Futon vs Auton - What's the difference?
futon | auton |
A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.
A round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
(science fiction) A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
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As nouns the difference between futon and auton
is that futon is while auton is (science fiction) a machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.futon
English
(wikipedia futon)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----auton
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Noun
(en noun)- Not far away in the woods the Auton had been standing motionless under a tree. It was shaped like a man but it was not human.
- "The Metrologan Order built the auton that was Ninth. How can you be so sure that she was not so well crafted that she really did have her own will?"
- Juan made seven attempts to pervert the auton'. One involved twelve hundred years of careful observation, timing the failure of various subsystems, maneuvering the ' auton into a position where he might take control and get transportation to resources in near space.