Category vs Bot - What's the difference?
category | bot |
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
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(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
The larva of a bot fly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
* 1946 , National Research Council of Canada, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences ,
* 1984 , Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature ,
(British, slang) To bugger
(Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
(science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
* 1998 , David G. Hartwell (editor), Year's best SF 3 ,
* 2007 , , The Dreaming Void ,
* 2005 , , Quantico ,
(computing) A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
* 2009 , Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation'', Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López (editors), ''Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference ,
* 2009 , Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style ,
* 2010 , Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies ,
(video games) A computer-controlled character in a multiplayer video game, such as a first-person shooter.
(video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
As nouns the difference between category and bot
is that category is a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria while bot is bot.category
English
(wikipedia category)Noun
(categories)- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories'' of various types. Thus, words like ''boy'', ''girl'', ''man'', ''woman'', etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category''' of Nouns, whereas words like ''a'', ''the'', ''this'', and ''that'' are traditionally said to belong to the ' category of Determiners.
- This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category .
- I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.
- One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
- Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.
Synonyms
* (group to which items are assigned) class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type * See alsoDerived terms
* category mistake * category theory * conceptual category * perceptual category * subcategory * supercategoryExternal links
* *bot
English
(wikipedia bot)Etymology 1
Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic .Alternative forms
* bottNoun
(en noun)page 76,
- One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots , suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
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- Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot , but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.
Etymology 2
From bottom.Verb
- Can I bot a smoke?
- Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.
Usage notes
Although there are some references that mention that somebody could actually be a "bot" if they practice the art of botting , this noun is not really commonly used.Synonyms
* (To ask for something) bum (UK)Etymology 3
Shortened from robot.Alternative forms
* 'botNoun
(en noun)page 130,
- I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time.
- She was me.
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- The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
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- As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.
page 42,
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 .
Verb
(bott)- Players caught botting will be banned from the server.