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# glitch

«glitch» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small fault or problem that stops something working…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a glitch, glitches)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A glitch is a small fault or problem that stops something working properly for a short time, especially in computers, games or machines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#m1)

2) A glitch is a small, unexpected problem in a plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and technology lessons glitches happen in games, apps and websites; a «glitch» in a game may let a character walk through walls. In stories it shows something went a little wrong. Phrases: a technical glitch, a minor glitch, a computer glitch.

### examples

- A glitch in the game made my character fall through the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#x1)
- The show was delayed by a technical glitch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#x2)
- There was a glitch in the school's website, so we couldn't log in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#x3)
- Apart from one glitch, the trip went perfectly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#x4)
- The robot had a glitch and spun in circles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#x5)
- The update fixed the glitch in the app. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#x6)
- The screen froze — just a little glitch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/#x7)

### note

Countable: a glitch, glitches (add -es). Informal, but fine in most writing. Smaller than a «breakdown» or «crash»; a glitch is usually short and minor.

### In the corpora

- ["A glitch" means a fault or bug, usually in a machine or computer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/8/)
- [When Jayden found a glitch that let him win every time, he wondered whether it counted as cheating.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/19/)
- [A glitch is a mistake in a game; using it to win in matches is unfair to others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/32/)
- [Game makers want glitches reported so they can fix them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glitch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glitch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.