Bug vs Fat - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between bug and fat

is that bug is god while fat is .

bug

English

(wikipedia bug)

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.

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "bug": major, minor, serious, critical, nasty, annoying, important, strange, stupid, flying, silly.

Synonyms

* (An intercept device) wiretap * See also

Derived terms

* buglet * debug

Verb

(informal) To annoy.

Don’t bug me, I’m busy!

To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* bug out

Anagrams

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fat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) . See (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.

* Bible, Joel ii. 24

The fats shall overflow with wine[, strong drink] and oil.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 4, page 429:

In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat', for 6s. 10d., a wort ' fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.

(obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

Synonyms

* vat

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(fatter)

Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.

:The fat man had trouble getting through the door.

:The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

Thick.

:The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat , fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Bountiful.

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; said of food.

(obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

*:making our western wits fat and mean

*(Bible), (w) vi. 10

*:Make the heart of this people fat .

Fertile; productive.

:a fat''' soil; a '''fat pasture

Rich; producing a large income; desirable.

:a fat''' benefice; a '''fat''' office; a '''fat job

*(Thomas Carlyle) (1795-1881)

*:now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures

(dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.

:a fat''' take; a '''fat page

Synonyms

* (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat) chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also * (thick) thick * (bountiful) bountiful, prosperous

Antonyms

* Of sense (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat) lean, skinny, slender, slim, thin

Derived terms

* (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) *

Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.

(countable) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.

That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

We need to trim the fat in this company

(slang) An erection.

"I saw Daniel crack a fat ."

(golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)

The best or richest productions; the best part.

to live on the fat of the land

(dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.

Synonyms

* (animal tissue) adipose tissue, lard (in animals''; ''derogatory slang when used of human fat ) * (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat) grease, lard

Derived terms

* * fat camp * fat chance * fatten

Verb

(archaic) To make fat; to fatten.

kill the fatted calf

(archaic) To become fat; to fatten.

Anagrams

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