Embarrassment vs Glitch - What's the difference?
embarrassment | glitch |
A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
A state of confusion arising from hesitation or difficulty in choosing.
A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
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(medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment .
A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
(video games) A bug or an exploit.
(music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
(video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
As nouns the difference between embarrassment and glitch
is that embarrassment is a state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation while glitch is a problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk.As a verb glitch is
to experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction.embarrassment
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
- ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
Derived terms
* embarrassment of richesExternal links
* *glitch
English
Noun
(wikipedia glitch) (es)- They are still trying to work out all the glitches .
- Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
Derived terms
* glitchcoreQuotations
* 1962 , (John Glenn) *: Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current. * 1965 , Time magazine *: Glitches —a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.Verb
(es)- My computer keeps glitching ; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
- His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.