bug
1. general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms:
buggy
• Hypernyms:
insect
2. a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
• Syn:
glitch
• Hypernyms:
defect, fault, flaw
3. a small hidden microphone;
for listening secretly
• Hypernyms:
microphone, mike
4. insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base;
usually show incomplete metamorphosis
• Syn:
hemipterous insect, hemipteran, hemipteron
• Hypernyms:
insect
• Hyponyms:
leaf bug, plant bug, lygaeid, lygaeid bug, coreid bug,
coreid, bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius, backswimmer,
Notonecta undulata, true bug
• Member Holonyms:
Hemiptera, order Hemiptera
5. a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium);
the term is not in technical use
• Syn:
microbe, germ
• Derivationally related forms:
germy (for: germ), microbial (for: microbe)
• Hypernyms:
microorganism, micro-organism
1. annoy persistently (Freq. 1)
- The children teased the boy because of his stammer
• Syn:
tease, badger, pester, beleaguer
• Derivationally related forms:
pesterer (for: pester), badgerer (for: badger), tease (for: tease), teaser (for: tease)
• Hypernyms:
torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They bug him to write the letter
2. 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?
• Syn:
wiretap, tap, intercept
• Derivationally related forms:
tap (for: tap), tapper (for: tap), wiretap (for: wiretap), wiretapper (for: wiretap)
• Hypernyms:
listen in, eavesdrop
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They want to bug the prisoners
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