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Noun (5 meanings)

1. general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.

bug is a type of:

insect (noun) - small air-breathing arthropod

bug is derivationally related to:

buggy (adjective) - infested with bugs

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

bug is a type of:

defect, fault, flaw (noun) - an imperfection in an object or machine

3. a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly.

bug is a type of:

microphone, mike (noun) - device for converting sound waves into electrical energy

bug is derivationally related to:

to wiretap, tap, intercept, bug (verb) - tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

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

hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron

bug is a type of:

insect (noun) - small air-breathing arthropod

types of bug:

backswimmer, Notonecta undulata (noun) - predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites
bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius (noun) - bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
coreid bug, coreid (noun) - a true bug
leaf bug, plant bug (noun) - small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices
lygaeid, lygaeid bug (noun) - a true bug: usually bright-colored

true bug (noun) - any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera

bug is a member of:

Hemiptera, order Hemiptera (noun) - plant bugs

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

microbe, bug, germ

bug is a type of:

microorganism, micro-organism (noun) - any organism of microscopic size

bug is derivationally related to:

germy (adjective) - full of germs or pathological microorganisms
microbial, microbic (adjective) - of or involving or caused by or being microbes

Verb (2 meanings)

1. annoy persistently.

to tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer

Example:

“The children teased the boy because of his stammer”

to bug is a way to:

to torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate (verb) - treat cruelly

to bug is derivationally related to:

heckler, badgerer (noun) - someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections
pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly (noun) - a persistently annoying person
tease, teasing, ribbing, tantalization (noun) - the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule)
tease, teaser, annoyer, vexer (noun) - someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

2. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information.

to wiretap, tap, intercept, bug

Examples:

“The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy”,
“Is this hotel room bugged?”

to bug is a way to:

to listen in, eavesdrop (verb) - listen without the speaker's knowledge

to bug is derivationally related to:

bug (noun) - a small hidden microphone
tapper, wiretapper, phone tapper (noun) - someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
wiretap, tap (noun) - the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information