English Dictionary

bug

/bʌɡ/

noun

(entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). / Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.

I found a bug in the code.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

Bugs, oysters, prawns and crabs […] are plated up on the decks of four side-by-side trawlers bobbing on the calm waters of Trinity Inlet.

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

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

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(US) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.

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(UK, obsolete, specifically) A bedbug.

Speaking of advertising changes of name, a title by which those lodging-house pests, bugs, are now often known, that of Norfolk Howards, is derived from an advertisement in which one Ephraim Bug avowed his intention of being for the future known as Norfolk Howard.

意味（6）

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

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

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A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.

He's got the flu bug.

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(informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.

I caught the skiing bug while staying in the Alps.

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(informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.

Incidentally, the camera manufacturers have had a new worry—that they might kill off the hobby, as U.S. Camera magazine put it recently—by automating to the point that real camera bugs would feel no challenge.

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A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.

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.

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

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(broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.

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

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(aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.

You look up the proper speed for the phase of flight, set the reminder bug, and then literally forget the speed. You don't read the airspeed number, you fly to the bug.

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A semi-automated telegraph key.

At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick, with his bug, as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.

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(obsolete) Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.

Sir, spare your threats: / The bug which you would fright me with I seek.

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(chiefly LGBT, "the bug") HIV.

The arguably most debated bareback practice that came to attract attention early on (and still does) was that of bug chasing, in which HIV-negative men (bug chasers) actively seek out sex with HIV-positive men (gift givers).

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

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(paleontology, slang) A trilobite.

We asked Harris if he had any recommendations about seeing the famous trilobite digs. He said we should just drive out to his claim in the Wheeler Quadrangle, and it was just fine with him if we dug a few bugs.

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(petroleum industry, slang, dated) Synonym of oil bug.

Now, only three years later, most of the major oil companies maintain staffs of these men who examine cores, classify the various types of bugs, or foraminifera, and make charts showing the depths at which each of the hundreds of types is found.

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(slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.

The bugs are the asterisks next to the apprentice's name. One bug is a five-pound allowance, two bugs equal seven pounds, and three bugs equal ten pounds.

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(slang, US, horse-racing, by extension) A young apprentice jockey.

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(printing) Synonym of union bug.

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(gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.

Because many illegal slot-machine operators here and abroad do not like to give the slot-machine player even one chance to hit the jackpot or the big bonus, they make use of a bug. This is a small, flat half-circle of iron about an inch long, which looks something like a bug.

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(gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.

Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a bug under the table.