Etymologies
- 1976, from android via apocope. Originally written with an apostrophe, as ’droid. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It appears as though your dictation droid is a 'malfunctioning little twerp', as it has left a typo on your most recent post.”
““Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the original iconic Star Wars film, this replica of the headstrong astromech droid is a full-function, 628 x 528 pixel web camera that wirelessly transmits real-time video and audio to a computer, and has worldwide remote access capabilities, allowing you to control R2-D2’s movements and access the web camera from a laptop or a PC anywhere in the world.””
“From what I've seen so far, the droid is a killer concept, a killer look with killer functionality.”
Michael Boland: Happy Droid Day: Please Stop Saying "iPhone Killer"
“It seems the droid is a MARK 13, the government's latest experimental combat model.”
“I can ALMOST understand "droid" being coined a new term by Star Wars, but it's still just a shortening of "Android".”
The Estate of Philip K. Dick Threatening Google With Legal Action | /Film
“The obvious reason to go for this one is because it has the word "droid" in its name, so you feel like you're doing your bit for the community somehow.”
“I can browse the full web on a 50$ java phone or an iphone or a droid which is actually awesome.”
“The new owner will rename the app Twidroyd to avoid legal trouble with Lucas Films, trademark owner of the term "droid".”
“The new owner will rename the app Twidroyd to avoid legal trouble with Lucas Films, trademark owner of the term "droid". popurls, which has long been placing the most popular items from the NY Times, Twitter, Digg,”
“Apparantly, the word 'droid' is owned by LucasFilm.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘droid’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 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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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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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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Activated Phonemes
This list was generated by first taking a letter from the alphabet, or any of the initial cluster set of phonesthemes compiled by the ingenious Benjamin Shisler) and then sticking one of the suffix...
bing, ding, ging, jing, ling, ming, king, ping, ring, sing, ting, wing and 189 more...
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Skip The Light Fontastic
Fonts whose names are wacky, powerful, intriguing, whimsical, exotic and so on.
buttzilla, consolas, trebuchet, chanticleer, earthpig, dwarves, ciao, ghost town, goodfish, i still know, gorilla milkshake, immoral and 212 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Science Fiction Double Feature
cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, sci-fi, steampunk, techsploitation, dystopia, transhumanism, posthuman, future, skiffy, comlink, transmogrifier and 38 more...
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Artificial Intelligence
Names for thinking machines and man-machine combinations in fiction and real life.
robot, bot, android, droid, mechanical man, mecha, automaton, replicant, cyborg, borg, bionic man, cybernetic organism and 10 more...
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All About Trapster
A list of words related to Trapster, speed traps, speed cameras, red light cameras, and other road hazards and enforcement points.
speed camera, speeding, police, enforcement, law enforcement, red light cameras, trapster, gps, driving, geolocation, crowdsourced, navigation and 16 more...
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Star Wars words
May the force be with all Star Wars nerds.
force, jedi, knight, sith, republic, midi-chlorians, senator, ship, hutt, alderaan, rebel alliance, galaxy and 55 more...
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2009 in Review
The words of 2009, so I remember why/when I came across them in the first place.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for droid.
lampbane Registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. Nov 24, 2009