What does GERM mean?
Definitions for GERM
dʒɜrmgerm
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word GERM.
Princeton's WordNet
source, seed, germnoun
anything that provides inspiration for later work
germnoun
a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
microbe, bug, germnoun
a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
GCIDE
Germnoun
A microorganism, especially a disease-causing bacterium or virus; -- used informally, as, the don't eat food that falls on the floor, it may have germs on it.
Wiktionary
germnoun
The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
germnoun
A pathogenic microorganism.
germnoun
An idea that forms the basis of some project.
germnoun
The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
germverb
To germinate
germverb
to grow, as if parasitic
Germnoun
a German person.
Etymology: From germe, from germen.
Webster Dictionary
Germnoun
that which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears
Germnoun
that from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty
Germverb
to germinate
Etymology: [F. germe, fr. L. germen, germinis, sprout, but, germ. Cf. Germen, Germane.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Germ
jėrm, n. a rudimentary form of a living thing, whether a plant or animal: (bot.) the seed-bud of a plant: a shoot: that from which anything springs, the origin: a first principle.—v.i. to put forth buds, sprout.—n. Germ′icide, that which destroys germs. [Fr. germe—L. germen, a bud.]
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
GERM
A bit of animal life living in water. GERMAN More animal life, living on beer.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
GERM
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Germ is ranked #111988 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Germ surname appeared 157 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Germ.
96.8% or 152 total occurrences were White.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of GERM in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of GERM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of GERM in a Sentence
It is important for people to understand that this study is specifically concerned with one particular germ that is increasingly implicated in hospital-acquired infections, this study really only applies to the specific environment of hospitals, and I'm confident that alcohol-based disinfectants will continue to remain highly effective in general use.
if you do not live life like a germ you wont learn the ways of the yerm. -germterm out
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
For ethical reasons, we would not want to transplant the germ line from the donor, because that would mean that, were the recipient to father a child, that actually the genetic background of the child would be from the donor and not from the recipient, but in a second step, the patient will receive testicle prostheses.
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- جرثومةArabic
- germenCatalan, Valencian
- KeimGerman
- μικρόβιοGreek
- germenSpanish
- itiöFinnish
- germeFrench
- xermeGalician
- csíraHungarian
- germe, microboItalian
- 胚芽, 細菌, 芽生えJapanese
- germine cohaerenteLatin
- kitakitaMāori
- kiemDutch
- mikrob, zarazek, zalążek, bakcylPolish
- germePortuguese
- зачаток, зародыш, микробRussian
- klíčekSlovak
- frö, mikrobSwedish
- เชื้อโรคThai
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