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Vinony

bot

noun

  1. a programmed artificially intelligent non-playing role or entity in a video game
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Pronunciation: /bɒt/ / /bɑt/

noun

Etymology: Clipping of robot.

  1. A physical robot.

    “I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.”

    “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.”

  2. A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.

    “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.”

    “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.”

  3. A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.

    “Next, you are placed in the world of RuneScape, which is similar to our own, with trees, grass, buildings, animals, and of course, people. In RuneScapes shops and banks there are bots' (computer-controlled players).”

    “Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.”

  4. A supremely unskilled player.

    “"That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."”

  5. A person with no ability to think for themselves; (by extension) an unintelligent or contemptible person.

    “The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with[.]”

verb

Etymology: Clipping of robot.

  1. To use a bot, or automated program.

    “Players caught botting will be banned from the server.”