Worm definition

To move, proceed, etc. like a worm, in a winding, creeping, or devious manner.

To bring about, make, etc. in a winding, creeping, or devious manner.

To insinuate (oneself) into a situation, conversation, etc.

The definition of a worm is an animal that is slender, soft and often segmented, or an insect larva, or a nasty person, or an unauthorized computer program.

Worm is defined as to creep around, wind through or sneak around in a suspicious way.

Any of various invertebrates, especially an annelid, flatworm, nematode, or nemertean, having a long, flexible, rounded or flattened body, often without obvious appendages.

Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft elongated body.

Any of various other animals, such as a shipworm or a slowworm, having a long slender limbless body.

An insidiously tormenting or devouring force.

A person regarded as pitiable or contemptible.

(medicine) Infestation of the intestines or other parts of the body with parasitic worms; helminthiasis.

(computers) A malicious program that replicates itself until it fills all of the storage space on a drive or network.

Something, such as the thread of a screw or the spiral condenser in a still, that resembles a worm in form or appearance.

The spirally threaded shaft of a worm gear.

To make (one's way) with the sinuous crawling motion of a worm.

To work (one's way or oneself) subtly or gradually; insinuate.

To elicit by artful or devious means. Usually used with out of .

To cure of intestinal worms.

(nautical) To wrap yarn or twine spirally around (rope).

To move in a manner suggestive of a worm.

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

(computers) Write once, read many.

Any of many slender, soft-bodied animals, some segmented, that live by burrowing underground, in water, or as parasites, including the annelids, nemerteans, nematodes, platyhelminths, acanthocephalans, and gordian worms.

An abject, wretched, or contemptible person.

Something that gnaws or distresses one inwardly, suggesting a parasitic worm.

Something thought of as being wormlike because of its spiral shape, etc.

(comput.) An unauthorized, disruptive program, typically spread through communication lines, that creates copies of itself, thereby depleting a disk's or system's available memory.

(med.) Any disease or disorder caused by the presence of parasitic worms in the intestines, etc.

An insect larva, as a caterpillar, grub, or maggot.

Any of several mollusks, as the shipworms.

Any of various wormlike animals, as a rotifer or a blindworm.

A serpent.

A dragon.

To extract (information, secrets, etc.) by insinuation, cajolery, or subtle questioning.

To purge of intestinal worms.

(naut.) To fill the spaces between the strands of (a rope) with lengths of yarn or cord in order to make the surface even.

To rid (tobacco plants) of worms or grubs.

Any of various invertebrates, especially an annelid, flatworm, nematode, or nemertean, having a long, flexible, rounded or flattened body, often without obvious appendages.

Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft elongated body.

Any of various other animals, such as a shipworm or a slowworm, having a long slender limbless body.

(medicine) Infestation of the intestines or other parts of the body with parasitic worms; helminthiasis.

To treat intestinal worms.

Any of various invertebrate animals having a soft, long body that is round or flattened and usually lacks limbs. The term worm is used variously to refer to the segmented worms (or annelids, such as the earthworm), roundworms (or nematodes), flatworms (or platyhelminths), and various other groups.

A worm is a self-replicating, self-contained software program that does not need to be part of another program to propagate. A virus, in contrast, attaches itself to and becomes part of another executable program. Worms as well as viruses typically contain some kind of malicious payload besides the propagation and infection mechanism. On February 3, 2005, Sophos, Inc., a company providing virus detection and other security tools, warned that a version of the Bobax-H worm, hidden within Saddam Hussein photos showing him deceased, invaded computers and carried message warnings such as “Saddam Hussein: Attempted Escape. Shot Dead.” Other versions of the worm had pictures of an allegedly captured Osama Bin Laden. If activated, the payload had the same effect as the Sasser worm. Security experts worldwide have been exploring various ways of stopping worms in their tracks. In April 2005, Professor Shigang Chen and Professor Sanjay Ranka at the University of Florida said they designed an Internet worm early-warning system to detect the initial sign of a malware attack. Professors Chen and Ranka said that their suggested early-warning system monitors a “used” address space and relies on RESET packets to find the scan sources. Their research paper focuses on TCP-focused worms and details a means of avoiding so-called “false positives” by viewing reply traffic from targets instead of monitoring the SYN packets to track half-open connections. Inquirer. Saddam Hussein “Death” Virus on Loose. [Online, February 3, 2005.] Breakthrough Publishing Ltd. Website http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21080; Naraine, R. Researchers Propose Early Warning System for Worms. [Online, April 20, 2005.] Ziff Davis Media Website. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1788294,00.asp.

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Longfellow.

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

(anat.) Any organ or part resembling a worm, as the vermiform process.

A destructive computer program that copies itself over and over until it fills all of the storage space on a computer's hard drive or on a network.