different between fyborg vs cyborg

English

Etymology

Blend of functional +? cyborg.

Noun

fyborg (plural fyborgs)

1. Any biological organism having extended functions provided by technology

English

Etymology

Blend of cybernetic +? organism. Coined by Austrian neuroscientist Manfred Clynes in 1960.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sa?.b??(?)?/

Noun

cyborg (plural cyborgs)

1. (science fiction) A person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic.
2. (science fiction) A robot who has an organic past.
3. A human with electronic or bionic prostheses.

Quotations

• 1981, Teri (Pettit at PARC-MAXC), fa.sf-lovers newsgroup, "Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V3 #122", May 15:

  I would not classify the Tin Woodman as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg, if anything.

• 1991, Timothy K. Smith, "Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love -- He's Got the Printouts", The Wall Street Journal, September 24, front page:

  Prof. Clynes is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe a new science entirely of his own devising.

• 2002, Thomas Jones, "Short Cuts", London Review of Books Vol. 24 No. 18, September 19:

  ... Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Warwick is no stranger to publicity. His autobiography, I, Cyborg, which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances. With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention. That isn't the main thrust of the book, though, which is rather an account of why he is turning himself into a cyborg.

• 2003, David Simpson, "Are we still tragic?", guardian.co.uk (exclusive from London Review of Books Vol. 25 No. 7, April 3), April 1:

  The cyborg subject, with its pacemakers, drug regimes and artificial limbs, is usually also the first world middle to upper-class economic subject with a conscious incentive to preserve life for as long as possible under the best possible conditions.

• 2003, Anthony Lane, "The Current Cinema -- Metal Guru", The New Yorker, July 14:

  On the track of John and Kate is the T-X (Kristanna Loken), a blond female cyborg so metallically single-minded, and so impervious to blandishment and punishment alike, that, from where I was sitting, she looked to be our best hope of getting a woman into the Oval Office.

Synonyms

• bion
• cybernetic organism
• cyberman

Related terms

• borg

Translations

References

Further reading

• cyborg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

cyborg m (plural cyborg)

1. cyborg

Polish

Etymology

From English cyborg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?.b?rk/

Noun

cyborg m anim

1. cyborg (person who is part machine)

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) cyborgizacja

Further reading

• cyborg in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cyborg in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

cyborg m (plural cyborgs)

1. cyborg