Definitions for worm
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wormnoun

   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. worm, louse, insect, dirt ballnoun

   a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

3. wormnoun

   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. wormverb

   screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

5. writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twistverb

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wormnoun

   A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum.

2. wormnoun

   A contemptible or devious being.

   Don't try to run away, you little worm!

3. wormnoun

   A self-replicating program that propagates widely through a network.

4. wormnoun

   A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.

5. wormnoun

   Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

6. wormnoun

   A dragon or mythological serpent.

7. wormnoun

   An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.

   The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! uE000104416uE001 Richard III, William Shakespeare

8. wormverb

   To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

   We wormed our way through the underbrush.

9. wormverb

   To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

   He wormed his way into the organization

10. wormverb

    To obtain information from someone through artful or devious means (usually used with out of)

11. wormverb

    To fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serving.

    Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

12. wormverb

    To deworm an animal.

13. wormverb

    To move with one's body dragging the ground.

14. wormverb

    To work one's way by artful or devious means.

15. Etymology: From worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from wyrm ‘snake, worm’, from wurmiz, from wr̥mis (compare Latin vermis '‘worm’, varmas ‘insect, midge’, rrime ‘rainworm’, Ancient Greek ῥόμος ‘woodworm’), possibly from ‘to turn’. First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WORMnoun

   Etymology: wyrm , Saxon; worm, Dutch; vermis, Lat.

   1. A small harmless serpent that lives in the earth.

   Both the princes
   Thy broken faith hath made a prey to worms. William Shakespeare.

   Help me into some house,
   Or I shall faint; —— a plague o’ both your houses!
   They have made worms meat of me. William Shakespeare.

   Though worms devour me, though I turn to mold,
   Yet in my flesh I shall his face behold:
   I from my marble monument shall rise
   Again intire, and see him with these eyes. George Sandys, Par.

   At once came forth whatever creeps the ground,
   Insect or worm. John Milton.

   2. A poisonous serpent.

   The mortal worm. William Shakespeare.

   3. Animal bred in the body.

   Physicians observe these worms engendered within the body of man. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

   4. The animal that spins silk.

   Thou owest the worm no silk, the sheep no wool. William Shakespeare.

   5. Grubs that gnaw wood and furniture.

   ’Tis no awkward claim,
   Pick’d from the worm-holes of long vanish’d days,
   Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak’d. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   6. Something tormenting.

   The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. William Shakespeare.

   The chains of darkness, and th’ undying worm. John Milton.

   7. Any thing vermiculated, or turned round; any thing spiral.

   The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw-plates, are called worms. The length of a worm begins at the one end of the spindle, and ends at the other; the breadth of the worm is contained between any two grooves on the spindle; the depth of the worm is cut into the diameter of the spindle, viz. the depth between the outside of the worm, and the bottom of the groove. Joseph Moxon.

2. To Wormverb

   1. To drive by slow and secret means.

   They find themselves wormed out of all power, by a new spawn of independents, sprung from your own bowels. Jonathan Swift.

   2. To deprive a dog of something, nobody knows what, under his tongue, which is said to prevent him, nobody knows why, from running mad.

   Every one that keepeth a dog, should have him wormed. John Mortimer.

3. To Wormverb

   To work slowly, secretly, and gradually.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   When debates and fretting jealousy,
   Did worm and work within you more and more,
   Your colour faded. George Herbert.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. worm

   A worm is an elongated, soft-bodied invertebrate animal, typically without limbs, belonging to the Annelida, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, or Chaetognatha phyla. Some are parasites while others are free-living, and they can be found in various environments including soil, marine, or freshwater habitats. In computer context, a worm is a standalone malware program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wormnoun

   a creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like

2. Wormnoun

   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. Wormnoun

   any helminth; an entozoon

4. Wormnoun

   any annelid

5. Wormnoun

   an insect larva

6. Wormnoun

   same as Vermes

7. Wormnoun

   an internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse

8. Wormnoun

   a being debased and despised

9. Wormnoun

   anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm

10. Wormnoun

    the thread of a screw

11. Wormnoun

    a spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms

12. Wormnoun

    a certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta

13. Wormnoun

    the condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still

14. Wormnoun

    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. Wormverb

    to work slowly, gradually, and secretly

16. Wormverb

    to effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out

17. Wormverb

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

18. Wormnoun

    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

19. Wormnoun

    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

20. Etymology: [OE. worm, wurm, AS. wyrm; akin to D. worm, OS. & G. wurm, Icel. ormr, Sw. & Dan. orm, Goth. warms, L. vermis, Gr. a wood worm. Cf. Vermicelli, Vermilion, Vermin.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Worm

   The term worm refers to an obsolete taxon used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, and stems from the Old English word wyrm. Currently it is used to describe many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no legs. Most animals called "worms" are invertebrates, but the term is also used for the amphibian caecilians and the slow worm Anguis, a legless burrowing lizard. Invertebrate animals commonly called "worms" include annelids, nematodes, platyhelminthes, marine polychaete worms, marine nemertean worms, marine Chaetognatha, priapulid worms, and insect larvae such as caterpillars, grubs, and maggots. Historical English-speaking cultures have used the terms worm, Wurm, or wyrm to describe carnivorous reptiles, and the related mythical beasts dragons. The term worm can also be used as an insult or pejorative term used towards people to describe a cowardly or weak individual or individual seen as pitiable. Worms vary in size from microscopic to over 1 metre in length for marine polychaete worms, 6.7 metres for the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus, and 55 metres for the marine nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Worm

   wurm, n. a term destitute of scientific precision, but often applied to any one of the members of numerous classes of invertebrate animals which are more or less earthworm-like in appearance, the earthworm, a grub, a maggot: anything spiral: the thread of a screw: the lytta or vermiform cartilage of a dog's tongue: the instrument used to withdraw the charge of a gun: a spiral pipe surrounded by cold water into which steam or vapours pass for condensation in distilling: anything that corrupts, gnaws, or torments: remorse: a debased being, a groveller: (pl.) any intestinal disease arising from the presence of parasitic worms.—v.i. to move like a worm, to squirm: to work slowly or secretly.—v.t. to effect by slow and secret means: to elicit by underhand means: to remove the lytta or vermiform cartilage of a dog's tongue.—n. Worm′-cast, the earth voided by the earthworm.—adjs. Worm′-eat′en, eaten by worms: old: worn-out; Worm′-eat′ing, living habitually on worms; Wormed, bored by worms: injured by worms.—ns. Worm′-fence, a zigzag fence formed of stakes; Worm′-fē′ver, a feverish condition in children ascribed to intestinal worms; Worm′-gear, a gear-wheel having teeth shaped so as to mesh with a worm or shaft on which a spiral is turned, an endless screw; Worm′-gear′ing; Worm′-grass, pink-root: a kind of stonecrop; Worm′-hole, the hole made by a worm.—adj. Worm′-holed, perforated by worm-holes.—ns. Worm′-pow′der, a vermifuge; Worm′-seed, santonica: the treacle mustard; Worm′-wheel, a wheel gearing with an endless screw or worm, receiving or imparting motion.—adj. Wor′my, like a worm: grovelling: containing a worm: abounding with worms: gloomy, dismal, like the grave. [A.S. wyrm, dragon, snake, creeping animal; cog. with Goth. waurms, a serpent, Ice. ormr, Ger. wurm; also with L. vermis.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. worm

   An iron tool shaped like a double cork-screw on the end of a long staff, for withdrawing charges, ignited remains of cartridges, &c., from fire-arms. Called also a wad-hook in artillery. (See also TEREDO NAVALIS.)--To worm. The act of passing a rope spirally between the lays of a cable; a smaller rope is wormed with spun-yarn. Worming is generally resorted to as a preparative for serving. (See LINK WORMING.)

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. worm

   See Implements.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wormnoun

   Another word for a penis or a two-faced snitch that will sell on his homies for money and fame. "You slapped her ass that's alarmin' cause she want my worm like Carmen" -- Ice Cube (Hello)

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1. WORM

   What does WORM stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the WORM acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WORM

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Worm is ranked #23978 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Worm surname appeared 1,052 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Worm.
   
   95.8% or 1,008 total occurrences were White.
   2% or 22 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.8% or 9 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 6 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Invertebrate
   • Malevolent Program
   • Move
   • Unpleasant Person

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'worm' in Nouns Frequency: #2637

How to pronounce worm?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say worm in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of worm in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of worm in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of worm in a Sentence

1. Xu Xing:

   the early bird gets the worm

2. Bill Vaughan:

   A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

3. First Lady:

   I still get a check-up every three months or so, brain scans and things like that, but so far the results have been good, i still hope to outlive the last Guinea worm.

4. Emiliano Zapata:

   The one who wants to be an eagle that flies, who wants to be a worm that crawls but does not scream when someone step on it "

5. KIZZA RONALD:

   Size doesn't matter whether small or big thats why a bird can be far and see a worm with its small eyes which u can't see from that height with your bigger eyes

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=worm
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worm
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=worm
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worm
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=worm
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=worm
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Worm
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=worm
10. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html