(n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
(n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
(n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
(n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(2) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
(3) Data from 1985 and 1986 showed that 85.6% of the bugs captured inside houses were notified by the population, which confirms that the best way to maintain the epidemiologic surveillance of Chagas' disease by the mobilization of local communities for effective participation in vector surveillance.
(4) The diplomatic bag must only contain articles for official use (not kidnapped opposition politicians ), and the collection of information can only be carried out by "lawful means" (not by bugging the state department ).
(5) The number of people affected by an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug could have passed 1 million, the Health Protection Agency has reported.
(6) The BUG increases 3.9-fold in DNA content from day 0 (day of birth) to day 6 postnatally; the epithelium grows proportionately more than the mesenchyme during this period (12-fold vs. 2.3-fold).
(7) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
(8) The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify the highly variable region of the kinetoplast minicircle of Trypanosoma cruzi directly in biological samples (feces of infected Triatomine bugs, blood samples of experimentally infected mice, and artificially infected human blood samples).
(9) At 67, Young apparently feels the strain as much as everyone: "[His] wrist bugs him, and he has to tape it when he plays," Sampedro said.
(10) Gordon has been doing live insect cooking demonstrations across the United States since 1998 and estimates that he’s cooked bugs for some 100,000 people.
(11) More than 150,000 people were struck down with the winter vomiting bug during the festive period, the latest figures suggest.
(12) It seemed to me that Kafka had trouble imagining a universe where Gregor the Bug scurried about on the street, doing all kinds of wild things.
(13) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
(14) A good example of this is the Innovative Medicines Initiative's new drugs for bad bugs programme .
(15) Indeed, diglycerides constitute the largest neutral lipid fraction in the hemolymph of silkmoths, locusts, cockroaches, bugs, etc.
(16) Television's natural instinct was now simply to go on and on, to consume the infinite time stretching out in front of it, like those cartoons where Bugs Bunny is frantically laying down railway track so the train he is on can keep moving.
(17) But I've changed my mind – I think the Olympic bug might have caught on.
(18) And Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein has been bugged, of course.
(19) The information was fed into a DNA synthesizer, which produced short strands of the bug's DNA.
(20) Using this method, far more bugs can be used than in conventional xenodiagnosis increasing the likelyhood of detecting at least one infected T. infestans.
Bugbear
Definition:
(n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
(n.) Same as Bugaboo.
(a.) Causing needless fright.
(v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) I doubt any of us have a real bugbear with the comedian himself, because bitterness and disappointment is something most of us can relate to on some level.
(2) This is the uncomfortable truth, of course, which, after four decades at the sharp end of the fertility industry, has become Grudzinskas' bugbear.
(3) One dev says: "My biggest bugbear at the moment (on my lowly 3GS) is the number of times app quit due to memory shortages, or because they've taken too long to load.
(4) Her serve has been her bugbear since her shoulder operation six years ago, and it is a mark of her grit that she has triumphed despite it.
(5) Gay ubiquity began to make it seem difficult for homophobes to travel anywhere interesting without encountering their bugbear.
(6) One of the bugbears among locals who hoped the Ridings would remain open is the fact that, in last week's secondary school league tables, it did considerably better than it has in the past: the number of pupils scoring five A*-C grades at GCSE in subjects including maths and English was up from 4% to 13%.
(7) Letting agents' fees are a bugbear of all the tenant campaign groups.
(8) That it was more than just a personal bugbear became clear in June 2013, when we learned that PennCAN, yet another so-called “school-reform” group focused on vouchers, privatization, and the destruction of public schooling, had financed a “secret poll” that encouraged Corbett to attack the PFT in hopes of gaining support ahead of his midterm reelection campaign.
(9) The EHRC has long been a bugbear for the Tory right who see it as a relic of the past.
(10) Painfully slow mobile internet connections have long been a bugbear for smartphone owners made to wait while trying to load a simple map or webpage.
(11) I haven’t got any problems with people at the FA, but that’s one of my bugbears.” Coulthard checks the walls of her house for a clue as to when England first played at Wembley.
(12) That's what politicians should be asking us to envisage when they set upon this bugbear with their big sticks: people on very low incomes earning a very small amount extra and not declaring it.
(13) The policy has helped to shape the landscape of diversity within higher education for 35 years, and has become an growing bugbear of the conservative right that sees it as a form of discrimination against white students.
(14) But the new performance management system, which is in its third year, is the major bugbear for most staff.
(15) After a pledge to pull the Tory party out of the main centre-right grouping in Brussels after the 2009 European elections backfired, Mr Cameron has largely ignored the issue of Europe - a bugbear for past Tory leaders from Margaret Thatcher onwards.
(16) The MPC appeared to have become more confident about the outlook for productivity, which has remained a bugbear of Britain’s post-crisis recovery.
(17) Much of the book is given over to how he got into campaigning for stem cell research, the hope of many Parkinson's sufferers and bugbear of the Christian right, which sees it as a moral equivalent to abortion.
(18) Among the biggest bugbears revealed in the consultation document – the draft ppdate guidance on green claims - are general, untestable claims like products being "eco-" or "environmentally friendly".
(19) Wendi not only has no voting position in the family trust (nor do her two children) and is quite a bugbear to the people who do, but she also hasn't had a job in almost 15 years.
(20) A chief bugbear of Van Gaal before this game had been that United needed to turn in a display for the full 90 minutes.