Definition of glitch in English:

glitch

noun ɡlɪtʃɡlɪtʃ

informal

1A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment.
（设备）突然失灵；不规则运转（通常是暂时的）
a draft version was lost in a computer glitch
由于计算机突然出了故障，因此草稿丢失了。
Example sentencesExamples
- They are confident it has hit a temporary glitch.
- So far, schools say, computer glitches have made it a disaster.
- The woman in the call centre told me that the letter had been sent out by accident - a computer glitch, she told me.
- I knew there hadn't been any of those, so it must have been a temporary glitch, right?
- He plays his pirated cassette of the score, with its glitches and sudden stops, over and over again.
- System overloads cause brief glitches and outages, draining the power we take for granted from our appliances and modern devices.
- We had built in so many different second and third order kind of contingencies in order to be prepared for various glitches and faults and problems and whatever else.
- There concerns centre on ATM-style voting machines that computer scientists have criticised for software glitches, hacking and malfunctioning.
- In fact our watches are a long time investment lasting years with no glitches.
- It took most of the next morning to figure out the glitch and devise a temporary fix.
- He hopes that will prove to have been a temporary glitch in his quest for more glory.
- When you do not arm yourself with the mental equipment to handle glitches in your daily plans, you set yourself up for needless disappointment and misery.
- Every now and then, there is frustration when there is a software glitch or a hardware fault, causing messages to appear on the screen in highly technical language.
- Computer glitches, bad weather, a number of airline workers sick-outs all contributed to leaving thousands of flights unflown and piles of baggage unhandled.
- Many firms see the recessionary side of the current market as a temporary glitch, rather than a cause for serious concern.
- As a brief glitch this would have been irritating but excusable.
- Errors include transposed numbers, faulty equipment, mutilated punch cards and computer glitches.
- The show is 100% sold out, and through a computer glitch in the box office, there were twenty double bookings.
- However, the department has dismissed the issue as a temporary glitch and says the tagging of sheep will do a lot more for the credibility of the industry than farmers care to admit.
- He said the test followed a week of delays caused by weather and technical glitches, including malfunction of an internal battery aboard the target missile on Tuesday.
Synonyms
crash, breakdown, fault, failure, defect, flaw, collapse, impairment
1. 1.1 An unexpected setback.
  （计划受到的）意外挫折
  the only glitch in his year is failing to qualify for the Masters
  Example sentencesExamples
  He soon learns that the complex has been inconvenienced by security glitches.
  In reality, there are a number of opportunities for glitches, delays and missteps.
  Instead a mission that's already had its share of hitches and glitches will land somewhere tomorrow.
  The ten-year term of the contract should supply enough time to work through the inevitable glitches and to obtain real benefits.
  People who would love and cherish a child and because of some cosmic glitch may never get to do so.
  The daily meeting provides you with an opportunity to ask questions and be reassured, and it provides the contractor with an opportunity to explain glitches, delays, and so on.
  You might encounter schedule changes, unpredictable weather delays or any number of travel glitches.
  A slight glitch in the real life, nothing terribly serious, just time consuming.
  This was a mistake, a glitch or hiccup in Lara's life plans.
  From the perspective of senior combat officers, these problems are not simply minor glitches in an otherwise adequate plan, but rather symptoms of a deeply flawed blueprint.
  As your ruler Mercury goes retrograde, you could experience an unexpected glitch.
  There are so many problems, so many glitches, so many ways with which this bill is not good even short-term policy, that we are going to have to figure out a way to address it.
  Pretesting was very important for detecting a range of potential problems, from logistical glitches to problems with methods or threats to accuracy.
  I was the unexpected glitch in everyone's plan.
  The one glitch of the play that I must note was the unexpected thunder at the start of the second half of the performance after intermission.
  It may seem obvious after shares in a glitch company have recovered, but how do investors differentiate a glitch from a problem that is more systemic within a business?
  But it seems to me that we've encountered more glitches of late, as the competitive landscape has heated up.
  The revenue management general manager blamed the problem on internal glitches in the municipality.
  The trick is to be prepared for all the unexpected glitches.
  Synonyms
  problem, difficulty, issue, hitch, complication, upset, disappointment, misfortune, mishap, piece of bad luck, unfortunate development, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune
2. 1.2Astronomy A brief irregularity in the rotation of a pulsar.
  〔天文〕（脉冲星）自转突变
  Example sentencesExamples
  The laboratory demonstration is related to puzzling glitches observed by astronomers in the otherwise smooth, rapid rotation of pulsars.
  Notice that the lines of the flow-volume curve are free of glitches and irregularities.

verb ɡlɪtʃɡlɪtʃ

[no object]US informal

Suffer a sudden malfunction or fault.
〈主美〉突然失灵；不规则地运转
the elevators glitched
Example sentencesExamples
- The old combat system glitched frequently and simply wasn't capable of handling multiple contacts, limiting its usefulness in a hostile situation.
- This market has a unique requirement - it cannot tolerate a disruption in the data flow or the picture you're viewing on the screen will glitch.
- Then she noticed the DNA scanner and the primary security glitching as well, the other things that had been functional during the blast.
- On Saturday I went into work to find our server had glitched at some point between Friday night and Saturday morning, so I spent most of Saturday morning getting it back to the way it was.
- I'm curious how that notoriously unreliable piece of engineering, the human body, will cause glitches in this system.
- One of the screens glitched and both men looked at it.
- Now the beauty is that the hologram forms so tightly to your body that if someone touches the hologram it doesn't glitch or anything.
- He also would frequently get angry when the programs would glitch and he couldn't write what he wanted to on the screen.
- I bought it in, like, September, and it's glitching beyond belief.

Origin

1960s (originally US): of unknown origin. The original sense was 'a sudden surge of current', hence 'malfunction, hitch' in astronautical slang.

Although nowadays a glitch can be any kind of hitch or snag, the word was originally used by US electronic engineers in the 1960s to mean ‘a sudden surge of electrical current’. Astronauts began using the word to talk about any sudden malfunction of equipment. It may derive from Yiddish glitsh ‘a slippery place’.

Rhymes

bewitch, bitch, ditch, enrich, fitch, flitch, hitch, itch, kitsch, Mitch, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, switch, titch, twitch, which, witch

Definition of glitch in US English:

glitch

nounɡlɪtʃɡliCH

informal

1A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
（设备）突然失灵；不规则运转（通常是暂时的）
a draft version was lost in a computer glitch
由于计算机突然出了故障，因此草稿丢失了。
Example sentencesExamples
- We had built in so many different second and third order kind of contingencies in order to be prepared for various glitches and faults and problems and whatever else.
- It took most of the next morning to figure out the glitch and devise a temporary fix.
- Many firms see the recessionary side of the current market as a temporary glitch, rather than a cause for serious concern.
- They are confident it has hit a temporary glitch.
- Errors include transposed numbers, faulty equipment, mutilated punch cards and computer glitches.
- The show is 100% sold out, and through a computer glitch in the box office, there were twenty double bookings.
- System overloads cause brief glitches and outages, draining the power we take for granted from our appliances and modern devices.
- Computer glitches, bad weather, a number of airline workers sick-outs all contributed to leaving thousands of flights unflown and piles of baggage unhandled.
- In fact our watches are a long time investment lasting years with no glitches.
- He plays his pirated cassette of the score, with its glitches and sudden stops, over and over again.
- There concerns centre on ATM-style voting machines that computer scientists have criticised for software glitches, hacking and malfunctioning.
- He hopes that will prove to have been a temporary glitch in his quest for more glory.
- As a brief glitch this would have been irritating but excusable.
- I knew there hadn't been any of those, so it must have been a temporary glitch, right?
- When you do not arm yourself with the mental equipment to handle glitches in your daily plans, you set yourself up for needless disappointment and misery.
- However, the department has dismissed the issue as a temporary glitch and says the tagging of sheep will do a lot more for the credibility of the industry than farmers care to admit.
- Every now and then, there is frustration when there is a software glitch or a hardware fault, causing messages to appear on the screen in highly technical language.
- So far, schools say, computer glitches have made it a disaster.
- He said the test followed a week of delays caused by weather and technical glitches, including malfunction of an internal battery aboard the target missile on Tuesday.
- The woman in the call centre told me that the letter had been sent out by accident - a computer glitch, she told me.
Synonyms
crash, breakdown, fault, failure, defect, flaw, collapse, impairment
1. 1.1 An unexpected setback in a plan.
  （计划受到的）意外挫折
  this has been the first real glitch they've encountered in a three months' tour
  在这次为期三个月的旅行中，这还是他们第一次遇到真正的挫折。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The one glitch of the play that I must note was the unexpected thunder at the start of the second half of the performance after intermission.
  In reality, there are a number of opportunities for glitches, delays and missteps.
  People who would love and cherish a child and because of some cosmic glitch may never get to do so.
  There are so many problems, so many glitches, so many ways with which this bill is not good even short-term policy, that we are going to have to figure out a way to address it.
  The revenue management general manager blamed the problem on internal glitches in the municipality.
  From the perspective of senior combat officers, these problems are not simply minor glitches in an otherwise adequate plan, but rather symptoms of a deeply flawed blueprint.
  Instead a mission that's already had its share of hitches and glitches will land somewhere tomorrow.
  You might encounter schedule changes, unpredictable weather delays or any number of travel glitches.
  The ten-year term of the contract should supply enough time to work through the inevitable glitches and to obtain real benefits.
  He soon learns that the complex has been inconvenienced by security glitches.
  This was a mistake, a glitch or hiccup in Lara's life plans.
  But it seems to me that we've encountered more glitches of late, as the competitive landscape has heated up.
  It may seem obvious after shares in a glitch company have recovered, but how do investors differentiate a glitch from a problem that is more systemic within a business?
  As your ruler Mercury goes retrograde, you could experience an unexpected glitch.
  Pretesting was very important for detecting a range of potential problems, from logistical glitches to problems with methods or threats to accuracy.
  The trick is to be prepared for all the unexpected glitches.
  A slight glitch in the real life, nothing terribly serious, just time consuming.
  I was the unexpected glitch in everyone's plan.
  The daily meeting provides you with an opportunity to ask questions and be reassured, and it provides the contractor with an opportunity to explain glitches, delays, and so on.
  Synonyms
  problem, difficulty, issue, hitch, complication, upset, disappointment, misfortune, mishap, piece of bad luck, unfortunate development, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune
2. 1.2Astronomy A brief irregularity in the rotation of a pulsar.
  〔天文〕（脉冲星）自转突变
  Example sentencesExamples
  Notice that the lines of the flow-volume curve are free of glitches and irregularities.
  The laboratory demonstration is related to puzzling glitches observed by astronomers in the otherwise smooth, rapid rotation of pulsars.

verbɡlɪtʃɡliCH

[no object]US informal

Suffer a sudden malfunction or irregularity.
〈主美〉突然失灵；不规则地运转
her job involves troubleshooting when systems glitch
她的工作就是在系统失灵时进行检修。
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm curious how that notoriously unreliable piece of engineering, the human body, will cause glitches in this system.
- Then she noticed the DNA scanner and the primary security glitching as well, the other things that had been functional during the blast.
- This market has a unique requirement - it cannot tolerate a disruption in the data flow or the picture you're viewing on the screen will glitch.
- I bought it in, like, September, and it's glitching beyond belief.
- One of the screens glitched and both men looked at it.
- He also would frequently get angry when the programs would glitch and he couldn't write what he wanted to on the screen.
- The old combat system glitched frequently and simply wasn't capable of handling multiple contacts, limiting its usefulness in a hostile situation.
- On Saturday I went into work to find our server had glitched at some point between Friday night and Saturday morning, so I spent most of Saturday morning getting it back to the way it was.
- Now the beauty is that the hologram forms so tightly to your body that if someone touches the hologram it doesn't glitch or anything.

Origin

1960s (originally US): of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a sudden surge of current’, hence ‘malfunction, hitch’ in astronautical slang.

单词	glitch
释义	Definition of glitch in English: glitch noun ɡlɪtʃɡlɪtʃ informal 1A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment. （设备）突然失灵；不规则运转（通常是暂时的） a draft version was lost in a computer glitch 由于计算机突然出了故障，因此草稿丢失了。 Example sentencesExamples They are confident it has hit a temporary glitch. So far, schools say, computer glitches have made it a disaster. The woman in the call centre told me that the letter had been sent out by accident - a computer glitch, she told me. I knew there hadn't been any of those, so it must have been a temporary glitch, right? He plays his pirated cassette of the score, with its glitches and sudden stops, over and over again. System overloads cause brief glitches and outages, draining the power we take for granted from our appliances and modern devices. We had built in so many different second and third order kind of contingencies in order to be prepared for various glitches and faults and problems and whatever else. There concerns centre on ATM-style voting machines that computer scientists have criticised for software glitches, hacking and malfunctioning. In fact our watches are a long time investment lasting years with no glitches. It took most of the next morning to figure out the glitch and devise a temporary fix. He hopes that will prove to have been a temporary glitch in his quest for more glory. When you do not arm yourself with the mental equipment to handle glitches in your daily plans, you set yourself up for needless disappointment and misery. Every now and then, there is frustration when there is a software glitch or a hardware fault, causing messages to appear on the screen in highly technical language. Computer glitches, bad weather, a number of airline workers sick-outs all contributed to leaving thousands of flights unflown and piles of baggage unhandled. Many firms see the recessionary side of the current market as a temporary glitch, rather than a cause for serious concern. As a brief glitch this would have been irritating but excusable. Errors include transposed numbers, faulty equipment, mutilated punch cards and computer glitches. The show is 100% sold out, and through a computer glitch in the box office, there were twenty double bookings. However, the department has dismissed the issue as a temporary glitch and says the tagging of sheep will do a lot more for the credibility of the industry than farmers care to admit. He said the test followed a week of delays caused by weather and technical glitches, including malfunction of an internal battery aboard the target missile on Tuesday. Synonyms crash, breakdown, fault, failure, defect, flaw, collapse, impairment 1.1 An unexpected setback. （计划受到的）意外挫折 the only glitch in his year is failing to qualify for the Masters Example sentencesExamples He soon learns that the complex has been inconvenienced by security glitches. In reality, there are a number of opportunities for glitches, delays and missteps. Instead a mission that's already had its share of hitches and glitches will land somewhere tomorrow. The ten-year term of the contract should supply enough time to work through the inevitable glitches and to obtain real benefits. People who would love and cherish a child and because of some cosmic glitch may never get to do so. The daily meeting provides you with an opportunity to ask questions and be reassured, and it provides the contractor with an opportunity to explain glitches, delays, and so on. You might encounter schedule changes, unpredictable weather delays or any number of travel glitches. A slight glitch in the real life, nothing terribly serious, just time consuming. This was a mistake, a glitch or hiccup in Lara's life plans. From the perspective of senior combat officers, these problems are not simply minor glitches in an otherwise adequate plan, but rather symptoms of a deeply flawed blueprint. As your ruler Mercury goes retrograde, you could experience an unexpected glitch. There are so many problems, so many glitches, so many ways with which this bill is not good even short-term policy, that we are going to have to figure out a way to address it. Pretesting was very important for detecting a range of potential problems, from logistical glitches to problems with methods or threats to accuracy. I was the unexpected glitch in everyone's plan. The one glitch of the play that I must note was the unexpected thunder at the start of the second half of the performance after intermission. It may seem obvious after shares in a glitch company have recovered, but how do investors differentiate a glitch from a problem that is more systemic within a business? But it seems to me that we've encountered more glitches of late, as the competitive landscape has heated up. The revenue management general manager blamed the problem on internal glitches in the municipality. The trick is to be prepared for all the unexpected glitches. Synonyms problem, difficulty, issue, hitch, complication, upset, disappointment, misfortune, mishap, piece of bad luck, unfortunate development, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune 1.2Astronomy A brief irregularity in the rotation of a pulsar. 〔天文〕（脉冲星）自转突变 Example sentencesExamples The laboratory demonstration is related to puzzling glitches observed by astronomers in the otherwise smooth, rapid rotation of pulsars. Notice that the lines of the flow-volume curve are free of glitches and irregularities. verb ɡlɪtʃɡlɪtʃ [no object]US informal Suffer a sudden malfunction or fault. 〈主美〉突然失灵；不规则地运转 the elevators glitched Example sentencesExamples The old combat system glitched frequently and simply wasn't capable of handling multiple contacts, limiting its usefulness in a hostile situation. This market has a unique requirement - it cannot tolerate a disruption in the data flow or the picture you're viewing on the screen will glitch. Then she noticed the DNA scanner and the primary security glitching as well, the other things that had been functional during the blast. On Saturday I went into work to find our server had glitched at some point between Friday night and Saturday morning, so I spent most of Saturday morning getting it back to the way it was. I'm curious how that notoriously unreliable piece of engineering, the human body, will cause glitches in this system. One of the screens glitched and both men looked at it. Now the beauty is that the hologram forms so tightly to your body that if someone touches the hologram it doesn't glitch or anything. He also would frequently get angry when the programs would glitch and he couldn't write what he wanted to on the screen. I bought it in, like, September, and it's glitching beyond belief. Origin 1960s (originally US): of unknown origin. The original sense was 'a sudden surge of current', hence 'malfunction, hitch' in astronautical slang. Although nowadays a glitch can be any kind of hitch or snag, the word was originally used by US electronic engineers in the 1960s to mean ‘a sudden surge of electrical current’. Astronauts began using the word to talk about any sudden malfunction of equipment. It may derive from Yiddish glitsh ‘a slippery place’. Rhymes bewitch, bitch, ditch, enrich, fitch, flitch, hitch, itch, kitsch, Mitch, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, switch, titch, twitch, which, witch Definition of glitch in US English: glitch nounɡlɪtʃɡliCH informal 1A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment. （设备）突然失灵；不规则运转（通常是暂时的） a draft version was lost in a computer glitch 由于计算机突然出了故障，因此草稿丢失了。 Example sentencesExamples We had built in so many different second and third order kind of contingencies in order to be prepared for various glitches and faults and problems and whatever else. It took most of the next morning to figure out the glitch and devise a temporary fix. Many firms see the recessionary side of the current market as a temporary glitch, rather than a cause for serious concern. They are confident it has hit a temporary glitch. Errors include transposed numbers, faulty equipment, mutilated punch cards and computer glitches. The show is 100% sold out, and through a computer glitch in the box office, there were twenty double bookings. System overloads cause brief glitches and outages, draining the power we take for granted from our appliances and modern devices. Computer glitches, bad weather, a number of airline workers sick-outs all contributed to leaving thousands of flights unflown and piles of baggage unhandled. In fact our watches are a long time investment lasting years with no glitches. He plays his pirated cassette of the score, with its glitches and sudden stops, over and over again. There concerns centre on ATM-style voting machines that computer scientists have criticised for software glitches, hacking and malfunctioning. He hopes that will prove to have been a temporary glitch in his quest for more glory. As a brief glitch this would have been irritating but excusable. I knew there hadn't been any of those, so it must have been a temporary glitch, right? When you do not arm yourself with the mental equipment to handle glitches in your daily plans, you set yourself up for needless disappointment and misery. However, the department has dismissed the issue as a temporary glitch and says the tagging of sheep will do a lot more for the credibility of the industry than farmers care to admit. Every now and then, there is frustration when there is a software glitch or a hardware fault, causing messages to appear on the screen in highly technical language. So far, schools say, computer glitches have made it a disaster. He said the test followed a week of delays caused by weather and technical glitches, including malfunction of an internal battery aboard the target missile on Tuesday. The woman in the call centre told me that the letter had been sent out by accident - a computer glitch, she told me. Synonyms crash, breakdown, fault, failure, defect, flaw, collapse, impairment 1.1 An unexpected setback in a plan. （计划受到的）意外挫折 this has been the first real glitch they've encountered in a three months' tour 在这次为期三个月的旅行中，这还是他们第一次遇到真正的挫折。 Example sentencesExamples The one glitch of the play that I must note was the unexpected thunder at the start of the second half of the performance after intermission. In reality, there are a number of opportunities for glitches, delays and missteps. People who would love and cherish a child and because of some cosmic glitch may never get to do so. There are so many problems, so many glitches, so many ways with which this bill is not good even short-term policy, that we are going to have to figure out a way to address it. The revenue management general manager blamed the problem on internal glitches in the municipality. From the perspective of senior combat officers, these problems are not simply minor glitches in an otherwise adequate plan, but rather symptoms of a deeply flawed blueprint. Instead a mission that's already had its share of hitches and glitches will land somewhere tomorrow. You might encounter schedule changes, unpredictable weather delays or any number of travel glitches. The ten-year term of the contract should supply enough time to work through the inevitable glitches and to obtain real benefits. He soon learns that the complex has been inconvenienced by security glitches. This was a mistake, a glitch or hiccup in Lara's life plans. But it seems to me that we've encountered more glitches of late, as the competitive landscape has heated up. It may seem obvious after shares in a glitch company have recovered, but how do investors differentiate a glitch from a problem that is more systemic within a business? As your ruler Mercury goes retrograde, you could experience an unexpected glitch. Pretesting was very important for detecting a range of potential problems, from logistical glitches to problems with methods or threats to accuracy. The trick is to be prepared for all the unexpected glitches. A slight glitch in the real life, nothing terribly serious, just time consuming. I was the unexpected glitch in everyone's plan. The daily meeting provides you with an opportunity to ask questions and be reassured, and it provides the contractor with an opportunity to explain glitches, delays, and so on. Synonyms problem, difficulty, issue, hitch, complication, upset, disappointment, misfortune, mishap, piece of bad luck, unfortunate development, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune 1.2Astronomy A brief irregularity in the rotation of a pulsar. 〔天文〕（脉冲星）自转突变 Example sentencesExamples Notice that the lines of the flow-volume curve are free of glitches and irregularities. The laboratory demonstration is related to puzzling glitches observed by astronomers in the otherwise smooth, rapid rotation of pulsars. verbɡlɪtʃɡliCH [no object]US informal Suffer a sudden malfunction or irregularity. 〈主美〉突然失灵；不规则地运转 her job involves troubleshooting when systems glitch 她的工作就是在系统失灵时进行检修。 Example sentencesExamples I'm curious how that notoriously unreliable piece of engineering, the human body, will cause glitches in this system. Then she noticed the DNA scanner and the primary security glitching as well, the other things that had been functional during the blast. This market has a unique requirement - it cannot tolerate a disruption in the data flow or the picture you're viewing on the screen will glitch. I bought it in, like, September, and it's glitching beyond belief. One of the screens glitched and both men looked at it. He also would frequently get angry when the programs would glitch and he couldn't write what he wanted to on the screen. The old combat system glitched frequently and simply wasn't capable of handling multiple contacts, limiting its usefulness in a hostile situation. On Saturday I went into work to find our server had glitched at some point between Friday night and Saturday morning, so I spent most of Saturday morning getting it back to the way it was. Now the beauty is that the hologram forms so tightly to your body that if someone touches the hologram it doesn't glitch or anything. Origin 1960s (originally US): of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a sudden surge of current’, hence ‘malfunction, hitch’ in astronautical slang.
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