Bug vs Feature - What's the difference?
bug | feature |
An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
(colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
A problem that needs fixing, especially in computing.
* {{quote-book, year= 1878
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, quotee= (Thomas Edison)
, author= Thomas P. Hughes
, quoted_in= American Genesis: A History of the American Genius for Invention
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, title=Edison to Puskas, 13 November 1878, Edison papers
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, publisher= Penguin Books
, location= Edison National Laboratory, U.S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J.
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, 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.
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A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
An electronic intercept device
A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
(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
(aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments
A semi-automated telegraph key
* 1938 , Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport , page 257:
* 1942 , Arthur Reinhold Nilson, Radio Code Manual , page 134:
* 1986 , E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair , page 282:
(obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.
* Shakespeare
HIV.
(poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
(informal) To annoy.
To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
(label) One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:
An important or main item.
(label) A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
(label) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
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The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
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(label) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
(label) Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
To star, to contain.
to appear; to make an appearance.
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As nouns the difference between bug and feature
is that bug is god while feature is (label) one's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.As a verb feature is
to ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.bug
English
(wikipedia bug)Noun
(en noun)- These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
- The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.
- He’s got the flu bug .
- I think he’s a gold bug , he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.
- to catch the skiing bug
- We installed a bug in her telephone
- He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
- Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sir, spare your threats: / The bug which you would fright me with I seek.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "bug": major, minor, serious, critical, nasty, annoying, important, strange, stupid, flying, silly.Synonyms
* (An intercept device) wiretap * See alsoDerived terms
* buglet * debugSee also
* Balmain bug * bedbug * bug-eyed * gold bug * lightning bug * mealybug * mirid bug * Morton Bay bug * shield bug * snug as a bug in a rug * travel bug * true bugVerb
- Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
- We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bug outSee also
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English
(wikipedia feature)Noun
(en noun)- all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature .
- A feature' of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other ' features at these sites may include small hearths.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* featural * feature articleExternal links
*Verb
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