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bug | American Dictionary

bug
noun
us/bʌɡ/

bugnoun (INSECT)

[ C ]
an insect:
Some tiny white bugs had eaten the leaves of my house plants.
[ C ]
A bug is also a small organism that causes an illness:
The flu bug is going around, and almost everyone is sick.

bugnoun (FAULT)

[ C ]
a mistake or problem in the way something works:
He said they had eliminated all the bugs in the software, and we hoped this was true.

bugnoun (DEVICE)

[ C ]
a small device that is easily hidden, used to record people’s conversations without their knowledge

bugnoun (ENTHUSIASM)

[ U ]infml
a strong enthusiasm for something:
When I was about 17, I was bitten by the acting bug and began to try out for parts.
bug
verb[ T ]
us/bʌɡ/-gg-

bugverb[T] (ANNOY)

infml
to annoy someone repeatedly:
My lawyer is bugging me for stuff I just don’t have.

bugverb[T] (HIDE DEVICE)

to hide a listening device in something:
She suspected that her phone had been bugged.

bug | Business English

bug
noun[ C ]
 ITuk /bʌɡ/us
a mistake or problem in a computer program:
The latest update fixes several known bugs in the script.
Please submit all bug reports to the IT department.

Examples of bug

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In practice, this capability is quite useful in discovering 'hard-to-find' bugs.
It must be this scientific 'bug' about research, collecting data and processing them with aid of a computer which is at work.
All are vulnerable to software bugs, however, at any time and so the liability of software companies needs to be ascertained.
There are also some bugs in the exercises, which may or may not have been corrected.
In return for obeying the type rules, the programmer is rewarded with compile-time error messages instead of run-time bugs.
These entities may be called demons or "the evil," animalculi or bugs, bacteria or viruses.
Unfortunately, a bug has crept into the adapted code, leading to a black hole.
It commonly takes a few iterations before one begins to find bugs in the program itself.
The parasites appeared to be merely digested by the bug, the rate of digestion being governed by the temperature at which the insects were maintained.
Intercropping facilitated a reduction in the cowpea bug infestation and in flea beetles on okra.
He viewed the detection and repair of a ' 'bug' ' or a protection violation to be a central aspect of this process.
This security bug was later fixed by the developers when the second author made them aware of the problem.
If the answer is that the result is incorrect, then there must be a bug in the applied function.
The story follows the mama bug and baby as they get the baby ready for bed.
And there appear to be a few bugs (subliminal images appeared when they presumably should not have on following some of the menu options).
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