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The word bug has a number of senses in English. In American English is usually used to describe very small animals (such as insects, spiders, snails, slugs, etc.). (In Commonwealth English the words 'creepy crawlies' are often used.) From this meaning stem many others. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary full URL is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... American English (AmE) is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ... Classes & Orders Subclass: Apterygota Orders Archaeognatha (Bristletails) Thysanura (Silverfish) Monura - extinct Subclass: Pterygota Orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Infraclass: Neoptera Orders Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (walking sticks) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera... Suborders Araneomorphae Mesothelae Mygalomorphae See the taxonomy section for families Spiders are invertebrate animals that produce silk, have eight legs and no wings. ... Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) The name snail applies to most members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells. ... Slugs are gastropods without shells or with very small shells (often which are internal), in contrast with snails from which they share a common ancestor, which have a prominent shell. ... Commonwealth English is intended as a collective term for the perceived standard English language used in the Commonwealth of Nations1, applying in theory to Australian English, British English, Caribbean English, Canadian English, Hiberno-English (Irish English)2, Hong Kong English3, Indian English (includes Pakistani English), New Zealand English, formal Singapore...

Zoology

• Technically, bug is a precise scientific term that refers to insects of the order Hemiptera, which have mouthpieces adapted for piercing and sucking, contained in a beak-like structure known as a rostrum. The term true bugs is often used to avoid ambiguity.
• Bug is often used in vernacular to refer generally to any small, terrestrial arthropod, sometimes taken to include creatures like snails and slugs as well.
• Bug is a term used in Australia as a name for two species of edible crustaceans of the family Scyllaridae, the Moreton Bay bug (Thenus orientalis) and the Balmain bug (Ibacus peronii). The same term is occasionally used in New England to refer to the common lobsters eaten there.
• Since it refers to small animals, the term bug is also occasionally (and inaccurately) used to refer to microscopic life forms and viruses. Somebody might refer to having caught the "pneumonia bug", for instance.

Classes & Orders Subclass: Apterygota Orders Archaeognatha (Bristletails) Thysanura (Silverfish) Monura - extinct Subclass: Pterygota Orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Infraclass: Neoptera Orders Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (walking sticks) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera... Suborders Heteroptera Homoptera Hemiptera is an order of insects, comprising some 67,500 known species in two suborders, Heteroptera and Homoptera. ... The term true bug refers to the insects of the order Hemiptera and in particular to those of the suborder Heteroptera. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... Classes Class Branchiopoda Subclass Phyllopoda Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Order Enantiopoda Order Nectiopoda Class Cephalocarida Order Brachypoda Class Maxillopoda Subclass Mystacocarida Subclass Copepoda Subclass Branchiura Subclass Pentastomida Subclass Tantulocarida Subclass Thecostraca Infraclass Cirripedia Class Ostracoda Order Metacopina Subclass Myodocopa Subclass Podocopa Class Malacostraca Subclass Eumalacostraca Subclass Hoplocarida Subclass Phyllocarida The... Genera Acantharctus Antarctus Antipodarctus Bathyarctus Biarctus Chelarctus Crenarctus Eduarctus Galearctus Gibbularctus Ibacus Parribacus Petrarctus Remiarctus Scammarctus Scyllarus Scyllarides Thenus Slipper lobsters are a family of achelate (clawless) decapod crustaceans found in all warm oceans and seas. ... While the states marked in red show the core of New England, the regions cultural influence may cover a greater or lesser area than shown. ... Subfamilies and Genera Neophoberinae Acanthacaris Thymopinae Nephropsis Nephropides Thymops Thymopsis Nephropinae Homarus Nephrops Homarinus Metanephrops Eunephrops Thymopides Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. ... A virus is a small particle that infects cells in biological organisms. ...

Technology

• A further extension of the sense of "small lifeforms" is to small surveillance or wiretapping devices. This can be seen as an extension of the existing meaning of something which is small and irritating (the possible presence of surveillance bugs acts as a detriment to free speech in any context). Alternatively, a bugging device could also be likened to a "fly on the wall" - another kind of bug. See bugging and telephone tapping.
• In computing, a bug is an unwanted behavior of a computer program or electronic device. More specific terms are failure or defect. See computer bug or debugging.
• In a flight instrument, a bug is a manually positioned marker or pointer which is set to remind the pilot where the needle on the instrument should be pointing. This avoids the need to hold settings in memory, allowing the pilot to simply keep the needle aligned with the bug. The term may have arisen because of the superficial similarity to the appearance of an insect.
• In television, a bug is a TV station or TV network logo superimposed on the screen as a watermark over programming, usually in the lower right corner of the video screen. Also see Digital On-screen Graphic.

Surveillance is close monitoring of behavior. ... Telephone tapping or wire tapping/ wiretapping (in US) is the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party, often by covert means. ... A bug is the common name for a covert listening device, usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. ... A bug is the common name for a covert listening device, usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. ... Telephone tapping or wire tapping/ wiretapping (in US) is the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party, often by covert means. ... Sentence: George W. Bush Is A Complete Failure Failure in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. ... Defect is the n00b of the animating world, everybody knows that he cannot and will not animate. ... A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working as intended, or produces an incorrect result. ... Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected. ... Most aircraft are equipped with a standard set of flight instruments which give the pilot information about the aircrafts attitude, airspeed, and altitude. ... A Digital On-Screen Graphic is a watermark-like station logo that many television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area of their programmes to assist viewers in identifying the channel. ... A television station is a type of radio station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... A logotype, commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface/font, or arranged in a particular, but legible, way. ... This Crown & CA (for Crown Agent) watermark was standard for postage stamps of the British colonies from the 1880s to the 1920s. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... DOG Redirects here. ...

Gambling

• In gambling jargon, a bug is a small holdout device that can secretly be attached at the underside of the card table for the purpose of cheating. A card cheat will use a bug to conceal extra cards under the table for further use.
• In some variants of poker, the bug is a restricted wild card, which can either represent an ace or fill a gap in a straight or flush.

Gambling (or betting) is any behavior involving risking money or property (making a wager or placing a stake) on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event in which the outcome of that activity depends partially or totally upon chance or upon ones ability to do something. ... You may have reached this page trying to find the Jargon File A jargon is a type of slang which is used in conjunction with a specific activity, e. ... In gambling jargon, a holdout is any of numerous accessories used by cheats to help them hold-out a card (or cards) during a game. ... Wikibooks Poker has more about this subject: Poker Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the remaining player or players with the... A bug in poker is a limited form of wild card. ... Poker games may contain one or more cards designated as wild. ... The acronym ACE, depending on context, can refer to: ACE Pastime Hardware Accelerated Christian Education Accumulated Cyclone Energy, a measure of the activity of Atlantic hurricane seasons Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source class framework Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA satellite Advanced Computing Environment, a defunct initiative to define a... A straight is a poker hand such as Q♣ J♠ 10♠ 9♥ 8♥, which contains five cards of sequential rank, of varying suits. ... A flush is a poker hand such as Q♣ 10♣ 7♣ 6♣ 4♣, which contains five cards of the same suit, not in rank sequence. ...

Other

• Bug (river) (pronunciation Boog) is the name of two rivers in Europe
• Bug (movie) was directed by Jeannot Szwarc in 1975.
• To bug someone (vt) is a synonym for annoying someone, presumably derived from the informal category of animals, since such animals (such as mosquitoes, flies and cockroach) are often irritating and frustrating.
• One can catch a bug for something they have discovered they enjoy and suddenly want to do all the time; for instance, "a skiing bug".
• Bug is a name for a special kind of semi-automated Morse code key originally manufactured by the Vibroplex company.
• Bug is a common nickname for the VW Beetle.
• Bug is the name of two rivers in eastern Europe, the Western and Southern Bug
• BUG is computer magazine published in Croatia.
• A Bug is a mixed-breed dog. It is the result of the breeding of a Pug and a Boston Terrier.
• Bug is the ISO 639 code for the Buginese language.