Draught vs Botted - What's the difference?
draught | botted |
The action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.
* Sir W. Temple
The act of drawing, or pulling back.
* Spenser
That which is drawn.
* L'Estrange
That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses.
Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
* Mortimer
The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation; a draft.
* Macaulay
* South
A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).
* Charles Dickens
(maritime) The depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull.
An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow.
* 1851 ,
*:“Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts —long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.
The act of drawing in a net for fish.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke V:
* Sir M. Hale
(British) A game piece used in the game of draughts.
(Australia) A type of beer, brewed using a top-fermenting yeast; ale.
(UK, Ireland) Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
(dated) A dose of medicine in liquid form.
* 1919 ,
(medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
(obsolete) A privy.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
* 1623 , William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens :
(obsolete) A drawing or picture.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.22:
(obsolete) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
* Spenser
(military) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft.
(military) The force drawn; a detachment; a draft.
To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
(Webster 1913)
(bot)
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 verbs the difference between draught and botted
is that draught is to draw out; to call forth. See {{term|draft|lang=en}} while botted is past tense of bot.As a noun draught
is the action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.draught
English
Alternative forms
* draft (US)Noun
(en noun)- A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.
- She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught .
- He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught .
- The Hertfordshire wheel plough is of the easiest draught .
- (Dryden)
- A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
- No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
- He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
- She took a deep draught from the bottle of water.
- he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught .
- Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
- Finally I gave him a draught , and he sank into uneasy slumber.
- to apply draughts to the feet
- Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught ?
- Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught , / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough.
- And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught ; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion.
- drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
Synonyms
* (game) checkers * (mouthful of liquid) swigVerb
(en verb)- (Addison)
- The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
botted
English
Verb
(head)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.
unnumbered page,
- 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.