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Definition of 'BUG' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) bug
(loosely) any insect or insectlike invertebrate.

2.  bug
Informal. any microorganism, esp. a virus:
an intestinal bug.

3.  bug
a defect, error, or imperfection, as in computer software.

4.  bug
Informal.

5.  bug
an often short-lived enthusiasm; a craze or obsession:
He's got the sports-car bug.

6.  bug
an enthusiast; fan; hobbyist:
a camera bug.

7.  bug
a hidden microphone or other electronic eavesdropping device.

8.  bug
Horse Racing. the five-pound weight allowance that can be claimed by an apprentice jockey.

9. (v.t.) bug
to install a secret listening device in or on:
The phone was bugged.

10. (v.i.) bug
(of eyes) to bulge.

11.  bug
Slang. to leave or depart (often used as a command).

12.  bug
Slang. to flee in panic.

13. (n.) Bug
a river in E central Europe, rising in W Ukraine and forming part of the boundary between Poland and Ukraine, flowing NW to the Vistula in Poland. 450 mi. (725 km) long.

14.  Bug
a river in SW Ukraine, flowing SE to the Dnieper estuary. ab. 530 mi. (850 km) long.


Definition of 'BUG' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) bug
general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

2. (noun) bug, glitch
a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

3. (noun) bug
a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

4. (noun) hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron
insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

5. (verb) microbe, bug, germ
a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

6. (verb) tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer
annoy persistently
"The children teased the boy because of his stammer"

7. (verb) wiretap, tap, intercept, bug
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?"


Definition of 'BUG' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) bug
an insect
afraid of bugs

2.  bug
an illness
to pick up a stomach bug

3.  bug
a computer or mechanical fault
a bug in the system

4.  bug
a listening device for spying
a bug in the room

5. (verb) bug
to annoy sb
Stop bugging me.

6.  bug
to spy on sb with a listening device
He was certain he was being bugged.


Definition of 'BUG' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) BUG
a bugbear; anything which terrifies

2. (noun) BUG
a general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc

3. (noun) BUG
an insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug

4. (noun) BUG
one of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle

5. (noun) BUG
one of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc


Definitions of 'BUG' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  BUG
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature. Examples: “There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backwards.” “The system crashed because of a hardware bug.” “Fred is a winner, but he has a few bugs” (i.e., Fred is a good guy, but he has a few personality problems).


Definition of 'BUG' The Standard Electrical Dictionary 

1.  BUG
Any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus.


Translation of 'BUG' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: an insect that lives in dirty houses and beds
a bedbug.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: weeluis Arabic flag Arabic: بَـقَّـه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: дървеница
Brazilian flag Brazilian: percevejo Czech flag Czech: štěnice German flag German: die Wanze
Danish flag Danish: væggelus Greek flag Greek: κοριός Spanish flag Spanish: chinche
Estonian flag Estonian: lutikas Farsi flag Farsi: شبگز؛ شپ�� Finnish flag Finnish: lude
French flag French: punaise Hebrew flag Hebrew: פִּשפֵּש Hindi flag Hindi: कीड़ा
Croatian flag Croatian: stjenica Hungarian flag Hungarian: poloska Indonesian flag Indonesian: kutu, hama
Italian flag Italian: cimice Japanese flag Japanese: なんきん虫 Korean flag Korean: 빈대
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: blakė Latvian flag Latvian: blakts Malay flag Malay: pijat
Dutch flag Dutch: insect, luis Norwegian flag Norwegian: veggelus Polish flag Polish: pluskwa
Persian flag Persian: شبگز؛ شپش Pashto flag Pashto: ګونګټه اوخسک Portuguese flag Portuguese: percevejo
Romanian flag Romanian: ploşniţă Russian flag Russian: клоп Slovak flag Slovak: ploštica
Slovenian flag Slovenian: stenica Serbian flag Serbian: stenica Swedish flag Swedish: vägglus
Thai flag Thai: แมลง Turkish flag Turkish: (küçük) böcek Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 臭蟲
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: блощиця Urdu flag Urdu: گندے گھروں اور بستروں میں Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: con rệp
Chinese flag Chinese: 臭虫

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