病毒 — meaning in English

English meaning

• bug noun A small insect, or loosely, any small crawling or flying creature.
• virus noun A microscopic infectious agent that can only reproduce inside a living host cell, sometimes causing disease.

Senses

病毒 is used for these senses in English:

• bug A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
• virus A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).

bug — full definition

1. noun A small insect, or loosely, any small crawling or flying creature.
2. noun An error or flaw in a computer program or piece of software.
3. noun A minor, usually short-lived illness, or the germ that causes it.
4. noun A hidden device used to secretly record or transmit conversations.
5. verb To annoy or irritate someone.

virus — full definition

1. noun A microscopic infectious agent that can only reproduce inside a living host cell, sometimes causing disease.
2. noun A disease caused by such an agent.
3. noun Malicious software that spreads between computers, often damaging files or data.

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