Bob vs. Bot — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bob and Bot
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Bob
To move up and down
A cork bobbing on the water.
Bot
The parasitic larva of a botfly.
Bob
To grab at floating or hanging objects with the teeth
Bobbed for apples.
Bot
Bots (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A disease of mammals, especially cattle and horses, caused by infestation of the stomach or intestines with botfly larvae.
Bob
To fish with a bobber.
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Bot
A software program, such as a spider, that performs automated tasks on the internet.
Bob
To curtsy or bow.
Bot
A software program that imitates the behavior of a human, as in participating in chatroom or IRC discussions.
Bob
To cause to move up and down
Bobbed my head in response to the question.
Bot
(Informal) A robot.
Bob
To cut short or reshape
Bobbed her hair.
Had his nose bobbed.
Bot
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.
Bob
A quick, jerky movement of the head or body.
Bot
A physical robot.
Bob
A bobber used in fishing.
Bot
(computing) A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
Bob
A small, knoblike pendent object, such as a plumb bob.
Bot
(video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
Bob
A small lock or curl of hair.
Bot
A supremely unskilled player.
Bob
A haircut that hangs evenly above the shoulders, often around the chin, worn especially by women or children.
Bot
A person with no ability to think for themselves
Bob
(Informal) Surgical shortening or reshaping of the nose.
Bot
To bugger.
Bob
The docked tail of a horse.
Bot
To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
Can I bot a smoke?
Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.
Bob
A bobsled.
Bot
(video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
Players caught botting will be banned from the server.
Bob
A bob skate.
Bot
See Bots.
Bob
A shilling.
Bot
Botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human
Bob
(intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
The flowers were bobbing in the wind.
Bob
(transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish.
Bob one's head (= to nod)
Bob
To curtsy.
Bob
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
Bob
(intransitive) blob
Bob
(transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?
Bob
(transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
Bob
To bobsleigh.
Bob
A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
A bob of the head
Bob
A curtsy.
Bob
A bobber buoyant fishing device.
Bob
Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
Bob
A bob haircut.
Bob
Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
Bob
The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
Bob
The docked tail of a horse.
Bob
A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
Bob
The short runner of a sled.
Bob
A bobsleigh.
Bob
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
Bob
A working beam in a steam engine.
Bob
A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
Bob
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
Bob
(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
Bob
(obsolete) The refrain of a song.
Bob
(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
Bob
A shilling.
Bob
A 10-cent coin.
Bob
(slang) An unspecified amount of money.
I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.
Bob
A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
Bob
Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob.
Bob
A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow,Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow.
Bob
A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Bob
The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
Bob
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
Bob
A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
Bob
A working beam.
Bob
A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
A plain brown bob he wore.
Bob
A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
Bob
The refrain of a song.
To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
Bob
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
Bob
A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
He that a fool doth very wisely hit,Doth very foolishly, although he smart,Not to seem senseless of the bob.
Bob
A shilling.
Bob
To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
Bob
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
Bob
To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him.
Bob
To mock or delude; to cheat.
To play her pranks, and bob the fool,The shrewish wife began.
Bob
To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
Bob
To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
Bob
A former monetary unit in Great Britain
Bob
A hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
Bob
A long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
Bob
A hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
Bob
A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
Bob
A short or shortened tail of certain animals
Bob
A short abrupt inclination (as of the head);
He gave me a short bob of acknowledgement
Bob
Move up and down repeatedly;
Her rucksack bobbed gently on her back
Bob
Ride a bobsled;
The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure
Bob
Remove or shorten the tail of an animal
Bob
Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect;
She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand
Bob
Cut hair in the style of a bob;
Bernice bobs her hair these days!
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