Bug and Problem

noun

• General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
• A fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine.
  • synonyms: glitch
• A small hidden microphone; for listening secretly.
• Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis.
  • synonyms: hemipterous insect, hemipteran, hemipteron
• A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use.
  • synonyms: microbe, germ

verb

• Annoy persistently.
  • usage: "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
  • synonyms: tease, badger, pester, beleaguer
• Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information.
  • usage: "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged"
  • synonyms: wiretap, tap, intercept

• (n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
• (n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
• (n.) A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
• (n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
• (n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.

noun

• A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved.
  • usage: "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
  • synonyms: job
• A question raised for consideration or solution.
  • usage: "our homework consisted of ten problems to solve"
• A source of difficulty.
  • usage: "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem"
  • synonyms: trouble

• (n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
• (n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.