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W0098150 (bo͞og, bo͞ok)1. also Western Bug A river of eastern Europe rising in southwest Ukraine and flowing about 770 km (480 mi) through Poland to the Vistula River near Warsaw.2. also Southern Bug A river of southern Ukraine rising in the southwest part and flowing about 853 km (530 mi) generally southeast to the Black Sea.

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B0534300 (bŭg)n.1. a. An insect having mouthparts used for piercing and sucking, such as an aphid, a bedbug, or a stinkbug.b. An insect of any kind, such as a cockroach or a ladybug.c. A small invertebrate with many legs, such as a spider or a centipede.2. a. A disease-producing microorganism or agent: a flu bug.b. The illness or disease so produced: took several days to get over the bug.3. a. A defect or difficulty, as in a system or design.b. Computers A defect in the code or routine of a program.4. An enthusiasm or obsession: got bitten by the writing bug.5. An enthusiast or devotee; a buff: a model train bug.6. An electronic listening device, such as a hidden microphone or wiretap, used in surveillance: planted a bug in the suspect's room.v. bugged, bug·ging, bugs v.intr. To grow large; bulge: My eyes bugged when I saw the mess.v.tr.1. a. To annoy; pester.b. To prey on; worry: a memory that bugged me for years.2. To equip (a room or telephone circuit, for example) with a concealed electronic listening device.3. To make (the eyes) bulge or grow large.Phrasal Verbs: bug off Slang To leave someone alone; go away. bug out Slang 1. To leave or quit, usually in a hurry.2. To avoid a responsibility or duty. Often used with on or of: bugged out on his partners at the first sign of trouble.Idiom: put a bug in (someone's) ear Informal To impart useful information to (another) in a subtle, discreet way.

[Perhaps alteration (influenced by obsolete bug, hobgoblin; see bugbear) of Middle English boude, budde, beetle, weevil, from Old English -budda as in scearnbudda, dung beetle; akin to Low German dialectal budde, louse.]

bug′ger n.

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(bʌɡ) n1. (Animals) any insect of the order Hemiptera, esp any of the suborder Heteroptera, having piercing and sucking mouthparts specialized as a beak (rostrum). See also assassin bug, bedbug, chinch bug2. (Zoology) chiefly US and Canadian any insect, such as the June bug or the Croton bug3. (Microbiology) informal a. a microorganism, esp a bacterium, that produces diseaseb. a disease, esp a stomach infection, caused by a microorganism4. informal an obsessive idea, hobby, etc; craze (esp in the phrases get the bug, be bitten by the bug, the bug bites, etc)5. informal a person having such a craze; enthusiast6. (Computer Science) (often plural) informal an error or fault, as in a machine or system, esp in a computer or computer program7. informal a concealed microphone used for recording conversations, as in spying8. (Card Games) US (in poker) a joker used as an ace or wild card to complete a straight or flushvb, bugs, bugging or bugged9. (tr) to irritate; bother10. (tr) to conceal a microphone in (a room, etc)11. (Anatomy) (intr) US (of eyes) to protrude[C16: of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old English budda beetle]

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(bʌɡ) n (European Myth & Legend) obsolete an evil spirit or spectre; hobgoblin[C14 bugge, perhaps from Middle Welsh bwg ghost. See also bugbear, bugaboo]

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(bʌɡ) vb a past tense and past participle of big²

Bug

(Russian buk) n1. (Placename) Also called: Southern Bug a river in E Europe, rising in W Ukraine and flowing southeast to the Dnieper estuary and the Black Sea. Length: 853 km (530 miles)2. (Placename) Also called: Western Bug a river in E Europe, rising in SW Ukraine and flowing northwest to the River Vistula in Poland, forming part of the border between Poland and Ukraine. Length: 724 km (450 miles)

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n., v. bugged, bug•ging. n. 1. Also called true bug. any insect of the order Hemiptera, characterized by sucking mouthparts and thickened, leathery forewings. 2. (loosely) any insect or insectlike invertebrate. 3. Informal. any microorganism, esp. a virus: an intestinal bug. 4. a defect, error, or imperfection, as in computer software. 5. Informal. a. an often short-lived enthusiasm; a craze or obsession: He's got the sports-car bug. b. an enthusiast; fan; hobbyist: a camera bug. 6. a hidden microphone or other electronic eavesdropping device. 7. Horse Racing. the five-pound weight allowance that can be claimed by an apprentice jockey. v.t. 8. to install a secret listening device in or on: The phone was bugged. 9. Informal. to annoy or pester. v.i. 10. (of eyes) to bulge. 11. bug off, Slang. to leave or depart (often used as a command). 12. bug out, Slang. to flee in panic. Idioms: put a bug in someone's ear, to give someone a subtle suggestion. [1615–25; earlier bugge beetle]

Bug

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n. 1. a river in E central Europe, rising in W Ukraine and forming part of the boundary between Poland and Ukraine, flowing NW to the Vistula in Poland. 450 mi. (725 km) long. 2. a river in SW Ukraine, flowing SE to the Dnieper estuary. ab. 530 mi. (850 km) long.

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(bŭg) An insect, spider, or similar small organism. In strict scientific usage, a bug is an insect belonging to the order of the true bugs. See true bug.Usage The word bug is often used to refer to tiny creatures that crawl along, such as insects and even small animals that are not insects, such as spiders and millipedes. But for scientists, the word has a much narrower meaning. In strictest terms, the bugs are those insects that have mouthparts adapted for piercing and sucking. The mouthparts of these bugs are contained in a beak-shaped structure. Thus scientists would classify a louse, but not a beetle or a cockroach, as a bug. In fact, scientists often call lice and their relatives true bugs, to distinguish them better from what everyone else calls "bugs."

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

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Past participle: bugged
Gerund: bugging

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A mistake in a program.

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Noun	1.	bug - general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrateinsect - small air-breathing arthropod
	2.	bug - a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machineglitchflaw, fault, defect - an imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
	3.	bug - a small hidden microphone; for listening secretlymicrophone, mike - device for converting sound waves into electrical energy
	4.	bug - insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosishemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insectinsect - small air-breathing arthropodHemiptera, order Hemiptera - plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)leaf bug, plant bug - small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juiceslygaeid, lygaeid bug - a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit treescoreid, coreid bug - a true bugbed bug, bedbug, chinch, Cimex lectularius - bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human bloodbackswimmer, Notonecta undulata - predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bitestrue bug - any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera
	5.	bug - a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical usemicrobe, germmicroorganism, micro-organism - any organism of microscopic size
Verb	1.	bug - annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"badger, beleaguer, pester, teasebedevil, dun, rag, torment, frustrate, crucify - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
	2.	bug - 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?"wiretap, intercept, tapeavesdrop, listen in - listen without the speaker's knowledge; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations"

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noun1. insect, beastie (informal), creepy-crawly (informal), gogga (S. African informal) a bloodsucking bug which infests poor housing2. (Informal) illness, disease, complaint, virus, infection, disorder, disability, sickness, ailment, malaise, affliction, malady, lurgy (informal) I think I've got a bit of a stomach bug.3. fault, failing, virus, error, defect, flaw, blemish, imperfection, glitch, gremlin There is a bug in the software.4. bugging device, wire, listening device, phone tap, hidden microphone There was a bug on the phone.5. (Informal) mania, passion, rage, obsession, craze, fad, thing (informal) I've definitely been bitten by the gardening bug.verb1. tap, eavesdrop, listen in on, wiretap He heard they were planning to bug his office.2. (Informal) annoy, bother, disturb, needle (informal), plague, irritate, harass, hassle (informal), aggravate (informal), badger, gall, nettle, pester, vex, irk, get under your skin (informal), get on your nerves (informal), nark (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), get up your nose (informal), be on your back (slang), piss you off (taboo slang), get in your hair (informal), get on your wick (Brit. slang) I only did it to bug my parents.

Bugs

bedbug or (Southern U.S.) chinch, cicada or cicala, damsel bug, debris bug, froghopper, spittle insect, or spittle bug, harlequin bug, kissing bug, lace bug, leaf-hopper, Maori bug, mealy bug, pond-skater, water strider, or water skater, shield bug or stink bug, water boatman, water bug, water scorpion

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noun1. A minute organism usually producing disease:germ, microbe, microorganism.2. A minor illness, especially one of a temporary nature:ailment, complaint, indisposition, malady.3. Something that mars the appearance or causes inadequacy or failure:blemish, defect, fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming.4. A person who is ardently devoted to a particular subject or activity:devotee, enthusiast, fanatic, maniac, zealot.Informal: buff, fan, fiend.Slang: freak, nut.verb1. To trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations:aggravate, annoy, bother, chafe, disturb, exasperate, fret, gall, get, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, provoke, put out, rile, ruffle, vex.Idioms: get in one's hair, get on one's nerves, get under one's skin.2. To monitor (telephone calls) with a concealed listening device connected to the circuit:tap, wiretap.

Translations

小虫烦扰病菌窃听器虫子

bug

(bag) noun1. an insect that lives in dirty houses and beds. a bedbug.臭虫2. an insect. There's a bug crawling up your arm.虫子3. a germ or infection. a stomach bug.病菌4. a small hidden microphone. 窃听器 verb – past tense, past participle bugged – 1. to place small hidden microphones in (a room etc). The spy's bedroom was bugged.装窃听器2. to annoy. What's bugging him?烦扰

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Southern Bug,

river, Ukraine: see BuhBuh
or Southern Buh
, Ukr. Pivdynnyy Buh, river, c.490 mi (790 km) long, rising in the Volhynian-Podolian hills, W Ukraine. The Buh, flowing generally SE into the Black Sea, is navigable for c.100 mi (160 km) from Voznesensk to its mouth.
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common name correctly applied to insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, although members of the order Homoptera (e.g., mealybugmealybug,
common name for certain unarmored scale insects that exude a granular white secretion, giving them a mealy appearance. Many are common greenhouse and crop pests. Adult females are wingless, with oval, segmented bodies and well-developed legs.
..... Click the link for more information. ) are sometimes referred to as bugs, as are other insects in general. The true bugs (Hemipterans) have a characteristic pair of front wings that are partially thickened and darkened at the base and partially membranous at the apex. Development is gradual through an incomplete metamorphosismetamorphosis
[Gr.,=transformation], in zoology, term used to describe a form of development from egg to adult in which there is a series of distinct stages. Many insects, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, and fishes undergo metamorphosis, which may involve a change in habitat,
..... Click the link for more information. with a number of nymphal stages before the reproductively mature adult stage is reached. Most bugs are terrestrial, but many are aquatic (e.g., various water bugswater bug,
name for a large number of water-living bugs, comprising several families of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). All have jointed, sharp, sucking beaks, breathe air, and undergo gradual metamorphosis (see insect).
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Although bugs vary greatly in size, color, and physical appearance, they all have piercing-sucking mouthparts in the form of a jointed beak. Most species suck plant juices (e.g., the squash bugsquash bug,
name for a true bug, Anasa tristis, found throughout the United States and S Canada. It damages squash, pumpkin, and related plants by sucking the juices from leaves and stems. The adult is dark brown and measures about 2-3 in. (16 mm) long.
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small North American bug, Blissus leucopterus, of the seed bug family. It feeds on small grains, corn, and other grasses, sucking the plant juices and doing much damage to crops, particularly in the Midwest. The adults, about 1/8 in. (3.
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common name for members of the family Reduviidae, one of the largest and most varied groups belonging to the order Hemiptera (suborder Heteroptera). Assassin bugs are generally brownish to black, medium-sized to large insects, with heads that are elongate and
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common name for water bugs of the cosmopolitan family Notonectidae, so named because they swim upside down, usually near the surface of the water. They have oval bodies and long, oarlike hind legs, with which they swim rapidly, but their backs are more convex than
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any of the small, blood-sucking bugs of the family Cimicidae, which includes about 30 species distributed throughout the world. Bedbugs are flat-bodied, oval, reddish brown, and about 1-4 in. (6 mm) long.
..... Click the link for more information. , feed on people and other animals. Many of these insects characteristically secrete defensive substances (e.g., the stink bugstink bug,
member of a large, widely distributed family (Pentatomidae) of true bugs with flattened, shield-shaped bodies. Most are 1-4 to 1-2 in. (6–12 mm) long. Those species whose hard upper covering, or scutellum, covers most of the abdomen are known as shield bugs, as
..... Click the link for more information. ). The true bugs are classified in the phylum ArthropodaArthropoda
[Gr.,=jointed feet], largest and most diverse animal phylum. The arthropods include crustaceans, insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, scorpions, and the extinct trilobites.
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Bug

(bo͞og, bŭg), Pol. Bug, Ukr. Buh or Zakhidnyy Buh, river, c.480 mi (770 km) long, rising in the Volhynian-Podolian hills, W Ukraine. It flows N along the Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Belarusian borders past Brest and then NW through Poland to join the Vistula River (with the Narew) near Warsaw. It is linked with the Dnieper by the Dnieper-Bug Canal via the Pina River and with the Niemen by the Augustov Canal via the Narva River. The Bug is also known as the Western Bug.

Bug

or Zapadnyi Bug, a river in the USSR and Poland (marking the border over a considerable distance), right tributary of the Vistula. Length, 831 km; area of basin, 73,470 sq km.

The Bug rises in the Podol’e Upland in Lvov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. It flows at the western edge of the Lublin Upland and Podlasie. It has high water during spring and autumn flooding, which is caused by rain. There are frequent winter floods caused by the thaw of snow. The water is highest in March and April and lowest usually in September. The river freezes in late December and the ice breaks in the second half of March. The most important tributaries are the Mukhavets River, which is linked by the Dnieper-Bug Canal with the Pina River (tributary of the Pripiat’) belonging to the Dnieper system, and the Narew River; the Biebrza River, a tributary of the Narew, is linked through the Netta River by the Augustów Canal with the Czarna Hancza River, which flows into the Neman River. The Bug is navigable up to a distance of 315 km from its mouth. The main cities on the Bug are Brest, Sokal’, Chervonograd, Kamenka-Bugskaia, and Busk.

bug

[bəg] (computer science) A defect in a program code or in designing a routine or a computer. (electronics) A semiautomatic code-sending telegraph key in which movement of a lever to one side produces a series of correctly spaced dots and movement to the other side produces a single dash. An electronic listening device, generally concealed, used for commercial or military espionage. (engineering) A defect or imperfection present in a piece of equipment. bullet (invertebrate zoology) Any insect in the order Hemiptera.

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A moving marker on a flight instrument dial, which may be set to any reference point to indicate a particular indication of that instrument. A pilot may set the bug on ASI to indicate V₂ or any other value.

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¹1. any insect of the order Hemiptera, esp any of the suborder Heteroptera, having piercing and sucking mouthparts specialized as a beak (rostrum) 2. Chiefly US and Canadian any insect, such as the June bug or the Croton bug 3. Informal an error or fault, as in a machine or system, esp in a computer or computer program 4. US (in poker) a joker used as an ace or wild card to complete a straight or flush

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² Obsolete an evil spirit or spectre; hobgoblin

Bug

1. a river in E Europe, rising in W Ukraine and flowing southeast to the Dnieper estuary and the Black Sea. Length: 853 km (530 miles) 2. a river in E Europe, rising in SW Ukraine and flowing northwest to the River Vistula in Poland, forming part of the border between Poland and Ukraine. Length: 724 km (450 miles)

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(programming)An unwanted and unintended property of a programor piece of hardware, especially one that causes it tomalfunction. Antonym of feature. E.g. "There's a bug inthe editor: it writes things out backward." Theidentification and removal of bugs in a program is called"debugging".

Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer betterknown for inventing COBOL) liked to tell a story in which atechnician solved a glitch in the Harvard Mark II machineby pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts ofone of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated bug inits hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as shewas careful to admit, she was not there when it happened).For many years the logbook associated with the incident andthe actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case atthe Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story,with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, isrecorded 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 ofbug being found". This wording establishes that the term wasalready in use at the time in its current specific sense - andHopper herself reports that the term "bug" was regularlyapplied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.

Indeed, the use of "bug" to mean an industrial defect wasalready established in Thomas Edison's time, and a morespecific and rather modern use can be found in an electricalhandbook from 1896 ("Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity",Theo. Audel & Co.) which says: "The term "bug" is used to alimited extent to designate any fault or trouble in theconnections or working of electric apparatus." It furthernotes that the term is "said to have originated inquadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to allelectric apparatus."

The latter observation may explain a common folk etymology ofthe 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 adistorted memory of a joke first current among *telegraph*operators more than a century ago!

Actually, use of "bug" in the general sense of a disruptiveevent goes back to Shakespeare! In the first edition ofSamuel Johnson's dictionary one meaning of "bug" is "Afrightful object; a walking spectre"; this is traced to"bugbear", a Welsh term for a variety of mythological monsterwhich (to complete the circle) has recently been reintroducedinto the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing games.

In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers toinsects. Here is a plausible conversation that never actuallyhappened:

"There is a bug in this ant farm!"

"What do you mean? I don't see any ants in it."

"That's the bug."

[There has been a widespread myth that the original bug wasmoved to the Smithsonian, and an earlier version of this entryso asserted. A correspondent who thought to check discoveredthat the bug was not there. While investigating this in late1990, your editor discovered that the NSWC still had the bug,but had unsuccessfully tried to get the Smithsonian to acceptit - and that the present curator of their History ofAmerican Technology Museum didn't know this and agreed that itwould make a worthwhile exhibit. It was moved to theSmithsonian in mid-1991, but due to space and moneyconstraints has not yet been exhibited. Thus, the process ofinvestigating the original-computer-bug bug fixed it in anentirely unexpected way, by making the myth true! - ESR]

bug

A persistent error in software or hardware. If the bug is in software, it can be corrected by changing the program code. If the bug is in hardware, a new circuit has to be designed, and the erroneous chip has to be replaced.

Although the derivation of bug is generally attributed to a moth that was found squashed between the relays of Harvard University's Mark II electromechanical calculator in the 1940s, the term actually goes back to the 1800s to refer to flaws in mechanical systems. See buggy, bug fix, software bug, broken, Heisenbug and Web bug. Contrast with glitch.

A Note from the Author

On October 19, 1992, I found my first "real bug." When I fired up my laser printer, it printed blotchy pages. Upon inspection, I found a bug lying belly up in the trough below the corona wire. The printer worked fine after removing it!

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noun a minute organism usually producing disease

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noun a minor illness, especially one of a temporary nature

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noun something that mars the appearance or causes inadequacy or failure

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noun a person who is ardently devoted to a particular subject or activity

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verb to trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations

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verb to monitor (telephone calls) with a concealed listening device connected to the circuit

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noun general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

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noun a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

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