android
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈændrɔɪd/
:
androide
- "Data, are there life readings on that ship?" The android sat at his post, spine rigid.
- robots and androids
- human-like androids
- build androids
So, you know, it would make sense that an Android would want to infiltrate.
- So, you know, it would make sense that an Android would want to infiltrate.
- What's going on in this fusion that androids themselves can't partake in?
- Even the genderless Android is coded as male.
- I couldn't risk becoming a second class Android citizen.
- Although you might say by then some of those might be androids.
- My favorite one is the one where the main character's father is an Android.
- And so the idea that an Android might have to give up its dream, that's really interesting.
Examples
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It's an android!
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I want to make sure nobody else can develop their own android.
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So, option one is to become an android for the rest of my life.
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You said nothing about an android being on board.
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I do not consider myself highly skilled in the area of engineering," the android explained.
Fiction book (1991) -
No one asked those androids what they really wanted.
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Commander Data, the android who sits at Ops.
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The blanket is still warm, and for a moment, the android is plainly confused.
Fiction book (1990) -
At the moment, either hypothesis was equally likely, although the android suspected his human colleagues would favor the sabotage theory.
Fiction book (1992) -
The android served tea in the same manner a human would.
Synonyms
454
2.6
A machine that people can program to do jobs automatically
67
5.8
A robot like those seen in science fiction films
21
7.2
A machine that looks and moves like a person
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9.4
A machine made to look and act like a human
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9.1
A robot that looks and acts like a real person
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7.9
A machine that moves on its own and acts like a person or animal
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9.3
A being part human and part robot that looks or acts like a man
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7.5
A machine made to look and act like a person
How Human-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
android = andro- (semi-transparent) = andro + oid
The components literally mean 'man' + '-like', but 'andro-' is a learned combining form rather than a common standalone word, so the relation is only partly accessible to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Android comes from Greek parts andr- 'man' and -oid 'like'. So an android is a 'man-like' robot, a machine made to look and act like a human, and you can see -oid meaning 'like' in the word humanoid.