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Worm
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(worms, worming, wormed) 1. A worm is a small animal with a long thin body, no bones and no legs. N-COUNT 2. If animals or people have worms, worms are living in their intestines. N-PLURAL 3. If you worm an animal, you give it medicine in order to kill the worms that are living in its intestines. I worm all my birds in early spring... All adult dogs are routinely wormed at least every six months. VERB: V n, be V-ed 4. If you say that someone is worming their way to success, or is worming their way into someone else’s affection, you disapprove of the way that they are gradually making someone trust them or like them, often in order to deceive them or gain some advantage. She never misses a chance to worm her way into the public’s hearts... VERB: V way prep/adv c darkgreen]disapproval 5. A worm is a computer program that contains a virus which duplicates itself many times in a network. (COMPUTING) N-COUNT 6. If you say that someone is opening a can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something which is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and which might be better left alone. You’ve opened up a whole new can of worms here I think. We could have a whole debate on student loans and grants... PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wyrm serpent, ~; akin to Old High German wurm serpent, ~, Latin vermis ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a. earth~; broadly an annelid ~ b. any of numerous relatively small elongated usually naked and soft-bodied animals (as a grub, pin~, tape~, ship~, or slow~) 2. a. a human being who is an object of contempt, loathing, or pity ; wretch b. something that torments or devours from within 3. archaic snake, serpent 4. helminthiasis — usually used in plural 5. something (as a mechanical device) spiral or vermiculate in form or appearance: as a. the thread of a screw b. a short revolving screw whose threads gear with the teeth of a ~ wheel or a rack c. Archimedes' screw; also a conveyor working on the principle of such a screw 6. a usually small self-contained and self-replicating computer program that invades computers on a network and usually performs a destructive action • ~like adjective II. verb Date: 1610 intransitive verb to move or proceed sinuously or insidiously transitive verb 1. a. to proceed or make (one's way) insidiously or deviously ~ their way into positions of power — Bill Franzen b. to insinuate or introduce (oneself) by devious or subtle means c. to cause to move or proceed in or as if in the manner of a ~ 2. to wind rope or yarn spirally round and between the strands of (a cable or rope) before serving 3. to obtain or extract by artful or insidious questioning or by pleading, asking, or persuading — usually used with out of finally ~ed the truth out of him 4. to treat (an animal) with a drug to destroy or expel parasitic ~s ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 any of various types of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long slender bodies and no limbs, esp. segmented in rings or parasitic in the intestines or tissues. 2 the long slender larva of an insect, esp. in fruit or wood. 3 (in pl.) intestinal or other internal parasites. 4 a blindworm or slow-worm. 5 a maggot supposed to eat dead bodies in the grave. 6 an insignificant or contemptible person. 7 a the spiral part of a screw. b a short screw working in a worm-gear. 8 the spiral pipe of a still in which the vapour is cooled and condensed. 9 the ligament under a dog's tongue. --v. 1 intr. & tr. (often refl.) move with a crawling motion (wormed through the bushes; wormed our way through the bushes). 2 intr. & refl. (foll. by into) insinuate oneself into a person's favour, confidence, etc. 3 tr. (foll. by out) obtain (a secret etc.) by cunning persistence (managed to worm the truth out of them). 4 tr. cut the worm of (a dog's tongue). 5 tr. rid (a plant or dog etc.) of worms. 6 tr. Naut. make (a rope etc.) smooth by winding thread between the strands. Phrases and idioms food for worms a dead person. worm-cast a convoluted mass of earth left on the surface by a burrowing earthworm. worm-fishing fishing with worms for bait. worm-gear an arrangement of a toothed wheel worked by a revolving spiral. worm-hole a hole left by the passage of a worm. worm-seed 1 seed used to expel intestinal worms. 2 a plant e.g. santonica bearing this seed. worm's-eye view a view as seen from below or from a humble position. worm-wheel the wheel of a worm-gear. a (or even a) worm will turn the meekest will resist or retaliate if pushed too far. Derivatives wormer n. wormlike adj. Etymology: OE wyrm f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) червяк; шнек 2) змеевик 3) архимедов винт 4) винтовой конвейер - aspiration worm - concave worm - cooling worm - double-enveloping worm - double-thread worm - extrusion worm - grain worm - grinding worm - hasher worm - hourglass worm - involute worm - irreversible worm - kneading worm - left-hand worm - multithreaded worm - multithread worm - needle cam worm - packing worm - right-hand worm - single-threaded worm - single-thread worm - stoning worm - throated worm ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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1) змеевик 2) тренцовать 3) червь 4) червяк 5) червяковый 6) червячный зубчатый 7) шнек toroidal worm gearing — тороидная зубчатая передача - aspiration worm - hour-glass worm - irreversible worm - multithreaded worm - one-thread worm - two-thread worm - worm gear - worm gearing - worm press - worm shaft - worm wheel ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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(Write Once Read Many) Технология хранения информации, обеспечивающая одноразовую запись и многократное считывание. ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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червь; червеобразное животное; личинка; гусеница – ailanthus worm – annelid worms – arrow worm – barber's pole worm – bladder worm – blind worm – bootlace worms – brain worm – brine worm – bristle worms – brown stomach worm – clam worm – cotton-boll worm – currant measuring worm – cut worm – dragon worm – eddy worms – faggot worms – flat worms – giant kidney worm – gordian worm – grugru worm – Guinea worm – gullet worms – horsehair worms – lesser apple worm – lug worm – maw worm – measuring worms – medina worm – minute stomach worm – nematode worms – palisade worms – palolo worm – polychaete worms – pot worms – proboscis worms – seat worm – segmented worms – sewage worm – sipunculoid worms – slow worm – sludge worm – spiny headed worms – thorny-headed worms – timber worm – tongue worms – turbellarian worms – unstyled ribbon worms ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. зоол. червь (Lumbricus) 2. глист, гельминт 3. гусеница, личинка 4. жалкое существо, ничтожный человек, презренная личность he is a worm (of a man)! —- какое ничтожество! 5. тех. червяк, червячный винт; шнек 6. тех. тех. змеевик 7. уст. змея; змей; дракон Id: to be food (meat) for worms —- быть мертвым Id: the worm of conscience —- угрызения совести Id: I am a worm today —- я сегодня не в своей тарелке; мне сегодня не по себе Id: to have a worm in one's tongue —- быть сварливым Id: even a worm will turn —- самого кроткого человека можно вывести из себя Id: the worm has turned! —- у него наконец лопнуло терпение! Id: tread on a worm and it will turn —- посл. всякому терпению приходит конец 8. ползти; пробираться ползком; вползать he wormed his way through the bushes —- он прополз между кустами 9. (into) проникать, пробираться; втираться; примазываться to worm oneself into smb.'s confidence —- вкрасться в доверие к кому-л. to worm oneself (one's way) into a movement —- примазаться к движению to worm oneself into a conversation —- влезть в разговор 10. очищать от червей (клумбу и т. п.) 11. гнать глистов 12. копать червей 13. мор. тренцевать (трос) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) червяк, червь; глист 2) низкий человек, презренная личность; a poor worm like him - такое жалкое существо, как он 3) tech. червяк, шнек, червячный винт I am a worm today - мне сегодня не по себе to have a worm in ones tongue - ворчать, быть сварливым even a worm will turn - всякому терпению приходит конец - the worm of conscience 2. v. 1) ползти, пробираться ползком; продираться (through) 2) вползать; проникать; to worm oneself into smb. s confidence - вкрасться в доверие к кому-л. 3) выпытать, разузнать; to worm a secret out of smb. - выведать у кого-л. тайну 4) гнать глистов ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 a long thin creature with no bones and no legs that lives in soil 2 someone who you do not like or respect 3 have worms to have parasites (=small creature that eats your food or your blood) in your body 4 the worm turns literary used to say that someone who is normally quiet and obedient will change if they really need to (- see also can of worms can2 (4)) ~2 v 1 worm your way into/through etc to move through a small place or a crowd slowly, carefully, or with difficulty (They wormed their way through the crowd.) 2 worm your way into sb's affections/heart/confidence etc to gradually make someone love or trust you, especially by being dishonest 3 worm sth out of sb to get information from someone who does not want to give it 4 worm your way out of (doing) sth to avoid doing something that you have been asked to do by making an excuse that is dishonest but clever (Steve has managed to worm his way out of going to the meeting.) 5 to give an animal medicine in order to remove parasites (1) that live inside them ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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U.S. gov. abbr. Worldwide Operational Record Management electron. abbr. Write Once, Read Many funny abbr. Wisely Organized Replacing Machine hardw. abbr. Write Once Read Many gen. comp. abbr. Write Once, Read Many times ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- O.E. wurm, variant of wyrm "serpent, dragon," also "earthworm," from P.Gmc. *wurmiz, from PIE *wrmi-/*wrmo-, possibly from *wer- "turn." The ancient category of these was much more extensive than the modern, scientific, one and included serpents, scorpions, maggots, and the supposed causes of certain diseases. In Eng., the -o- was a scribal substitution to avoid confusion of -u- and -r- (as also in some, come, monk etc.). As an insult meaning "abject, miserable person" it dates from O.E. The verb is from 1610, in figurative senses suggesting patient, sinuous progress. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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