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What is the difference between droid and android?

What is the difference between droid and android?
Droid is a derived term of android. As nouns the difference between droid and android is that droid is a robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human while android is a robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male). As a adjective android is possessing human qualities.

droid

English

(wikipedia droid )

Alternative forms

* ‘droid

Noun

(en noun )

  • A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1952
    , date = July
    , first = Mari
    , last = Wolf
    , authorlink =
    , title = Robots of the World! Arise!
    , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31611
    , magazine =
    , volume = 1
    , issue = 3
    , page = 76
    , passage = It’s crazy. They’re swarming all over Carron City. They’re stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids , all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them.
    }}

  • * 1976 , , Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker , New York: Ballantine Books, p 77:
  • “These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly.
  • * 1995 , J. D. Robb, Glory in Death , page 39:
  • The bartender was a droid , as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers’ hard luck stories.

    Anagrams

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    android

    English

    (wikipedia android )

    Alternative forms

    * androides (dated)

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • A robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male)
  • Derived terms

    * droid

    Hypernyms

    * robot

    Hyponyms

    * gynoid, fembot

    See also

    * cyborg

    Adjective

    (en adjective )

  • Possessing human qualities
  • Anagrams

    *
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