robot

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ro=bot

OXFORD DICTIONARY

robot, n.
1 a machine with a human appearance or functioning like a human.
2 a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.
3 a person who works mechanically and efficiently but insensitively.
4 S.Afr. an automatic traffic-signal.

Derivative

robotic adj. robotize v.tr. (also -ise).

Etymology

Czech (in K. C.apek'.s play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) 1920), f. robota forced labour

ROGET THESAURUS

robot

Life

N life, vitality, viability, animation, vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit, respiration, wind, breath of life, breath of one's nostrils, oxygen, air, respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung, medical devices, lifeblood, Archeus, existence, vivification, vital force, vitalization, revivification, Prometheus, life to come, physiology, biology, animal ecology, nourishment, staff of life, genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production), microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile, methanogen, archaebacteria, microaerophile, animal, vegetable, artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence, breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature, preservation of life, healing (medicine), living, alive, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated, animative, lively, all alive and kicking, tenacious of life, full of life, yeasty, vital, vitalic, vivifying, vivified viable, zoetic, Promethean, vivendi causa, atqui vivere militare est, non est vivere sed valere vita.