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Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BUG
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Definitions of BUG
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- (informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- (US) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- (UK, obsolete, specifically) A bedbug.
- (informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- (informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- (obsolete) Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies. [late 14th c.–early 17th. c]
- (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
- (petroleum industry, slang, dated) Synonym of oil bug.
- (slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- (slang, US, horse-racing, by extension) A young apprentice jockey.
- (printing) Synonym of union bug.
- (gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- (gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- (informal, transitive) To annoy.
- (informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
- (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
- A river in Ukraine (Southern Bug), flowing 530 miles to the Dnieper estuary.
- (US, slang) A Volkswagen Beetle car.
- (slang) A Bugatti car.
- (intransitive, of eyes) To bulge or protrude.
- (informal) Any minibeast.
- (chieflycomputing, engineeringjargon) A problem that needs fixing.
- (Maine) A lobster.
- (television) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- (chiefly, LGBTQ, "the bug") HIV.
- A East European river which flows northwest 450 miles through Belarus,Poland,Ukraine into the Baltic Sea. (Western Bug).
- Initialism of bisexual until graduation.
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Examples of Using BUG in a Sentence
- Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bug tracking system and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License.
- In draw poker played for high and pai gow poker, the bug is considered to be an ace, unless it can be used as a missing card to complete a straight or a flush, in which case it becomes the highest card which can complete the hand.
- The Pentium FDIV bug is a hardware bug affecting the floating-point unit (FPU) of the early Intel Pentium processors.
- SourceForge, a web-based service that offers a source code repository, download mirrors, bug tracking and other features.
- The effects of a software bug range from minor (such as a misspelled word in the user interface) to severe (such as frequent crashing).
- Changes that may require regression testing include bug fixes, software enhancements, configuration changes, and even substitution of electronic components (hardware).
- Namesys considered ReiserFS stable and feature-complete and ceased development on it to concentrate on its successor, Reiser4, though it continued to release security updates and critical bug fixes.
- It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists, user-support forums, user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin, micro-blog for publishing project updates, and other features.
- Cargo cult programming is symptomatic of a programmer not understanding either a bug they were attempting to solve or the apparent solution (compare shotgun debugging, deep magic).
- A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone.
- They do not present a health risk but due to their numbers - with swarms of thousands - they can clog car radiators, obscure windshields, and foul electric bug zappers to the point of shorting out.
- Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles chess, cross chess, swap chess or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug) is a popular chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two.
- The specification was finalised in January 2008, and further developments were only bug fixes and constraints.
- The rewrite is referred to as HDB or HoneyDanBer uucp, which was later enhanced, bug fixed, and repackaged as BNU UUCP ("Basic Network Utilities").
- The program exploited a buffer overflow bug in Microsoft's SQL Server and Desktop Engine database products.
- Some say the second TMU was there in the original Geforce NSR (Nvidia Shading Rasterizer) but dual-texturing was disabled due to a hardware bug; NSR's unique ability to do single-cycle trilinear texture filtering supports this suggestion.
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