OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 248

robot

/ˈɹəʊ.bɒt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
robot
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 t…
Young Rossum invented a worker with a minimum amount of requirements. He had to simplify him. He rejected everything that did not contribute directly to the progress of work—everyt…
robot
A person who does not seem to have any emotions or individuality.
Straight society tries to change us by several means. Most of the time, it is mental torture, though physical abuse is not uncommon. We are programmed to be straight starting from…
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.
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