Noun

(en noun)

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 , page 76,

One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots , suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.

* 1984 , Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature , 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.

Noun

(en noun)

(science fiction, informal) A physical robot.

* 1998 , David G. Hartwell (editor), Year's best SF 3 , page 130,

I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time.

She was me.

* 2007 , , The Dreaming Void , unnumbered page,

The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.

* 2005 , , Quantico , 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.

(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 , 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.

* 2009 , Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style , 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.

* 2010 , Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies , 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 .

(video games) A computer-controlled character in a multiplayer video game, such as a first-person shooter.

Noun

(en noun)

A vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers.

* , chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots , such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

(label) The money wagered in poker or similar games.

A trap for catching lobsters, crabs, eels, or fish.

(label) An iron hat with a broad brim.

* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=(Francis Grose), title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page=12,

passage=The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French; one of them is represented in plat 7, fig. 1 and 2.}}

A glass of beer, of a size that varies regionally but is normally 10 fl oz (285 ml).

* 2009 , Deborah Penrith, Jodie Seal, Live & Work in Australia , page 187,

There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don?t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home.

A potshot.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}

(label) A protruding belly; a paunch.

(label) Ruin or deterioration.

The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket.

(label) A potentiometer.

(label) A non-conducting, usually ceramic, stand that supports the third rail while keeping it electrically insulated from the ground.

(label) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

A crucible.

a graphite pot'''; a melting '''pot

A perforated cask for draining sugar.

(Knight)

A size of paper; pott.

(label) toilet

* 2011 , Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek (page 204)

Noun

(-)

The drug marijuana.

Noun

(en noun)

A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.