Pest or The Pest may refer to:
Science and medicine
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Pest (organism)
A pest is any animal or plant harmful to humans or human concerns. The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes. Humans have modified the environ ...
, an animal or plant deemed to be detrimental to humans or human concerns
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Weed, a plant considered undesirable
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Infectious disease
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dise ...
, an illness resulting from an infection
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Plague (disease)
Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium ''Yersinia pestis''. Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. Usually this begins one to seven days after exposure. There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different par ...
, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium ''Yersinia pestis''
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Black Death
The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causi ...
(the Plague), the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history
Film
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''The Pest'' (1914 film), an American short film starring Charlie Chaplin
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''The Pest'' (1917 film), an American film starring Oliver Hardy
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''The Pest'' (1919 film), an American film starring Mabel Normand
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''The Pest'' (1922 film), an American film starring Stan Laurel
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''The Pest'' (1997 film), an American film starring John Leguizamo
Music
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Pest (band), a British music group
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Pest (musician) (born 1975), Norwegian black metal vocalist
Places
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Pest, Hungary
Pest () is the eastern, mostly flat part of Budapest, Hungary, comprising about two-thirds of the city's territory. It is separated from Buda and Óbuda, the western parts of Budapest, by the Danube River. Among its most notable sights are the ...
, the geographic region of Budapest
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Royal University of Pest
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Pest County, an administrative division of Hungary, surrounding Budapest
Other uses
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PESTS
PESTS was an anonymous American activist group formed in 1986 to critique racism, tokenism, and exclusion in the art world. PESTS produced newsletters, posters, and other print material highlighting examples of discrimination in gallery represent ...
, an anonymous activist arts group
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Pest (ice hockey), an ice hockey player specialising in aggravating opponents
See also
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PEST (disambiguation)
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Pestilence (disambiguation)
Pestilence may refer to:
*Infectious disease
*Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
*Pestilence (band), a Dutch death metal group
* Pestilence (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, based on the biblical horseman
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Annoyance
Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. The property of being easily annoyed is called irritability.
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, a mental state characterized by irritation and distraction
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