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Worm

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

WORM; The Worm; The Worm (disambiguation); Worm (movie); Worm (film)

·noun Any annelid.

II. Worm ·noun An insect larva.

III. Worm ·noun The thread of a screw.

IV. Worm ·noun A being debased and despised.

V. Worm ·vi To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.

VI. Worm ·noun ·same·as Vermes.

VII. Worm ·noun Any helminth; an Entozoon.

VIII. Worm ·noun Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm.

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

X. Worm ·vt To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means;

- often followed by out.

XI. Worm ·vt To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. ·see Worm, ·noun 5 (b).

XII. Worm ·noun A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

XIII. Worm ·noun A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.

XIV. Worm ·noun The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. ·see ·Illust. of Still.

XV. Worm ·noun A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. ·see Lytta.

XVI. Worm ·noun 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.

XVII. Worm ·noun 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.

XVIII. Worm ·noun 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.

XIX. Worm ·noun 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.

worm

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WORM; The Worm; The Worm (disambiguation); Worm (movie); Worm (film)

<networking, security> (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 the Great Worm. Compare Trojan horse. [Jargon File] (1996-09-17)

WORM

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WORM; The Worm; The Worm (disambiguation); Worm (movie); Worm (film)

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Worm

Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always).

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Examples of use of worm

1. Abbruscato sells worm castings, red wigglers, and a fertilizer he calls "worm tea," made from worm castings.

2. But the worm in the Voysey bud is first cousin to the worm in Enron‘s.

3. What was causing the damage was unclear, although experts pointed to a new worm called worm–rbot.cbq.

4. The worm can then infect other versions of Windows.

5. So the worm continues to take on different forms." McAfee, the computer security company, rated the worm a "high risk" threat.