Definition of Bug

(n.)
One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
  

(n.)
One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
  

(n.)
An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
  

(n.)
A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
  

(n.)
A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
  

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bug
\bug\ (&?;), n. [oe. bugge, fr. w. bwg, bwgan, hobgoblin, scarecrow, bugbear. cf. bogey, boggle.]
1. a bugbear; anything which terrifies. [obs.] sir, spare your threats: the bug which you would fright me with i seek.
2. (zo?l.) a general name applied to various insects belonging to the hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
3. (zo?l.) an insect of the genus cimex, especially the bedbug (c. lectularius). see bedbug.
4. (zo?l.) one of various species of coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
5. (zo?l.) one of certain kinds of crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
note: according to present popular usage in england, and among housekeepers in america, bug, when not joined with some qualifying word, is used specifically for bedbug. as a general term it is used very loosely in america, and was formerly used still more loosely in england. "god's rare workmanship in the ant, the poorest bug that creeps." (. "this bug with gilded wings."

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" annoy; bother."

bother, irritate, get to me That scraping noise bugs me. It's quite annoying.

(someone) bother, irritate

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That scraping noise bugs me. It's quite annoying.

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Drewbryf = n. bug

Hwdwg = n. a bugbear, a bug

a bugbear, a spectre

1. malady, especially a virus infection; 2. idea or belief with which one is obsessed; 3. microphone hidden in a room to tap conversation; 4. (capital) a Volkswagon car of the first type produced; 5. install a bug in (a room, etc.); 6. cause annoyance or distress to (a person); 7. small crab

picture theatre; cinema

hair comb

money

small crab (Moreton Bay Bug)

small crab

1. to annoy, to bother
2. to spy on via a concealed microphone

to exchange a material for one of less value

noun. Prison slang for a mentally ill inmate. Psychiatrists and psychologists are called "bug doctors". Mental institutions are also known as "bughouses".

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Noun
1. general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
(hypernym) insect
2. a fault or defect in a system or machine
(synonym) glitch
(hypernym) defect, fault, flaw
3. a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
(hypernym) microphone, mike
(derivation) wiretap, tap, intercept
4. insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
(synonym) hemipterous insect, hemipteran, hemipteron
(hypernym) insect
(hyponym) leaf bug, plant bug
(member-holonym) Hemiptera, order Hemiptera
5. a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
(synonym) microbe, germ
(hypernym) microorganism

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Verb
1. annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
(synonym) tease, badger, pester, beleaguer
(hypernym) torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
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?"
(synonym) wiretap, tap, intercept
(hypernym) listen in, eavesdrop

1. A concealed microphone or listening device or other audiosurveillance device. 2. To install means for audiosurveillance.
  

1. A concealed microphone or listening device or other audiosurveillance device. [JP1] (188 ) href="http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-001/_0063.htm#188">188 ) 2. A mistake in a computer program. 3. To install means for audiosurveillance. [JP1] 4. A semiautomatic telegraph key. 5. A mistake or malfunction. (188 )

True bugs are insects of the suborder Heteroptera (order Hemiptera). They are wingless or four-winged, with mouthparts adapted for piercing and sucking. The term bug is sometimes used to refer to any insect or similar organisms such as centipedes and mites.

A mistake, or unexpected occurrence, in a piece of software or in a piece of hardware.

To run away.

semiautomatic key

(n.) A glitch or problem in the programming which causes the game to behave erratically. (v.) To file a bug report with the /bug command. e.g. "Did you see that orc flying around CB?" "Yeah, better bug it."

Bug (Problem) File

An error in a program that must be fixed in order for the program to operate correctly.

n. 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).
Historical note: Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing COBOL ) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a glitch in the Harvard Mark II machine by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated bug in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the "Annals of the History of Computing", Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285-286.
The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads "1545 Relay #70 Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug being found". This wording establishes that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense -- and Hopper herself reports that the term `bug' was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
Indeed, the use of `bug' to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather modern use can be found in an electrical handbook from 1896 ("Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity", Theo. Audel & Co.) which says: "The term `bug' is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus." It further notes that the term is "said to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to all electric apparatus."
The latter observation may explain a common folk etymology of the term; that it came from telephone company usage, in which "bugs in a telephone cable" were blamed for noisy lines. Though this derivation seems to be mistaken, it may well be a distorted memory of a joke first current among telegraph operators more than a century ago!
Or perhaps not a joke. Historians of the field inform us that the term "bug" was regularly used in the early days of telegraphy to refer to a variety of semi-automatic telegraphy keyers that would send a string of dots if you held them down. In fact, the Vibroplex keyers (which were among the most common of this type) even had a graphic of a beetle on them (and still do)! While the ability to send repeated dots automatically was very useful for professional morse code operators, these were also significantly trickier to use than the older manual keyers, and it could take some practice to ensure one didn't introduce extraneous dots into the code by holding the key down a fraction too long. In the hands of an inexperienced operator, a Vibroplex "bug" on the line could mean that a lot of garbled Morse would soon be coming your way.
Further, the term "bug" has long been used among radio technicians to describe a device that converts electromagnetic field variations into acoustic signals. It is used to trace radio interference and look for dangerous radio emissions. Radio community usage derives from the roach-like shape of the first versions used by 19th century physicists. The first versions consisted of a coil of wire (roach body), with the two wire ends sticking out and bent back to nearly touch forming a spark gap (roach antennae).
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