Dictionary Definition
bug
Noun
1 general term for any insect or similar creeping
or crawling invertebrate
2 a fault or defect in a system or machine [syn:
glitch]
3 a small hidden microphone; for listening
secretly
4 insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings
thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete
metamorphosis [syn: hemipterous
insect, hemipteran, hemipteron]
5 a minute life form (especially a
disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use [syn:
microbe, germ]
Verb
1 annoy persistently; "The children teased the
boy because of his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, beleaguer]
2 tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get
information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected
spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?" [syn: wiretap, tap, intercept] [also: bugging, bugged]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /bʌɡ/, /bVg/
Noun
- An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
- A colloquial name
for any insect or
arachnid that’s a pest.
- These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
- Various species of marine crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug.
- A problem that needs
fixing, especially in
computing.
- The computer program has a bug in it.
- A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus
causing it.
- He’s got the flu bug.
- An enthusiasm for
something; an obsession.
- I think he’s a gold bug, he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.
- to catch the skiing bug
- I think he’s a gold bug, he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.
- An electronic
listening device.
- We installed a bug in her telephone.
- A small or invisible image on a World Wide
Web page, used to track persons who viewed it.
- He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
- A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a
television program to
indicate what network or
cable channel is televising it.
- He did not like the network bug that appeared onscreen.
- A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- A semi-automated telegraph
key.
- 1938, Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport, p257
- At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes "Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick," with his bug, as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.
- 1942, Arthur Reinhold Nilson, Radio Code Manual, p134
- As far as the dashes are concerned, the bug is the same in operation as any regular key would be if it were turned up on edge instead of sitting flat on the desk.
- 1986, E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, p282
- I was a very good radio operator. I bought my own bug. That's what the telegraph key in its modern form was called. It was semiautomatic.
- 1938, Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport, p257
Translations
an insect of the order Hemiptera
a colloquial name for insect
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 蟲, 虫 (chóng)
- Dutch: insect
- Finnish: ötökkä
- French: insecte
- German: Wanze
- Greek: κοριός, ζωύφιο
- Hebrew: ג'וק (juq)
- Italian: bacarozzo
- Japanese: 虫 (mushi)
- Maltese: insett żgħir
- Polish: robak, robal , owad
- Portuguese: inseto
- Russian: насекомое
- Slovene: žužek
- Turkish: böcek
various species of marine crustaceans
problem that needs fixing (esp. in computing)
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 錯誤, 错误 (cuò wù)
- Czech: chyba
- Dutch: bug
- Finnish: bugi
- French: bogue
- German:
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- In software: Fehler , Fehlfunktion
-
- Greek:
- Italian: malfunzionamento, errore
- Japanese: qualifier general 不具合; qualifier general バグ
- Maltese: bagg
- Polish: byk
- Portuguese: defeito , falha
- Russian: баг (bag)
- Slovene: hrošč
contagious illness, bacteria, virus
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 病菌, 病菌 (bìng jùn)
- Finnish: pöpö
- German: Ungeziefer
- Greek: ιός
- Italian: batterio, virus
- Japanese: ばい菌
- Maltese: infezzjoni, vajrus
an enthusiasm for something
an electronic listening device
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 竊聽器, 窃听器 (qiē tīng qì)
- Czech: štěnice
- Finnish: salakuuntelulaite,kuuntelulaite
- French: mouchard
- Greek: κοριός
- Italian: cimice
- Japanese: 盗聴器
- Polish: pluskwa
- Portuguese: qualifier Brazil grampo
- Russian: жучок (žučók)
a small or invisible image on a World Wide Web
page
a small image placed in a corner of a television
program
manually positioned marker in flight
instruments
a card cheat's bug is a holdout device
a semi-automated telegraph key
See also
- Balmain bug
- bedbug
- bug-eyed
- gold bug
- lightning bug
- mealybug
- Morton Bay bug
- shield bug
- snug as a bug in a rug
- travel bug
- true bug
Verb
Translations
to annoy
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 煩擾, 烦扰 (fán rǎo)
- Finnish: häiritä, ärsyttää
- French: ennerver , enquiquiner
- German: nerven
- Greek: τρώω
- Japanese: 邪魔をする
- Polish: qualifier informal and usually impolite wkurzać
- Portuguese: chatear
- Slovene: živcirati (colloq)
- Turkish: kızdırmak
to install an electronic listening device in
Danish
Extensive Definition
Bug or BUG can refer to:
Biology
- Formally, an insect of the order Hemiptera, also known as the "true bugs". (Outdated taxonomies sometimes use the name Heteroptera.)
- More colloquially, any arthropod (excepting most crustaceans); includes insects, but also non-insects such as spiders and centipedes.
- Informally, a pathogen such as virus or bacteria that causes illness
- A hybrid of a Pug and a Boston Terrier
- One of several species of slipper lobster, such as the Moreton Bay bug and the Balmain bug.
- Informally, a euphemism for bacteria.
Technology
- Software bug, or a software defect
- Covert listening device
- Device for telephone tapping
- Integrated circuit chip, for its buglike appearance
- Manually positioned marker in flight instruments
- A semi-automated telegraph key
- Volkswagen Beetle (slang)
- A North American term for a digital on-screen graphic, generally used as a form of television station identification
- Web bug, an object that is embedded in a web page or e-mail that allows checking that a user has viewed the page or e-mail
- The Kettering Bug, an early cruise missile.
Art and media
- Bug (2007 film), psychological thriller directed by William Friedkin
- Bug (2007 soundtrack), soundtrack of the film Bug (2007)
- Bug (2002 film), (2002) comedy-drama about a chain of events begun by a boy squashing a bug
- Bug (1975 film), a film directed by Jeannot Szwarc in 1975
- Bug (Starship Troopers), a fictional alien race from the novel and film Starship Troopers
- Bug (play), thriller/black comedy
- Bug (Dinosaur Jr. album), a 1988 album by Dinosaur Jr
- Bug (Dave Davies album), a 2002 album by Dave Davies
- "Bug," a song by Phish from their 2000 album Farmhouse
- BUG Magazine, Croatian magazine
- Bug! and Bug Too! video games
- Bug, a character in the Marvel comic book series The Micronauts
Other
- Bug (poker), a restricted wild card
- A card cheat's bug is a holdout device
- Western Bug, a river in Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus
- Southern Bug, a river in Ukraine
- bug, ISO 639 code for the Buginese language
- Bicycle User Group
- A union label is sometimes called a bug.
bug in Catalan: Bug
bug in Czech: Bug
bug in Danish: Bug
bug in German: Bug
bug in Spanish: Bug
bug in Esperanto: BUG
bug in French: Bug
bug in Italian: BUG
bug in Hungarian: Bug
bug in Japanese: BUG
bug in Norwegian: Bug
bug in Norwegian Nynorsk: Bug
bug in Occitan (post 1500): Bug (omonimia)
bug in Kölsch: BUG (Watt ėßß datt?)
bug in Simple English: Bug
bug in Finnish: Bugi
bug in Swedish: Bug
bug in Thai: บั๊ก
bug in Chinese: 臭虫
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ALGOL,
COBOL, FORTRAN, Mumbo Jumbo, abrade, addict, addle, addle the wits, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria,
aficionado, aggravate, agitate, alphabetic data,
alphanumeric code, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria,
angular data, annoy, apply
pressure, arachnid,
arthropod, assembler, attend, attend to, auscultate, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, badger, bag, bait, ball up, balloon, be all ears, be at,
becloud, bedazzle, bedevil, beetle, befuddle, belly, belly out, bend an ear,
beset, besiege, bewilder, bigot, bilge, billow, binary digit, binary
scale, binary system, bit,
blandish, blemish, bogey, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, bother, bouge, bristle, brown off, buff, bugaboo, bugbear, bugger, bulge, bullyrag, burn up, buttonhole, byte, cajole, carp at, case, catch, caterpillar, centipede, chafe, chilopod, chivy, cloud, coax, coccus, cock the ears, collector, command pulses,
commands, compiler, computer code,
computer language, computer program, confuse, control signals,
controlled quantity, convulse, correcting signals,
crack, crank, craze, crazy fancy, daddy
longlegs, data, daze, dazzle, defect, defection, deficiency, demon, devil, devotee, dilate, diplopod, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disease-producing
microorganism, disorganize, disorient, distemper, distend, distract, disturb, dog, drawback, dun, eager beaver, eavesdrop, echovirus, embarrass, embroil, energumen, entangle, enterovirus, enthusiasm, enthusiast, error, error signals, examine by
ear, exasperate,
exercise, exert
pressure, faddist,
failing, failure, fan, fanatic, fanatico, fascination, fash, fault, faute, fee-faw-fum, feedback
pulses, feedback signals, fiend, film data, filterable
virus, flaw, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fly, fog, foible, frailty, freak, fret, fret at, fuddle, fungus, furor, furore, fuss, fuss at, gall, germ, get, give attention, give audience
to, give ear, goggle,
gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, great one for,
gripe, harass, hark, harry, harvestman, hassle, hear, hear out, hearken, heckle, hector, heed, henpeck, hexadecimal system,
hexapod, hobbyist, hole, hound, imperfection, importune, inadequacy, infatuate, infatuation, infirmity, information, input data,
input quantity, insect,
instructions,
intercept, irk, kink, larva, lend an ear, listen, listen at, listen in,
listen to, little problem, lunatic fringe, machine language,
maggot, make a
reconnaissance, mania,
maniac, manic-depressive
psychosis, maze, message, microbe, microorganism, microphone, miff, mike, millepede, millipede, mist, mite, mix up, moider, mold, molest, monomaniac, muddle, multiple messages,
nag, nag at, needle, nettle, nibble at, noise, nonfilterable virus,
nudzh, numeric data,
nut, nymph, octal system, oscillograph
data, output data, output quantity, passion, pathogen, peck at, peep, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, pester, pick at, pick on,
picornavirus,
pique, plague, play, play the spy, pluck the
beard, ply, polar data,
pooch, pop, pother, pouch, pout, press, pressure, problem, protozoa, protozoon, provoke, psych, punch-card data, pursuer, push, put out, put under
surveillance, radiomicrophone,
rage, raise hell, random
data, rattle, reconnoiter, rectangular
data, reference quantity, reovirus, rhapsodist, rhinovirus, rickettsia, ride, rift, rile, roil, round out, ruffle, ruly English, scorpion, scout, scout out, shortcoming, signals, single messages, sit in
on, snag, something
missing, spider, spirillum, spirochete, spook, spore, spy, spy out, stake out, staphylococcus, streptococcus, sucker for,
swell, swell out, taint, tap, tarantula, tease, throw, throw into confusion,
tick, torment, trouble, try the patience,
trypanosome, tweak
the nose, unorganized data, unsettle, upset, urge, vex, vibrio, virus, visible-speech data,
visionary, vulnerable
place, watch, weak link,
weak point, weakness,
wheedle, wiretap, work on, worry, yap at, zealot