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Definition: BOTS |
BOTSNoun plural1. The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. |
Date "BOTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Note: Bots \Bots\, plural noun. [Compare to Gaelic botus belly worm, boiteag maggot.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: BOTS |
| English words defined with "BOTS": Botts ♦ Horse bot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BOTS": botwar ♦ gasterophilosis, Gasterophilus infection ♦ self-healing monolayer. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BOTS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Afrikaan (collide). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Bots Master (1993) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | 20 jaar PSP : groot feest! met Bots, Wolf Biermann ... : Merwedehal Utrecht, 16 April ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | BOTs, because they are large scale, demand an enormous commitment of capital. (references) | |
This was the first urban water supply project of its kind, using foreign funds under the China BOT plan (the other two BOTs were power plants). (references) | ||
Economic History | Vietnam | BOTs may be joint ventures or 100 percent foreign-owned. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BOTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BOTS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bots | 1,048 | irc bots | 61 |
counter strike bots | 690 | bots cs pod | 60 |
star craft bots | 597 | bots yahoo | 58 |
aim bots | 307 | bots firearm | 56 |
bots pod | 271 | bots counter download strike | 55 |
mirc bots | 222 | bots chat msn room | 51 |
bots chat msn | 213 | bots chat room | 50 |
bots msn | 196 | bots movie p | 50 |
half life bots | 162 | bots dod | 48 |
bots cs | 148 | battle bots net | 46 |
2 bots diablo | 127 | bots p | 43 |
bots counter pod strike | 100 | aol bots | 43 |
bots online ragnarok | 99 | bots messenger msn | 41 |
bots chat | 97 | bots fortress team | 40 |
battle.net bots | 96 | bots brood war | 40 |
battle bots | 88 | bots tfc | 40 |
bots day defeat | 81 | bnet bots | 39 |
bots ragnarok | 68 | bots force opposing | 38 |
3 bots warcraft | 67 | go bots | 38 |
shopping bots | 63 | bots brood craft star war | 36 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BOTS": abbots, burbots, jabots, robots, sabots, subabbots, turbots. (additional references) | |
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"BOTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bcot, bootsy, borts, bost, Bostg, Bota, Botas, Botb, botbs, bote, botg, botos, botsa, botsi, Botsio, botsy, bott, Botti, Botts, broots, Brotzu, bto, bts, obst. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ots": Scots. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stob. | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bos, bot, sob, sot. | |
-2 letters: bo, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: besot, blots, boast, boats, bolts, boost, boots, borts, botas, botts, bouts, obits, sabot, stobs, tombs. | |
+2 letters: abbots, aborts, bathos, batons, besots, bestow, betons, bhoots, bigots, bionts, biotas, bistro, bloats, boarts, boasts, boites, boosts, booths, borsht, bosket, boston, botels, broths, buteos, doubts, jabots, objets, oblast, oboist, obtest, obtuse, orbits, robots, robust, sabots, sobeit, sorbet, strobe, subito, sublot, taboos, tabors, throbs, tobies, turbos. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4F 54 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... --- - ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001111 01010100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B O T S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004F 0054 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36495453 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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