See bot in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style, page 91:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, page 59:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2021-09-01:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "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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"ref": "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:",
"text": "\"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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"ref": "[2024 June 10, Chris Stokel-Walker, “The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media”, in New Scientist, →ISSN, retrieved 2024-06-10:",
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
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"masculine"
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"code": "be",
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"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bot",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бот"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bot"
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{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīqìrén",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "機器人 /机器人"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "bot"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "roboto"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "botti"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "robot"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bot"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bot"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bot"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "bot",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "μποτ"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "rompót",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "bot",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "boṭ",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "botto",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "ボット"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "robotto",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "ロボット"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bot",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "봇"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "botum"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bots"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "robât",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "ربات"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bot"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bot"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "bot"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "bot",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бот"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ро́бот"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bot"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
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"word": "bot"
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bɔ̀ɔt",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "บอต"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"word": "bot"
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"roman": "bot",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "ur",
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"roman": "boṭ",
"sense": "a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بوٹ"
}
],
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"(video games) To use a bot, or automated program."
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