Synonyms for bug
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1. bugnoun

   Synonyms:
   Buh

2. bugnoun

   A manually positioned marker in flight instruments

   Synonyms:
   wiretap

3. bugnoun

   A semi-automated telegraph key

   Synonyms:
   wiretap

4. bugnoun

   The HIV.

   Synonyms:
   wiretap

5. Bugnoun

   To annoy.

   Don’t bug me, I’m busy!

   Synonyms:
   wiretap, Buh

6. bugnoun

   To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

   These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.

   Synonyms:
   Buh, wiretap

7. bugnoun

   Various species of marine crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug.

   Synonyms:
   wiretap

8. bugnoun

   A problem that needs fixing, especially in computing.

   The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.

   Synonyms:
   wiretap

9. bugnoun

   A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it

   He’s got the flu bug.

   Synonyms:
   wiretap

10. bugnoun

    An enthusiasm for something; an obsession

    Synonyms:
    wiretap

11. bugnoun

    An electronic intercept device

    We installed a bug in her telephone

    Synonyms:
    wiretap

12. bugnoun

    A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.

    He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.

    Synonyms:
    wiretap

13. bugnoun

    A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it

    Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show

    Synonyms:
    wiretap

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. bugnoun

   general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

   Synonyms:
   hemipterous insect, glitch, hemipteron, germ, microbe, hemipteran

2. bug, glitchnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   hemipterous insect, glitch, hemipteron, germ, microbe, hemipteran

3. bugnoun

   a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

   Synonyms:
   hemipterous insect, glitch, hemipteron, germ, microbe, hemipteran

4. hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran, hemipteronnoun

   insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

   Synonyms:
   hemipterous insect, glitch, hemipteran, hemipteron, germ, microbe

5. microbe, bug, germverb

   a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

   Synonyms:
   seed, hemipteran, hemipterous insect, glitch, germ, source, microbe, hemipteron

6. tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguerverb

   annoy persistently

   "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"

   Synonyms:
   bait, badger, taunt, surround, tease, fluff, loosen, tap, wiretap, circumvent, twit, tease apart, intercept, cod, tantalize, tantalise, besiege, ride, rag, card, razz, beleaguer, hem in, pester, rally

7. wiretap, tap, intercept, bugverb

   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?"

   Synonyms:
   solicit, tease, exploit, wiretap, tip, rap, badger, tap, pink, knock, intercept, beg, tapdance, stop, beleaguer, pester

Matched Categories

1. • Defect
   • Insect
   • Microphone
   • Torment

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "bug":

   insect, glitch, error, squealer, microbe, beetle, cockroach, earpiece, insects, pest

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How to use bug in a sentence?

1. Katie Moussouris:

   It's great that DHS is working with hackers and welcoming their findings ; however, time-bound bug bounty programs do not deliver consistent security improvements, it's time to mature government vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty programs towards measurable security outcomes.

2. Mark Twain:

   The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

3. Eugene F. Ware:

   The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug

4. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)

5. Pradeep Soundararajan:

   It is not a test that finds a bug but it is a human that finds a bug and a test plays a role in helping the human find it.