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bug
has definitions from the fields of biology,zoology,physics
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[ noun ] (zoology) general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving . Related terms |
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[ verb ] annoy persistently
Examples "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" Used in print (Rosemary Balckmon, "How Much Do You Tell When...)Naturally , the patient does not say , `` I hate my father '' , or `` Sibling rivalry is what bugs me '' . |
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[ noun ] (physics) a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
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[ noun ] (zoology) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
Synonyms Related terms insect lygaeid true_bug coreid_bug bedbug backswimmer leaf_bug Hemiptera |
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[ noun ] (biology) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
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