Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Possessing human features.
- n. An automaton that is created from biological materials and resembles a human. Also called humanoid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An automaton resembling a human being in shape and motions.
Wiktionary
- n. A robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male)
- adj. Possessing human qualities
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- n. an automaton that resembles a human being
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andros), genitive of ἀνήρ (anēr, "man") + -eides ("of the species; alike"), from eidos ("species") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My Tracks on the android is a fantastic (and free) app for recording your jogging/walking/biking routes that includes uploading of stats and route to google docs – highly recommended.”
Five Best Exercise Planning And Tracking Tools | Lifehacker Australia
“If the android is an utterly familiar trope, or rationalised to the most rigorous degree, or both, surely it can't continue to function as a novum.”
“Furthermore, android is the correct term for a masculine robot and gynoid is the term for a feminine robot.”
“Zhang Chunxiang/Xinhua/Zumapress.com Humanoid robots are defined as android robots designed in human forms, with two legs and two arms.”
“I (and Dictionary. com) think of "- oid" as indicating "like"; an android is like a man, rather than a tidbit of a man!”
“The non-judgemental attitude of the android is perfect for telling the story while remaining detached from any ethical dilemmas, and the mixture of high tech gadgets and a familiar English backdrop makes a pleasing combination.”
“For Mr. Hanson the missing android is an open sore, straining his relations with Mr. Dick's foundation and the author's two surviving daughters, who provided access to much of Mr. Dick's nonpublished materials, which were downloaded into the android's brain.”
“A robot intelligence rebuilt his body in android form, he has a mastery of time and space travel and mental powers beyond the minor telepathies he employed before.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Transition of Titus Crow - Brian Lumley
“The android is constructed using silicone and steel and sometimes replace the roboticist in his meetings and classes.”
“I heard of other phones like this called android and hell, even my old slvr allowed me to post tweets and respond to pokes on facebook.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘android’.
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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Technologos
Cool technology-related words.
transclusion, interpolation, hypertext, munge, arpabet, dissemination, meta, orthogonal, discombobulated, postcyberpunk, asynchronicity, octothorpe and 27 more...
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-oids
words taking the suffix -oid. because i wanted to use the word zomboid as in "having the likeness of a zombie". and yes, flavenoids is adopted. we'll tell her when she's older...
zomboid, rhomboid, planetoid, factoid, humanoid, asteroid, trapezoid, alkaloid, android, voidoid, woidies, metroid and 22 more...
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Humanoids
Magical, mechanical, or medical. All man-made.
golem, android, humanoid, Frankenstein, inukshuk, bioroid, replicant, biorobot, automaton, gynoid, droid, cyborg and 12 more...
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Words of Tomorrow
Futuristic words for the atomic age!
laser, nuclear, clone, zephyr, byte, jetpack, android, bot, shatner, vulcan, voltron, nano
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Bodily
wigwag, caprae, hylozoism, abiogenesis, whorl, entropy, anima, anthropoid, avatar, symbiont, symbiote, android and 34 more...
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automachine
robot, automaton, drone, unmanned aerial v..., u.a.v., u.c.a.v., skynet, replicator, cyborg, artificial intell..., a.i., h.a.l. and 16 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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Star Trek and Star Wars
Ridiculous American cheese, but entertaining all the same.
navigational shields, antiprotons, deflector, superluminal, spock, vulcan, warp speed, warp, captain, united earth, lieutenant, commander and 51 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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dscapuano's list
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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andro-, -andry, -androus
man; male
androgenous, polyandry, polyandrous, diandrous, android, monandrous
Tweets
Looking for tweets for android.
bookhling I can not understand why, I just love this word. I get a strange urge to buy anything with android as its name. Jul 17, 2008