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Definition of 'worm'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) worm
any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the roundworms, platyhelminths, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, horsehair worms, and annelids.

2.  worm
(loosely) any of numerous small creeping animals with more or less slender, elongated bodies, and without limbs or with very short ones.

3.  worm
something resembling or suggesting a worm in appearance, movement, etc.

4.  worm
a groveling, abject, or contemptible person.

5.  worm
the thread of a screw.

6.  worm
a rotating cylinder or shaft, cut with one or more helical threads, that engages with and drives a worm gear.

7.  worm
something that penetrates, injures, or consumes slowly or insidiously.

8.  worm
worms, (used with a sing. v.) any disease or disorder arising from the presence of parasitic worms in the intestines or other tissues; helminthiasis.

9.  worm
the lytta of a dog or other carnivorous animal.

10.  worm
computer code planted illegally in a software program so as to destroy data in any system that downloads the program, as by reformatting the hard disk.

11. (v.i.) worm
to move or act like a worm; creep, crawl, or advance slowly, stealthily, or insidiously.

12. (v.t.) worm
to cause to move in a devious or stealthy manner:
a thief worming his hand into a coat pocket.

13.  worm
to get by persistent, insidious efforts (usu. fol. by out or from):
to worm a secret out of someone.

14.  worm
to insinuate (oneself or one's way) into another's favor, confidence, etc.:
He wormed his way into the king's favor.

15.  worm
to free from worms:
to worm puppies.

16.  worm
Naut. to wind yarn or the like spirally round (a rope) so as to fill the spaces between the strands and render the surface smooth.

17. (n.) WORM
write once, read many (times): a technology that allows data to be written onto an optical disc only once.

Definition of 'worm'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) worm
any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

2. (noun) worm, louse, insect, dirt ball
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

3. (noun) worm
a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
"worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"

4. (verb) worm
screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

5. (verb) writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist
to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
"The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"

Definition of 'worm'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) worm
an earthworm
***Worms come out in the rain.

2. worm
a short thin creature that will become an insect
a little green worm, eating the leaf

Definition of 'worm'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) worm
a creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like

2. (noun) worm
any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm

3. (noun) worm
any helminth; an entozoon

4. (noun) worm
any annelid

5. (noun) worm
an insect larva

6. (noun) worm
same as Vermes

7. (noun) worm
an internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse

8. (noun) worm
a being debased and despised

9. (noun) worm
anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm

10. (noun) worm
the thread of a screw

11. (noun) worm
a spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms

12. (noun) worm
a certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta

13. (noun) worm
the condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still

14. (noun) worm
a short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below

15. (noun) worm
to cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness

16. (noun) worm
to wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope

17. (verb) worm
to work slowly, gradually, and secretly

18. (verb) worm
to effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out

19. (verb) worm
to clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b)

Definitions of 'worm'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. worm
[from tapeworm in John Brunner's novel The Shockwave Rider, via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's Great Worm of 1988, a ‘benign’ one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U.S. See also cracker, RTM, Trojan horse, ice.

Translation of 'worm'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a kind of small creeping animal with a ringed body and no backbone; an earth-worm.
Afrikaans: wurm	Arabic: دودَه	Bulgarian: червей
Brazilian: verme	Czech: červ	German: der Wurm
Danish: orm; -orm	Greek: σκουλήκι	Spanish: gusano, lombriz
Estonian: (vihma)uss	Farsi: کرم	Finnish: mato
French: ver (de terre)	Hebrew: תוֹלַעַת	Hindi: कृमि
Croatian: crv	Hungarian: féreg	Indonesian: cacing
Icelandic: ormur	Italian: verme	Japanese: 虫
Korean: 연충(지렁이, 구더기, 촌충 등)	Lithuanian: sliekas	Latvian: tārps; kāpurs; slieka
Malay: cacing	Dutch: worm	Norwegian: mark
Polish: dżdżownica	Persian: کرم	Pashto: چينجى، پيچ، متواضع سړى: چ
Portuguese: verme	Romanian: vierme	Russian: червяк
Slovak: červík	Slovenian: črv	Serbian: crv
Swedish: mask	Thai: หนอน	Turkish: solucan, kurt
Taiwanese: 蠕蟲	Ukrainian: черв'як, хробак	Urdu: کیڑا
Vietnamese: con giun	Chinese: 蠕虫
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