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Embarrassment vs Glitch - What's the difference?

embarrassment | glitch |

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)
  • 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.
  • ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
    ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
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  • (medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment .
  • Derived terms

    * embarrassment of riches

    glitch

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia glitch) (es)
  • A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
  • They are still trying to work out all the glitches .
  • (video games) A bug or an exploit.
  • Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * glitchcore

    Quotations

    * 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)
  • To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
  • My computer keeps glitching ; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
  • (video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
  • His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

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