Synonyms for bug in English

– a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use ¹

– general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate ¹

– insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis ¹

– a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly ¹

– a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine ¹

– An error in coding or logic that causes a program to malfunction or to produce incorrect results. ²

– A type of work item that records a potential source of dissatisfaction with the product. The common name of a work item type for tracking code defects. ²

– A recurring physical problem that prevents a system or set of components from working together properly. While the origin of this definition is in some dispute, computer folklore attributes the first use of bug in this sense to a problem in the Harvard Mark I or the Army/University of Pennsylvania ENIAC that was traced to a moth caught between the contacts of a relay in the machine (although a moth is not entomologically a true bug). ²

– annoy persistently ¹

– tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information ¹