Noun

(en noun)

An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").

(colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.

These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.

Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.

A problem that needs fixing, especially in computing.

The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.

* {{quote-book, year= 1878

, year_published= 1989 , quotee= (Thomas Edison) , author= Thomas P. Hughes , quoted_in= American Genesis: A History of the American Genius for Invention , url= , title=Edison to Puskas, 13 November 1878, Edison papers , type= cited by , chapter= , section= , isbn= 0-14-009741-4 , edition= , publisher= Penguin Books , location= Edison National Laboratory, U.S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J. , editor= , volume= , page= 75 , passage= I have the right principle and am on the right track, but time, hard work and some good luck are necessary too. It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise -- this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs " -- as such little faults and difficulties are called -- show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached. }}

A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it

He’s got the flu bug .

An enthusiasm for something; an obsession

I think he’s a gold bug , he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.

to catch the skiing bug

An electronic intercept device

We installed a bug in her telephone

A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.

He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.

(broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it

Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show

(aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments

A semi-automated telegraph key

* 1938 , Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport , page 257:

At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes "Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick," with his bug , as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.

* 1942 , Arthur Reinhold Nilson, Radio Code Manual , page 134:

As far as the dashes are concerned, the bug is the same in operation as any regular key would be if it were turned up on edge instead of sitting flat on the desk.

* 1986 , E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair , page 282:

I was a very good radio operator. I bought my own bug . That's what the telegraph key in its modern form was called. It was semiautomatic.

(obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.

* Shakespeare

Sir, spare your threats: / The bug which you would fright me with I seek.

HIV.

(poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any enclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.

That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.

Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.

* 1599 ,

Why had I not with charitable hand

Took up a beggar's issue at my gates

Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.

A discharge of flux, as of blood.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1611 , title = , section = , passage = And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: }}

An opening or outlet, providing for an exit or egress.

* 1881 , :

How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue ?

(medicine) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.

The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.

* Shakespeare

Come forth to view / The issue of the exploit.

* Shakespeare

While it is hot, I'll put it to the issue .

A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.

(legal) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination.

(finance) A financial instrument in a company, such as a bond, stock or other security; the emission of such an instrument.

(euphemistic) A problem or concern, usually of a mental nature.

He has issues .

An instalment of a periodical; a specific instance of a regular publication

The July issue of the magazine is in shops now.