(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.
Intercept
Definition:
(v. t.) To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris.
(v. t.) To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river.
(v. t.) To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade.
(v. t.) To include between; as, that part of the line which is intercepted between the points A and B.
(n.) A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
(2) Now we need parliament to step in to fix what should have been fixed a long time ago.” In relation to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the IPT found that “email communications ... were lawfully and proportionately intercepted and accessed ...
(3) However, the intercept of the curve continued to increase in that region, as expected, because of the additional paramagnetic ions.
(4) Even as those words were being published, lawyers and senior executives from News International's subsidiary News Group were preparing to run to court to gag Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who was suing the News of the World for its undisclosed involvement in the illegal interception of messages left on his mobile phone.
(5) The relationship between bile flow and bile salt output obtained during the administration of sodium taurocholate at stepwise-increasing rates indicated that bile salt-independent bile flow (y-intercept) was diminished by 37% in SZ-treated rats.
(6) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
(7) The effect of GSH is attributed to dioxetane interception and subsequent glutathione peroxidation generating 1O2 by electron transfer from the superoxide anion radical to a peroxysulfenyl radical.
(8) It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Xinhua reported after Tuesday’s launch.
(9) It was found that the regression line in the "obese patient" group was displaced to the right and parallel to the regression line in the "normal patient" group, while the regression line in the "hypothermic patient" group was less sloping and showed a higher intercept.
(10) This was because 71% of the ophthalmic arteries arose from the supero-medial aspect of the ICA, and because there was nothing to intercept the view of the medial aspect of the ICA under the optic nerve.
(11) In the second affair, a month before polling day, Australian authorities intercepted a boatload of distressed people bound for the northern shores.
(12) The removal of protein and high phospholipid:cholesterol ratios decreased the slope of the lines (fluidity increased), although the intercept was unaffected.
(13) Obama aides cited intercepted communications of Syrian officials and evidence of movements by Syria's military around Damascus before the attack that killed more than 300 people, said Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee.
(14) Despite small differences in the mean linear intercept seen at 1 and at 16 months, both male and female tsk mice were found to be similarly susceptible to the development of the emphysematous lesion.
(15) "Was there a conspiracy between Mulcaire and News Group Newspapers to intercept voicemail messages?
(16) 34 min: England turn the screw, with Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole combining beautifully down the left flank, before the full-back brings a crucial interception out of Ricardo Clark when he pulls the ball back into the penalty area from the touchline.
(17) Essentially, the slide suggests that the NSA also collects some information under FAA702 from cable intercepts, but that process is distinct from Prism.
(18) The files reveal that their telephone calls and letters were intercepted and that MI5 informants reported on their activities during the second world war and for years afterwards.
(19) Gross interceptive occlusal contacts should be corrected in all patients.
(20) Aston Villa goalkeeper intercepts and clutches the ball to his chest.