bug
US: /ˈbəɡ/
UK: /bˈʌɡ/
UK: /bˈʌɡ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
bug /bʌg/
- danh từ
- con rệp
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) sâu bọ
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) lỗi kỹ thuật, thiếu sót về kỹ thuật
- (từ lóng) ý nghĩ điên rồ; sự điên rồ
- to go bugs: hoá điên, mất trí
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) máy ghi âm nhỏ (để nghe trộm)
- ngoại động từ
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) đặt máy ghi âm để nghe trộm
- làm khó chịu, làm phát cáu
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [C] (especially AmE) any small insect
2 [C] (informal) an infectious illness that is usually fairly mild: a flu bug + There's a stomach bug going round (= people are catching it from each other). + I picked up a bug in the office.
3 (usually the ...bug) [sing.] (informal) an enthusiastic interest in sth such as a sport or a hobby: the travel bug + She was never interested in fitness before but now she's been bitten by the bug.
4 [C] (informal) a small hidden device for listening to other people's conversations: They planted a bug in his hotel room.
5 [C] a fault in a machine, especially in a computer system or program
See also -
+ verb [VN]
1 to put a special device (= a bug) somewhere in order to listen secretly to other people's conversations: They bugged her hotel room. + They were bugging his telephone conversations. + a bugging device
2 (informal) to annoy or irritate sb: Stop bugging me! + It's something that's been bugging me a lot recently. + She's really beginning to bug me.
Idioms: bug off! (AmE, spoken) a rude way of telling sb to go away
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 insect, beetle, larva, grub, caterpillar, butterfly, mosquito, fly, spider, Colloq Brit creepy-crawly, US no-see-em:
There's a bug on your collar.
2 microbe, germ, virus; disease, affliction, illness, sickness, ailment, disorder, malady, infection; condition, complaint, infirmity, indisposition:
She's caught some kind of bug and won't be in for a few days.
3 obsession, craze, fad, mania, rage:
Almost everyone in those days succumbed to the hula hoop bug.
4 enthusiast, faddist, fan, fanatic; hobbyist:
She's turned into a fruit machine bug.
5 listening device; microphone, transmitter, electronic eavesdropper, tap:
They planted a bug in the ambassador's telephone.
6 fault, error, mistake, failing, shortcoming, Colloq hang-up, glitch:
There's a bug in the program that's preventing the list from being sorted. They can't market the device till they've ironed out all the bugs.
v.
7 annoy, irritate, pester, irk, harass, bother:
I wish Mum'd stop bugging me about my homework.
8 tap, spy on:
They bugged her phone and recorded all her conversations.
Collocation dictionary
1 infectious illness
ADJ.
nasty | flu, stomach, tummy
VERB + BUG
have | catch, come/go down with, get, pick up
BUG + VERB
go around/round
A stomach bug has been going round at school.
| strike sb down
PREP.
with a/the ~
off work with a flu bug > Special page at ILLNESS
2 sudden interest in sth
VERB + BUG
be bitten by, catch, get
She's been bitten by the travel bug.
BUG + VERB
bite (sb)
3 sth wrong in a system/machine
ADJ.
minor, slight | computer, software
Concise English dictionary
bugged|bugging|bugsbʌg
noun
+general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
+a fault or defect in a system or machine
+a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
+insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
+a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
verb
+annoy persistently
+tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
