BACTERIA Synonyms

• any organism of microscopic size

• general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

• a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

• a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

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

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

• annoy persistently

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

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

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

• a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

• a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body

• any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

• (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

• a harmful or corrupting agency

• a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer