Bot vs Help - What's the difference?
bot | help |
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.
(uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
(usually, uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
(usually, uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
(uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
To provide assistance to (someone or something).
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, title= To contribute in some way to.
To provide assistance.
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, title= To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can .
As nouns the difference between bot and help
is that bot is bot while help is (uncountable) action given to provide assistance; aid.As a verb help is
to provide assistance to (someone or something).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.
page 157,
- 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.
page 71,
- 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.
page 91,
- 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.
page 59,
- 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.
See also
* BotsReferences
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----help
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- I need some help with my homework.
- He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
- I've printed out a list of math helps .
- I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
- The help is coming round this morning to clean.
- Most of the hired help is seasonal, for the harvest.
- His suicide attempts were a cry for help .
- He really needs help in handling customer complaints.
- ''"He's a real road-rager." / "Yup, he really needs help , maybe anger management."
Usage notes
The sense "people employed to help in the maintenance of a house" is usually an uncountable mass noun. A countable form - "a hired help''", "''two hired helps " - is attested, but now less common.Quotations
(English Citations of "help")Synonyms
* (action given to provide assistance) aid, assistance * (person or persons who provide assistance) * (person employed to help in the maintenance of a house)Derived terms
* cry for help * help desk * helpful * helpless * helpline * helply * helpmate * helpmeet * helpsome * home help * self-helpEtymology 2
From (etyl) helpen, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) .Verb
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help , and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}