English Dictionary

robot

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹəʊbɒt/

名詞

比喩的用法 南アフリカ英語

(chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

日本語の意味

主に科学フィクションで用いられる、人間や他の生物の姿を模して設計された、通常は金属製の知能を持つ機械的存在

The robot paused at the doorway, its metal joints whirring softly as it considered the human's request.

知能を備えた金属製の人型ロボットは、入り口で立ち止まり、人間の頼みを考えながら金属の関節を静かに軋ませた。

意味（1）

(chiefly science fiction) 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.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

(figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.

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.

意味（4）

(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).

意味（5）

(surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.

意味（6）

(dance) A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.

robots （ plural ）