bot
bot Lexical Profile
bot Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An autonomous software program on a computer or network that can interact with systems or users, automate repetitive tasks, or simulate human activity online.
"The customer service website uses an automated bot to answer common questions about shipping and returns."
A computer-controlled character or opponent in a video game, or derogatorily, a human player who exhibits unskillful, predictable, or mechanical behavior.
"Before joining a competitive multiplayer match, she practiced her aim against bots."
The parasitic maggot or larva of a botfly (family Oestridae), which infests the internal tissues, nasal passages, or digestive tracts of horses, sheep, and other mammals.
"The veterinarian prescribed a deworming paste to protect the horses in the pasture from bots."
• verb
To use automated software programs to perform repetitive tasks, artificially inflate social media metrics, or play an online game without human intervention.
"The developer banned thousands of accounts that had been botting to collect in-game currency."
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Word Origin & Etymology
In computing, shortened from 'robot' in the 1960s, itself coined by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1920 from the Czech word 'robota' meaning 'forced labor'. In the zoological sense referring to a parasitic larva, first recorded in the 15th century, of uncertain origin but possibly related to Middle Low German 'budde' (louse or grub).