different between gynoid vs cyborg

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a??n??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Etymology 1

From gyno- +? android.

Noun

gynoid (plural gynoids)

1. (science fiction) An android (humanoid robot) in female form.
   • 2000, Thomas J. Sanders, God's Fire, Trafford Publishing, page 58,

     She was obviously a skillful surgeon. She expertly cleaned and sterilized the gaping holes in the gynoid’s chest and back.

   • 2006, Sharalyn Orbagh, 5: Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives, Steven T. Brown (editor), Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation, Springer, page 99,

     Purchased as sex toys, the gynoids are programmed to love and sexually serve male humans; the aberrant violence of one particular model, called "Hadaly," is a mystery to the company that manufactures them. They should not be able to kill humans, nor should they have any desire to commit suicide, since they should have no real sense of self.⁴⁴ Batõ and his new partner, Togusa (who was Kusanagi's partner in the previous film), spend the rest of the film trying to discover how the gynoids have acquired their faulty programming—is it the work of a terrorist hacker, for example, targeting prominent men?

   • 2013, Nickie D. Phillips, Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way, New York University Press, page 82,

     She is embodied as a bright blue feminized robot, much like the mechanized gynoids in the classic film Metropolis (1928).

Synonyms

• fembot, robotess

Hypernyms

• android

Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

gynoid (not comparable)

1. Gynaecoid.
2. (biology, anatomy) Of, pertaining to or following the distribution pattern of the type of body fat, more prevalent in women, that forms around the hips, breasts and thighs and is relatively rich in the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids which are important in the development of foetuses.
   • 1987, Richard J. Wurtman, Judith J. Wurtman, Human Obesity, New York Academy of Sciences, page 71,

     The work intensity and duration was identical in android and gynoid obese women in this study, making it unlikely that energy expenditure in the training program was different in these two groups.

   • 2008, Sharon Plowman, Denise Smith, Exercise Physiology for Health, Fitness, and Performance, Benjamin Cummings, Wolters Kluwer, 2nd Edition, page 219,

     Alpha-receptors predominate in the lower body and are thus more abundant in the gynoid pattern.

   • 2008, Randy Thornhill, Steven W. Gangestad, The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality, Oxford University Press, page 114,

     As a result, measured ratios of estrogen to testosterone in women predict their ratios of gynoid fat to android fat (Singh, 1993, 1995, 2002a,b; Kirchengast et al., 1997). As should also be expected, women with higher ratios of gynoid to android fat are more fertile than their counterparts with lower ratios (Kirchengast et al., 1997; Singh, 1993, 1995, 2002a,b}.

Derived terms

• gynoid pattern (gluteofemoral pattern, pear pattern)

Translations

Further reading

• Android fat distribution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dongyi

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