parasite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
biology
business
commerce
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
retail
Etymology: From Middle French parasite, from Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”), from noun use of adjective meaning "feeding beside", from παρά (pará, “beside”) + σῖτος (sîtos, “food”).
Inflected forms:
form: parasites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organism that lives on or in another organism of a different species, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
pos: noun
examples: Lice, fleas, ticks, and mites are widely spread parasites.
...and the mistletoe crept round many of the oaks—that pleasant parasite, whose associations belong rather to the hearth and lighted hall than to its native branches.
It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
gloss: An organism that lives on or in another organism of a different species, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
pos: noun
tags: informal
specifically
examples: He lacks, however, even the basic Dr. Kildare lingo about medical issues. For instance, he regularly misidentifies poppers as amyl nitrate, instead of amyl nitrite — two forms of heart medicine with different affects ^([sic]). Salmonella, a bacteria, is not usually classified as a parasite. And he mistakenly writes, "lenti means slow" in the lentiviruses. ("Lenti" means lens-shaped, biologists classify by structure, not by behavior.)
Select a disease class
Virus: Fastest evolution, Most affected by environment, Bonus to infectivity
Bacteria: Medium evolution, Normally affected by environment, Bonus to drug resistance
Parasite: Slowest evolution, Least affected by environment, Low visibility
Any germs or parasites on the surface of the meat that you could conceivably wash off are gonna die as soon as you cook it, so don't bother washing it.
gloss: A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: A royalist who publicly called for a military intervention to protect the parasite monarchy.
Of all the corrupting effects of wealth there is none worse than this, that it makes the wealthy (and their parasites) think in some way divine, or at least a lovely character of the mind, what is in truth nothing but their power of luxurious living.
gloss: A sycophant or hanger-on.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.
pos: noun
tags: literary
poetic
examples: Her golden tresses shade / The bosom's stainless pride, / Curling like tendrils of the parasite / Around a marble column.
gloss: A retainer or companion of an ancient Celtic warrior, who praised him in song or poetry at gatherings; a bard.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A component of a composite aircraft which is carried aloft and air-launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support the primary mission of the carrier; a parasite aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: […] parasiting and aerial refueling as range-extension measures. Second, parasiting would be exorbitantly expensive, because each parasite bomber would need its own carrier. Two bombers could be serviced by a single tanker, however,[…]
gloss: An isolated (FSDU) (freestanding display unit )
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: parasite display
parasite stand
parasite unit
Antonyms: commensal
mutualist
sometimes symbiote
Related words: sito-
facultative
obligate
symbiont
Derived words: alloparasite
antiparasite
brood parasite
coproparasite
ecoparasite
ectoparasite
endoparasite
enteroparasite
entomoparasite
epiparasite
exoparasite
haemoparasite
hemiparasite
hemoparasite
holoparasite
hyperparasite
kleptoparasite
macroparasite
mesoparasite
microparasite
multiparasite
mycoparasite
neuroparasite
nonparasite
nosoparasite
parasital
parasitary
parasitation
parasite aircraft
parasitelike
parasitemia
parasitic
parasitical
parasiticide
parasitisation
parasitise
parasitism
parasitization
parasitize
parasitocenosis
parasitoid
parasitological
parasitology
parasitome
parasitophobia
parasitophorous
parasitosis
phytoparasite
pseudoparasite
semiparasite
superparasite
welfare parasite
wound parasite
xenoparasite
zooparasite
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: parasiet
lang: Albanian
word: parazit
lang: Amharic
word: ጥገኛ ነፍሳት
roman: ṭəgäña näfsat
lang: Arabic
word: طُفِيل
roman: ṭufīl
lang: Armenian
word: մակաբույծ
roman: makabuyc
lang: Asturian
word: parásitu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: parazit
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tüfeyli
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tüfeyl
lang: Belarusian
word: паразі́т
roman: parazít
lang: Belarusian
word: паразы́т
roman: parazýt
lang: Bengali
word: পরজীবী
roman: porjibi
lang: Bulgarian
word: парази́т
roman: parazít
lang: Burmese
word: ကပ်ပါး
roman: kappa:
lang: Catalan
word: paràsit
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 寄生物
roman: jìshēngwù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 寄生蟲 /寄生虫
roman: jìshēngchóng
lang: Czech
word: cizopasník
lang: Czech
word: parazit
lang: Danish
word: parasit
lang: Dutch
word: parasiet
lang: Esperanto
word: parazito
lang: Estonian
word: parasiit
lang: Finnish
word: loinen
lang: French
word: parasite
lang: Friulian
word: parasit
lang: Galician
word: parásito
lang: Georgian
word: პარაზიტი
roman: ṗaraziṭi
lang: German
word: Schmarotzer
lang: German
word: Parasit
lang: Greek
word: παράσιτο
roman: parásito
lang: Hebrew
word: טַפִּיל
roman: tapil
lang: Hebrew
word: פָּרָזִיט
roman: parazít
lang: Hindi
word: परजीवी
roman: parjīvī
lang: Hungarian
word: élősködő
lang: Hungarian
word: parazita
lang: Icelandic
word: sníkill
lang: Icelandic
word: sníkjudýr
lang: Ido
word: parazito
lang: Indonesian
word: parasit
lang: Irish
word: seadán
lang: Italian
word: parassita
lang: Japanese
word: 寄生虫
roman: kiseichū
lang: Japanese
word: 寄生物
roman: kiseibutsu
lang: Kazakh
word: паразит
roman: parazit
lang: Khmer
word: បរាសិត
roman: paʼraasət
lang: Khmer
word: បញ្ញើក្អែក
roman: baññaə kʼaek
lang: Korean
word: 기생충
roman: gisaengchung
lang: Korean
word: 기생물
roman: gisaengmul
lang: Korean
word: 기생식물
roman: gisaengsingmul
lang: Central Kurdish
word: چڵکاوخۆر
roman: çillkawxor
lang: Kyrgyz
word: паразит
roman: parazit
lang: Latin
word: parasītus
lang: Latvian
word: parazīts
lang: Lithuanian
word: parazitas
lang: Macedonian
word: паразит
roman: parazit
lang: Malay
word: parasit
lang: Māori
word: pirinoa
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: parasitt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: parasitt
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اَنْگَل
roman: angal
lang: Piedmontese
word: parassit
lang: Polish
word: pasożyt
lang: Portuguese
word: parasita
lang: Portuguese
word: verme
lang: Romanian
word: parazit
lang: Russian
word: парази́т
roman: parazít
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: на́метнӣк
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пара̀зӣт
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: námetnīk
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: paràzīt
lang: Slovak
word: parazit
lang: Slovene
word: parazit
lang: Spanish
word: parásito
lang: Swahili
word: kimelea
lang: Swedish
word: parasit
lang: Tagalog
word: sasandig
lang: Tagalog
word: parasito
lang: Tajik
word: паразит
roman: parazit
lang: Tajik
word: ангал
roman: angal
lang: Tamil
word: ஒட்டுண்ணி
roman: oṭṭuṇṇi
lang: Telugu
word: పరాన్నజీవి
roman: parānnajīvi
lang: Thai
word: ปรสิต
roman: bpà-rá-sìt
lang: Turkish
word: parazit
lang: Turkish
word: asalak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طفیل
roman: tufeyl
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طفیلی
roman: tufeyli
lang: Turkmen
word: parazit
lang: Ukrainian
word: парази́т
roman: parazýt
lang: Urdu
word: طُفَیلی
roman: tufailī
lang: Urdu
word: اَمَر بیل
roman: amar bel
lang: Urdu
word: آکاش بیل
roman: ākāś bel
lang: Uzbek
word: parazit
lang: Vietnamese
word: kí sinh trùng
lang: Vietnamese
word: vật ký sinh
lang: Volapük
word: parasit
lang: Welsh
word: arfilyn
lang: Welsh
word: parasit