robot

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.

   ““I say again, down with the robot!—he is a dog who yields it!””

2. isim An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

   “The robots in Dick's novel, loosely adapted by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner, were so similar to humans that when they went rogue, trained bounty hunters were called in to perform psychological tests to see whether suspected androids lacked human empathy.”

3. isim A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.

   “We have a robot in the house that does the vacuuming.”

4. isim A bot, software designed to perform a task.

   “Clifton Sellers attended a Zoom meeting last month where robots outnumbered humans.”

5. isim A person who does not seem to have any emotions or individuality.

   “Yet surely he was a humorless robot of a man, spewing forth lonely and bitter critiques of all those lesser mortals with whom he could not identify.”

6. isim A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).
7. isim A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
8. isim A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
9. isim A habitual poster on the /r9k/ board on 4chan; a member of the /r9k/ community.

   “One anonymous message addressed to "fellow robots" hoped readers would have "an enjoyable Elliot Rodger day"—a reference to the shooter who killed six near a Santa Barbara university last year.”