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Cyber vs Cyborg - What's the difference?

cyber | cyborg |

As an adjective cyber

is pertaining to the Internet; an alternative spelling of nocap=1|lang=en.

As a verb cyber

is to engage in cybersex.

As a noun cyborg is

a person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic.

cyber

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to the Internet;
  • (informal) Cybergoth.
  • * 1998 , Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin
    • She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.
  • * 2007 , Tiffany Godoy, Ivan Vartanian, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo
    • ...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber , and rock.
  • * 2007 , Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture
    • No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun. Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear.

    Derived terms

    * noncyber

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To engage in cybersex.
    • Wanna cyber ?

    See also

    * cyber- *

    Anagrams

    *

    cyborg

    English

    (wikipedia cyborg)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (science fiction) a person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic
  • (science fiction) a robot who has an organic past
  • a human with electronic or bionic prostheses

    • Quotations

    * 1981 , Teri (Pettit at PARC-MAXC), fa.sf-lovers newsgroup, "Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V3
  • 122", May 15:
    • *: I would not classify the as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg , if anything. * 1991 , Timothy K. Smith, "Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love -- He's Got the Printouts", The Wall Street Journal , September 24, front page: *: is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg ". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe a new science entirely of his own devising. * 2002 , Thomas Jones, "Short Cuts", London Review of Books Vol. 24 No. 18, September 19: *: ... , professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Warwick is no stranger to publicity. His autobiography, I, Cyborg , which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances. With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention. That isn't the main thrust of the book, though, which is rather an account of why he is turning himself into a cyborg . * 2003 , David Simpson, "Are we still tragic?", guardian.co.uk (exclusive from London Review of Books Vol. 25 No. 7, April 3), April 1: *: The cyborg subject, with its pacemakers, drug regimes and artificial limbs, is usually also the first world middle to upper-class economic subject with a conscious incentive to preserve life for as long as possible under the best possible conditions. * 2003 , Anthony Lane, "The Current Cinema -- Metal Guru", The New Yorker , July 14: *: On the track of John and Kate is the (Kristanna Loken), a blond female cyborg so metallically single-minded, and so impervious to blandishment and punishment alike, that, from where I was sitting, she looked to be our best hope of getting a woman into the Oval Office.

    Synonyms

    * bion * cybernetic organism

    Related terms

    * borg ----