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The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
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A physical robot.
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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.
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A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
Examples of bots in a Sentence
When you post a link to your blog or site on your profile, it will get picked up when search engine bots crawl through your profile page looking for updates.
There are not bots to play, which always disappoints me since I have no friends.
That's visitors, not hits, and doesn't include bots.
The competition will be to design a bot which will the be set against other competitors bots in a showdown.
The only thing UT has over quake 3 in my opinion is better bots.
I also added a hidden link to each page that will allow search bots to check each page.
This not only helps improve accessibility for disabled users but also for search engine bots.
I hope that the code to stop the image bots kicks in properly soon.
The simple solution to beat the spam bots is to encrypt any email addresses on your site.
Email This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it to get on the mailing list.
At the same site you can play, Lego Builder Bots, which could be renamed Lego Tetris.
One negative of multiplayer mode is the exclusion of Bots.
But once again, Bungie decided to leave out Bots.
Many different websites contain functions that will allow you to play Settlers of Catan free online, either against computer players (known as "bots"), or against actual people from all over the world.
They also have automated bots that will fake sending you a message to try and trick you into VIP membership before a real person has ever even looked at your profile.
Even less ethical are the sites which will use programmed "bots" or even hired members to send you messages when you sign up for free.
While Merrell still makes hiking bots for men, their line has expanded to include hiking boots for women as well.
The opening sequence did a great job of introducing some of the new Autobots like The Twins, Skids and Mudflap, designed to look like an ice cream truck but could divide into two smaller bots.
With all these bots involved in the chase you might have expected them to catch the Decpticon, but it wasn't meant to be.
Of the new bots, she is the only one called by name in the Transformers 2 movie.
Known individually as Mudflap and Skids, these two bots have the ability to combine into an ice cream van.
Can I stop bots and spiders from searching my website?
Those bad links were caused by our email masking meant to keep out bad bots.