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 dwelling; habitation.

A building; house.

Noun

(en noun)

A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

* , chapter=6

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle —and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}

The contents of such a container.

A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

(British, informal) Nerve, courage.

(attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) With one's hair color produced by dyeing.

(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

* End of the 14th century , (The Canterbury Tales), by (Geoffrey Chaucer),

Is that a Cook of London, with mischance? / Do him come forth, he knoweth his penance; / For he shall tell a tale, by my fay, / Although it be not worth a bottle hay.

* 1599 , (Much Ado About Nothing), by (William Shakespeare),

DON PEDRO. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument.

BENEDICK. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.

* 1590s , , by (Christopher Marlowe)

I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life.

(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.