viral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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English virus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English viral
From virus + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: virals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a biological virus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: viral DNA
gloss: Caused by a virus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: viral infection
gloss: Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Spread by word of mouth with minimal intervention, in order to create buzz and interest.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: “Efficient way to disseminate information? I don't think.”
“But it is,” Cayce insists. “The model's viral. ‘Deep niche.’ The venues would be carefully selected—”
Still, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] manages to locate some gentle satire in our culture's love-hate relationship with the internet. At one point, Ralph must attain a certain level of viral popularity, assisted by the BuzzFeed-esque content guru Yesss (Taraji P. Henson), and the movie is savvy about how accidental spikes in fame can turn into cynical algorithm manipulation.
gloss: Circulated rapidly and widely from one user to another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With some minutes to kill, he checks the headlines on his phone. Yet again, something dreadful and new which he doesn't understand is going viral. Today's fad is, you paint a black vertical rectangle on the wall, or on a mirror, or over the top of a picture. And then you chant something.
The end game of that is the GoFundMe link posted beneath a viral tweet so they can pay for their health care. Being an influencer sounds fun until it’s ‘keep producing viral content to literally stay alive.’
gloss: A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes.
pos: noun
examples: 2002, Nik Lever, Flash Mx Games: ActionScript for Artists, Focal Press, page 411,
Using the Flash ActiveX control in this way allows you as a developer to create desktop characters, email virals and screensavers.
2003, Dave Chaffey, Total E-Mail Marketing, Elsevier, page 2,
[M]ost virals are not seen as profiling and data collection exercises, since that would kill the impulse of forwarding to a friend.
2005, Russell Evans, Practical DV Filmmaking, Focal Press, page 289,
Music company virals are becoming commonplace as costs of promos force labels to reconsider how to target more directly to consumers.
Synonyms: virous
Derived words: adenoviral
alphacoronaviral
antiviral
anti-viral
astroviral
betacoronaviral
bovine viral diarrhea
bovine viral diarrhoea
cardioviral
coronaviral
cryptoviral
endogenous viral element
enteroviral
extraviral
gammacoronaviral
go viral
haloviral
herpesviral
interviral
intraviral
lipoviral
megaviral
micro-viral
microviral
multiviral
mycoviral
myoviral
myxoviral
neuroviral
nonviral
oncoviral
panviral
phleboviral
phycoviral
phytoviral
postviral
poxviral
previral
proviral
pseudoviral
retroviral
riboviral
semiviral
subviral
superviral
viral envelope
virality
viral load
virally
viral marketing
viral media
viralness
viral sex
viral vector
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