembot n., nanobot n. ΚΠ 1966 N.Y. Times 31 July iii. 7/2 The arms of an Autobot machine range from 6 inches in length to 120 feet or more for making anything from wristwatches to heavy duty machinery. 1983 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 19 Dec. Until that dreadful day when even this job is taken over by a machine, let us bask in the glorious fact that, ‘No, Virginia, there is no Santa-Bot’. 1987 D. Brin Uplift War 206 The Gubru gasbots have already swept over our surface encampments several times, unleashing their deadly vapors. 1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 17 May 44/2 Some of the legions of disaffected Perot supporters sniff at the new members they call ‘Perotbots’. 2000 Pop. Sci. Aug. 16/1 (caption) Slithering ‘snakebots’ could assist NASA astronauts with their duties on the International Space Station by bringing tools and dragging equipment to specific job locations. 2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Dec. 108/2 The most current J.Lo-bot may not..have much DNA in common with the Ava Gardner-esque Jennifer Lopez of yore. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Nov. b10/1 Other robot owners have modified their guard-bots, too. 2. Computing. Forming nouns denoting a type of automated program or (internet) software (see bot n.⁵ 2), esp. one which searches out information.More established compounds of this nature are treated as separate entries: see cancelbot n., infobot n., knowbot n. Some of the less common or more ephemeral forms are illustrated here. ΚΠ 1990 Robot Guidelines in alt.mud (Usenet newsgroup) 28 Mar. SpyBot is now in accordance with these rules... From the programmer of a once annoying robot. 1994 Guardian 25 Aug. ii. 20/4 A favourite trick of those who like to disrupt IRC is ‘flooding’ a channel by sending large volumes of text, perhaps from a program (called a ‘floodbot’). 1995 Wired Apr. 122/1 Red Sonja said that she has heard of cases in which people have written ‘warbots’, whose job it is to take over [IRC] channels immediately after a net split. 2000 Science 14 Jan. 187/1 One kind of ‘searchbot’, for example, adds new Web pages to a pile probed by the search engine AltaVista. 2005 2600 Summer 13/1 The zero wait time for a meta refresh is important because otherwise googlebot will index the redirect page as a page with no content (a blank page) instead of a page that is identical to our target page. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < comb. form1966
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