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(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
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, title= (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
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A human being, whether man, woman or child.
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, title= (lb) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
* 2013 , Biosocial Becomings (ISBN 110702563X), page 19:
* 1911 , The collected works of Ambrose Bierce , volume 9, page 362:
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.
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, year_published= 1989
, 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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, isbn= 0-14-009741-4
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, publisher= Penguin Books
, location= Edison National Laboratory, U.S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J.
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, 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.
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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.
As an adjective human
is (label) classical (of or pertaining to the classical - latin, greek - languages, literature, history and philosophy).As a noun bug is
god.human
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Adjective
(en adjective)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
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citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
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- Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* human behaviour * human being * human botfly * human capital * human chattel * human chorionic gonadotropin * human-computer interaction * human condition * human death * human development * Human Genome Project * human immunodeficiency virus * human insulin * human interest * humanism * humanist * humanization * humanize * humanizer * human knot * human kind, humankind * humanly * human movement * human nature * humanoid * human papillomavirus * human pyramid * human race * human relations * human resources (HR) * human rights * human trafficking * inhuman * inhumane * nonhuman, non-human * to err is human (human)Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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Verb
(en verb)- There are, then, many ways of humaning : these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.
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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.