bot

bot ¹ also bott  (bt)

n.

1. The parasitic larva of a botfly.

2. bots (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A disease of mammals, especially cattle and horses, caused by infestation of the stomach or intestines with botfly larvae.

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[Middle English, probably of Low German origin.]

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bot ²  (bt)

n.

A software program that imitates the behavior of a human, as by querying search engines or participating in chatroom or IRC discussions.

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[Short for robot.]

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BOT

abbreviation for

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Board of Trade

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bot¹, bott [bɒt]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the larva of a botfly, which typically develops inside the body of a horse, sheep, or man

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any similar larva

3. (Medicine / Pathology) NZ informal a mild illness in humans See also bots

[probably from Low German; related to Dutch bot, of obscure origin]

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bot² Austral informal

vb

1. to scrounge or borrow

2. (intr; often foll by on) to scrounge (from); impose (on)

n

1. a scrounger

on the bot (for) wanting to scrounge he's on the bot for a cigarette

[perhaps from botfly, alluding to the creature's bite; see bite (sense 12)]

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bot³

n

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing an autonomous computer program that performs time-consuming tasks, esp on the Internet

[from (ro)bot]

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bot  (bt)

A software program that imitates the behavior of a human, as by querying search engines or participating in chatroom discussions.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

bot - botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human larva - the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

Translations

bot [ˈbɒt ˈbɒt] n → bot m