(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.
Debug
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) China's giant telescope represents its big ambitions for science Read more Scientists would start debugging and trials of the telescope, said Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope.
(2) I'm hoping that the debugging code within the iOS core is partly to blame here, and once it reaches release the core's footprint will shrink and things will run as smoothly as iOS 4.
(3) 8-yr.-olds who learned Logo in school were found to use both debugging techniques and procedurality in their computer programming.
(4) Using the simulator in the development and debugging of control programs has several advantages over using the real pump: it provides detailed pump status information and it can stimulate various error and alarm conditions to comprehensively test the error recovery procedures of the control program.
(5) The assessment of growth changes was based on the method of superimposition described by Björk and Skieller (1983) supplemented by a new computerized debugging procedure.
(6) But it seems many parents will be surprised when their children come home from school talking about algorithms, debugging and Boolean logic.
(7) House has a PhD in electrical engineering and is an expert in user interfaces – now she's applying that skill with systems to a workforce, - she is effectively debugging the development team.
(8) In this paper we show a program written in BASIC and debugged on a Sharp MZ-700 personal computer, equipped with the Sharp MZ-1P01 plotter.
(9) Boys, but not girls, trained in Logo showed an improvement in debugging skills relative to the control children.
(10) Key Stage 2 (7-11 year-olds): Slightly older primary-school children will be creating and debugging more complicated programs with specific goals and getting to grips with concepts including variables and “sequence, selection, and repetition in programs”.
(11) They and a group of control children of the same age were pre- and posttested on a game requiring debugging skills (Mastermind) and another game requiring procedural skills (Tower of Hanoi).
(12) But they will also be creating and debugging simple programs of their own, developing logical reasoning skills and taking their first steps in using devices to “create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content”.
(13) Use of the preprocessor does not interfere with the capability to debug programs interactively which is one of the most helpful characteristics of interpretive implementations of BASIC.
(14) Two 2-D graphic display tools are developed to help the debugging of a given geometric model.
(15) The authors debugged and launched into routine operation an automated monitoring system using computer techniques.
(16) And it also turned out that Obama's advisers were so paranoid about Republican attacks that they refused to allow the beta testing essential to debug any high-traffic site.
(17) The common theme of the successful places I’d seen seemed to be a handful of hardy young entrepreneurs, the sort who can make their own clothes, granola and business plans at the same time as snowboarding the local mountains or debugging a laptop: the cool tycoons.
(18) Software development for the front-end is performed on the host with program down-load for interactive debugging.
(19) For ease in debugging and verifying adherence to the standard, all information in the file is encoded in printable ASCII characters.
(20) In addition, it has features which aid in debugging associated programs.