bug
noun
1. general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
Definition categories: animal, insect
2. a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
Similar word(s): glitch
Definition categories: state, defect, fault, flaw
3. a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
Definition categories: man–made, mic, microphone, mike
4. insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
Similar word(s): hemipteran
Definition categories: animal, insect
5. a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
Similar word(s): germ, microbe
Definition categories: animal, microorganism
Sentences with bug as a noun:
- These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
- The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.
- He’s got the flu bug.
- I think he’s a gold bug, he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.
- to catch the skiing bug
- We installed a bug in her telephone
- He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
- Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show
verb
1. annoy persistently
Similar word(s): badger, beleaguer, pester, tease
Definition categories: emotion, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment
2. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- Is this hotel room bugged?
Similar word(s): intercept, tap, wiretap
Definition categories: perception, eavesdrop
Sentences with bug as a verb:
- Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
- We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.