"knowbot" meaning in English

See knowbot in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-knowbot.wav [US] Forms: knowbots [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree English know Old Czech robota Czech robota Czech robotbor. English robotclip. English bot English -bot English knowbot From know + -bot. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|know|-bot|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree English know Old Czech robota Czech robota Czech robotbor. English robotclip. English bot English -bot English knowbot [Appendix:Glossary#clipping|Clipping]] of", "terms" : [ { "id" : "Q11012", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "Q11012", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "serfdom", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "work", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "Old Czech", "term" : "robota", "lang" : "zlw-ocs" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Czech", "term" : "robota", "gloss" : "drudgery, servitude", "lang" : "cs" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Czech", "term" : "robot", "lang" : "cs" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "robot", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword" : "clipping" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "bot", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-bot", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "knowbot", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="knowbot"> From know + -bot., {{ety|en|:af|know|-bot|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Germanic *knēaną Proto-West Germanic *knāan Old English cnāwan Middle English knowen English know Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas Proto-Slavic *orbъ Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei Proto-Slavic *-iti Proto-Slavic *orbiti Proto-Indo-European *-otéh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *-atā́ˀ Proto-Slavic *-ota Proto-Slavic *orbota Old Czech robota Czech robota Czech robotbor. English robotclip. English bot English -bot English knowbot From know + -bot. Head templates: {{en-noun}} knowbot (plural knowbots)
  1. (computing) a bot that roams a distributive network (especially the Internet) to gather or distribute information

Inflected forms

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