The meaning of Bug

noun

A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility.

Usage examples:

The colonel's anger at his daughter's disobedience

verb

Fill (someone) with anger; provoke anger in.

Usage examples:

She was angered by his terse answer

noun

The feeling people get when something unfair, painful, or bad happens

Usage examples:

You need to control your anger., he yelled at them in anger., his constant complaining only angered…

verb

Make (someone) a little angry; irritate.

Usage examples:

The decision really annoyed him

verb

To make someone slightly angry or upset

Usage examples:

I know you’re doing this only to annoy me., [ u ] as soon as he saw me, a look of annoyance crossed…

verb

Cause (someone) to become hostile.

Usage examples:

The aim was to antagonize visiting supporters

verb

To anger someone enough to dislike and oppose you

Usage examples:

The company doesn’t want to antagonize one of its biggest oil suppliers.

noun

An insect or other small animal.

Usage examples:

Our immune systems are killing millions of wee beasties

noun

A mechanical failure.

Usage examples:

Breakdowns could totally disrupt production

noun

A mechanical failure, or a failure in a system or a relationship

Usage examples:

There was evidently a breakdown in communication leading to the false report., their car trip was a…

noun

A failure to work correctly or to be successful

Usage examples:

The city is losing millions of dollars in lost productivity because of all of the mechanical breakd…

noun

A small insect that gives you a feeling of fear and dislike

noun

A shortcoming, imperfection, or lack.

Usage examples:

Genetic defects

verb

Abandon one's country or cause in favour of an opposing one.

Usage examples:

He defected to the soviet union after the war

noun

Something that is lacking or that is not exactly right in someone or something

Usage examples:

The cars have a defect in the electrical system that may cause them to stall., i replaced the defec…

verb

Make (someone) feel annoyed or dissatisfied.

Usage examples:

The tone of the letter displeased him

verb

To cause someone to be annoyed

Usage examples:

The city council said it was displeased with the way the mayor had allocated parking spaces., they …

noun

A mistake.

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Spelling errors

noun

A mistake, esp. in a way that can be discovered as wrong, or the making of such mistakes

Usage examples:

[ c ] a spelling/mathematical error, [ u ] investigators said the train crash was caused by human e…

noun

Something done or written by accident that is not correct, not accurate, or does not give the right result

Usage examples:

Make/introduce an error can i amend my vat return online if i've made an error?, correct/find an er…

verb

Irritate and frustrate (someone) intensely.

Usage examples:

This futile process exasperates prison officers

verb

To cause anger or extreme annoyance in someone

Usage examples:

His assistant’s carelessness is exasperating him.

noun

A weakness, especially in a person's character; a shortcoming.

Usage examples:

Pride is a terrible failing

preposition

In the absence of; if not.

Usage examples:

She longed to be with him and, failing that, to be alone

verb

Be unsuccessful in achieving one's goal.

Usage examples:

He failed in his attempt to secure election

noun

An unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person's character.

Usage examples:

My worst fault is impatience

verb

Criticize for inadequacy or mistakes.

Usage examples:

Her superiors could not fault her dedication to the job

noun

A quality in a person that shows that the person is not perfect, or a condition of something that shows that it is not working perfectly

Usage examples:

He loves me in spite of my faults., some people find fault in everything they see., i screwed up, s…

noun

A mark, blemish, or other imperfection which mars a substance or object.

Usage examples:

A flaw in the glass

verb

Mar, weaken, or invalidate (something).

Usage examples:

The computer game was flawed by poor programming

noun

A squall of wind; a short storm.

Usage examples:

The ship had turned, caught in a windy flaw

noun

A small wingless jumping insect which feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. it sometimes transmits diseases through its bite, including plague and myxomatosis.

Usage examples:

Plague mostly affected rodents, but fleas could transmit the disease to people too.

noun

Bold and impudent behaviour.

Usage examples:

The bank had the gall to demand a fee

verb

Make (someone) feel annoyed or resentful.

Usage examples:

It galled him to have to sit impotently in silence

noun

An abnormal growth formed in response to the presence of insect larvae, mites, or fungi on plants and trees, especially oaks.

Usage examples:

A single grub feeds on its gall for two years before emerging

noun

A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment.

Usage examples:

A draft version was lost in a computer glitch

verb

Suffer a sudden malfunction or fault.

Usage examples:

The elevators glitched

noun

A problem or fault

Usage examples:

A technical glitch, a minor glitch

noun

An imaginary mischievous sprite regarded as responsible for an unexplained mechanical or electronic problem or fault.

Usage examples:

A gremlin in my computer omitted a line

noun

An imaginary creature that gets inside things, esp. machines, and causes problems

noun

A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.

Usage examples:

The imperfections and injustices in our political system

noun

A fault in something that means that it is not perfect

Usage examples:

An imperfection in sth the company manufactures pads used to smooth imperfections in computer chips.

noun

A small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings.

Usage examples:

Insect pests

noun

A type of small animal with six legs, a body divided into three parts, and often two pairs of wings, for example, an ant, beetle, or butterfly

verb

Irritate; annoy.

Usage examples:

It irks her to think of the runaround she received

verb

Make (someone) annoyed or a little angry.

Usage examples:

His tone irritated her

verb

To annoy or make angry

Usage examples:

After a while the noise began to irritate him., at first my contact lenses irritated my eyes.

noun

A small or minute two-winged fly that forms swarms and breeds near water or marshy areas.

Usage examples:

Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh bee…

noun

A small fly that flies in groups, and often bites

noun

Any small creature such as an insect or a spider

Usage examples:

When the sun is shining, he wants to be out in the garden hunting for minibeasts., pond-dipping and…

noun

A minute arachnid which has four pairs of legs when adult, related to the ticks. many kinds live in the soil and a number are parasitic on plants or animals.

Usage examples:

All of these arthropods are known predators of insect eggs; on at least 17 plants, adult mites were…

adverb

A little; slightly.

Usage examples:

I haven't eaten yet and i'm feeling a mite peckish

noun

A feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one's pride.

Usage examples:

He left in a fit of pique

verb

Arouse (interest or curiosity).

Usage examples:

With his scientific curiosity piqued, he was looking forward to being able to analyse his find

verb

Score a pique against (one's opponent).

noun

The part of a telephone apparatus contained in the earpiece, in which electrical signals are converted into sounds.

Usage examples:

Working independently, gray and bell both developed systems based on electromagnetic receivers with…

idiom

To annoy someone without intending to

Usage examples:

As soon as they met they started to rub each other up the wrong way.

verb

Disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it.

Usage examples:

The father laughs and jovially ruffles his son's hair

noun

A strip of lace or other material, gathered along one edge to make an ornamental frill on a garment or other piece of fabric.

Usage examples:

The garment is often trimmed with lace, ruffles, bows and ribbons, optionally with spaghetti straps.

verb

To make someone upset or nervous or reduce someone’s confidence

Usage examples:

[ t ] it ruffled her composure, and she did not know how to respond., a sudden, strong breeze ruffl…

noun

A situation in which a long line of traffic is unable to travel forward because something is blocking the road

Usage examples:

Many roadworks have been suspended to avoid further snarl-ups on the motorways., thousands of train…

noun

A device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled.

Usage examples:

She turned the cold tap on

verb

Draw liquid through the tap or spout of (a cask, barrel, or other container).

Usage examples:

Several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories

noun

A quick light blow, or the sound of such a blow.

Usage examples:

There was a sharp tap at the door

noun

A set of equipment used to generate and transmit electromagnetic waves carrying messages or signals, especially those of radio or television.

Usage examples:

Conversely, radio waves from a transmitter operating near the cable will enter the cable through th…

verb

Make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters.

Usage examples:

The memory of the conversation still vexed him

adjective

Angry; annoyed.

Usage examples:

I ain't vex with you

verb

To cause someone to feel annoyance or trouble

Usage examples:

The question that vexes ben the most is, "why me?", rising gas prices are a vexing problem.

noun

An infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host.

Usage examples:

The hepatitis b virus

Infectious agent that replicates itself within living hosts

noun

A very small organism that causes disease in humans, animals, and plants

Usage examples:

She’s had a virus for several days.

noun

Metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod.

Usage examples:

A coil of copper wire

verb

Install electric circuits or wires in.

Usage examples:

Wiring a plug

noun

An act of using a listening device to conduct surveillance, typically over a phone line.

Usage examples:

Illegal wiretaps of leading politicians

verb

Use a listening device to conduct surveillance on.

Usage examples:

He illegally wiretapped people who were in disputes with his clients

verb

To secretly listen to people by connecting a listening device to their telephone, or to attach a listening device to a telephone for this purpose

Usage examples:

[ t ] the court gave permission to have his phone wiretapped to gather evidence., the government pu…