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draught | botted |

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)
  • The action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.
  • * Sir W. Temple
  • A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.
  • The act of drawing, or pulling back.
  • * Spenser
  • She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught .
  • That which is drawn.
  • * L'Estrange
  • He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught .
  • That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses.
  • Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
  • * Mortimer
  • The Hertfordshire wheel plough is of the easiest draught .
  • The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
  • (Dryden)
  • A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation; a draft.
  • * Macaulay
  • A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
  • * South
  • No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
  • A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).
  • * Charles Dickens
  • He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
  • (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.
  • She took a deep draught from the bottle of water.
  • * 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:
  • he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught .
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
  • (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 ,
  • Finally I gave him a draught , and he sank into uneasy slumber.
  • (medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
  • to apply draughts to the feet
  • 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:
  • 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 ?
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens :
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) A drawing or picture.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.22:
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
  • * Spenser
  • drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
  • (military) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft.
  • (military) The force drawn; a detachment; a draft.
  • Synonyms

    * (game) checkers * (mouthful of liquid) swig

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
  • (Addison)
  • To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
  • To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
  • (Webster 1913)

    botted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bot)

  • bot

    English

    (wikipedia bot)

    Etymology 1

    Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic .

    Alternative forms

    * bott

    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.

    Etymology 2

    From bottom.

    Verb

  • (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.
  • 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

    * 'bot

    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.
  • Verb

    (bott)
  • (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
  • Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

    See also

    * Bots