glitch

Converse of object

• fix: Fixed a small glitch in Windows 2000 button images - Windows XP is NOT affected.
• suffer: This pack was broken up when Westbrook suffered a minor gearbox glitch and fell back to fifth position.
• hit: Unfortunately, at some point in its journey round the world, the initial payment hit a comms glitch.
• notice: I didn't notice any glitches or texture misalignments.
• cause: What nobody knew at the time is that real computer glitches almost caused such a thing to actually happen.
• find: You may find glitches in the website that have not been picked up by us.

Preposition: in

• software: These updates, or fixes, address security problems or glitches in the software.
• system: A glitch in the system causes the fallible automatic foster system to break down.
• process: Those we encountered ranged from losing control over some of the camera functionality to some annoying glitches in the manual movie-making process.

Adjective modifier

• minor: There were minor glitches on Sunday which I'm sure were smoothed over by Monday.
• graphical: Why does my game suffer from framerate slowdown / lags, graphical glitches, crashes?
• noticeable: The frame rate is superb and as with Dead or Alive 3 the game runs without any noticeable glitches.
• occasional: The site is better viewed with Internet Explorer rather than Netscape, which suffers from some occasional visual glitches.
• technical: Bear with me whilst I battle through the technical glitches.
• temporary: Don't worry - this is probably a temporary glitch.

Modifies a noun

• transient: These glitch transients are in general difficult to model.

Noun used with modifier

• computer: A computer glitch can result in delays several miles long.
• software: There is a software glitch Sony UK have admitted they cannot fix!
• power: The most spectacular failure was a power supply glitch, all the magic smoke leaked out, luckily it didn't incite anything else.
• system: It's not a reflection on your credit-worthiness, just a system glitch.