What is the difference between Bog and Bug?




What is the difference between Bog and Bug? :


Bog : (adjective)

(
1 ) Area of wet spongy ground formed of decaying vegetation

Let us keep to the path. Parts of the moor are bog.



Bog : (verb)

(
1 ) Cause something to sink into mud or wet ground

The tank got bogged down in the mud.


(
2 ) Cause something to become stuck and unable to make progress

Our discussion got bogged down in irrelevant detail.



Bug : (noun)

(
1 ) Small flat foul-smelling insect infesting dirty houses and beds

Outside our house is full of bugs.


(
2 ) Illness caused by a germ or infectious virus

He thinks he had caught a bug.


(
3 ) Obsessive interest

He was never interested in cooking before. But now he has been bitten by a bug.


(
4 ) Defect in a machine

There is a bug in the system.


(
5 ) Small hidden microphone placed so that conservations can be heard at a distance

He searched the rooms for bugs.

We planted a bug in the house of our rival.

Our intelligence services planted a bug in that foreign embassy.



Bug : (verb)

(
1 ) Fit a room, telephone, etc…with a hidden microphone for listening to conversations

This office is bugged.


(
2 ) Listen to conversations, etc… with a hidden microphone

Be careful with what you say…. may be our conversations are being bugged.


(
3 ) Annoy someone

Irritate

Tell me what is bugging you.

That girl is really bugging me.











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