Word Finder - bug

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An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).

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Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.

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Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.

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These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.

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Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.

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(chiefly computing and engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.

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The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 3.

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• defect
• glitch

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A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it

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He’s got the flu bug.

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An enthusiasm for something; an obsession

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I caught the skiing bug while staying in the Alps.

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A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.

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A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device

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We installed a bug in her telephone.

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A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.

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He suspected the image was a Web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.

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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

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Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show.

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A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.

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A semi-automated telegraph key.

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Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.

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• bog
• bogey
• boggard
• boggle
• bogle
• bugbear

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("the bug") HIV.

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A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.

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A trilobite.

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A young apprentice jockey.

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To annoy.

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Don’t bug me, I’m busy!

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To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

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We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.

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A microfossil, particularly a foraminiferan.

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• bug

A bug crawled across her leg, and she swiped it away.

Is bug very happy?

It was your bug on my phone, wasn't it?

We picked up their voices on our bug in your house but by the time we figured out what was going on, you were already there and we backed off.

I'll squash you like a bug.

Two large rivers, which numerous tributaries, drain the government - the Dniester, which forms its boundary with Bessarabia and is navigable throughout its length, and the Bug, which flows almost parallel to the former in a higher, sometimes swampy, valley, and is interrupted at several places by rapids.

The Heteroptera can be traced back farther than any other winged insects if the fossil Protocimex silurica Moberg, from the Ordovician slates of Sweden is rightly regarded as the wing of a bug.

No anti-virus program currently detects this bug.

Pajamas retailer Snug as a Bug has a large selection of pajamas for everyone, including plenty of men's footed pajamas.

If you catch the wholesale lingerie bug, there are plenty of other fine retailers who also offer their lingerie at an ideal price.

The only problem I've had is with an occasional bug in the firmware.

If you're feeling adventurous, purchase some real edible insects, such as chocolate-covered grasshoppers or bug suckers with a real bug encased in a sugary shell.

By the peace of Jassy, signed in January 1792, she retained Ochakov and the coast between the Bug and the Dniester, and she secured certain privileges for the Danubian principalities, but the Turks remained in Constantinople, and the realization of the famous Greek project, as it was termed, had to be indefinitely postponed.

At his death in 1025 he left Poland one of the mightiest states of Europe, extending from the Bug to the Elbe, and from the Baltic to the Danube, and possessing besides the overlordship of Russia.

Once you have been bitten by the bug, you will want to get started straight away.

In order for the University to continue to function smoothly in the new year, such equipment must also be millenium bug proof.

Pests The only pest on lavender is the green capsid bug or cuckoo spit.

It will be necessary to install another bugzilla module that creates bugzilla bug reports from email messages.

Once they have found a suitable bug, they need to test whether it produces cellulase.

It is very similar to the one produced by the gut bug clostridium, which causes chronic diarrhea.

I think it was a bacterial conjugation (genetic exchange from one bug to another) experiment.

Just as we had perfected our new debugging method, called ' bug exportation, ' a man with your abilities comes to us.

Daxter takes on a job as a pest exterminator to help wipe out a nasty bug outbreak.

He is soon able to put his newfound faith to the test when the colony comes under attack from bug exterminator Stan Beals.

There are a few typedef fiddles I'd like to add, then I'll cut a bug fix release.

Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) is a bug which is a specific cause of chronic inflammation of the intestine in many animals.

A bug hunting trip as far as the mud sump.

Fashion Bug has it all -- plus size clothing, accessories and lingerie -- with reasonable prices and cute and flattering styles that women of any age can wear.

Per Steve Gibson, all Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows SE and Windows ME systems are not vulnerable to the WMF bug and don't need the patch.

Finally, the Costume Page has a good selection of costumes you can make yourself, from a bug catcher to a ballerina, a gothic chic to a big baby.

Snug as a Bug carries a variety of great styles.

At Snug As a Bug, a maker of a lot of novelty pajamas for the whole family, you can get teddy bear pajamas in either pale or chocolate brown.

Hit by the singing bug, Madonna would go on to form various groups.

New Zealand born and Australian raised, Urban caught the music bug early in life, professing his desire to be a country singer by age 7.

Don't bug the sound engineer to get a sound desk feed recording - it's not going to happen.

In the meantime, younger brother Joe caught the acting bug and began appearing Broadway shows as well.

She also did voiceover work for the film A Bug's Life, and the animated series Kim Possible.

She could not shake the musical bug and spent time at college working on demo recordings with fellow students.

Their first IG Records release was 2009's Poseidon and The Bitter Bug.

If you've got a mosquito problem on your hands, rent some bug zappers or citronella torches.

Make bug spray available to party guests, and consider burning citronella candles and/or tiki torches with citronella liquid to cut down on unwanted critters.

While in rural New York, JWOWW caught the computer programming bug and studied computer programming science for about three years.

Ray J developed the family creative bug at an early age, and by age eight, he was co-starring on The Sinbad Show.

He caught the political bug as a child when his father was serving in the Arkansas State House of Representatives and has political ambitions of his own for the future.

Bug spray containing DEET has been proven as the best protection against mosquito bites, along with practical sense.

Bed bug symptoms can vary from mildly irritating to extremely painful, depending on the size of the infestation and the life stages of the infecting bugs.

Bed bug symptoms appear after the tiny bloodsucking creature has bitten the victim.

During a bed bug bite, the insect injects the victim with its saliva and pierces the skin with a second injecting tube that it uses to extract blood from the host.

Cimicosis is a skin condition that occurs because of bed bug bites.

This denotes the feeding trail of the offending bug or bugs.