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Worm, WORM or Worms, may also refer to: Contents Worms, Germany , a city in Germany Computing Computer worm , a self-propagating piece of malicious software Worms (series) , a computer game from Team 17 Write Once Read Many , or WORM, a characteristic of data storage media People Dennis Rodman , as his nickname Alfred Worm (1945–2007), Austrian investigative journalist Ole Worm (1588–1655), Danish physician Other Worm (marketing) , a market-research technique The NASA logo (worm) which has been retired from official use since 1992 Worm (comics) , a Marvel Comics character "Worm", a song by the band Ministry Worm, a science fiction novel by John Brosnan Worm, in engineering, a screw-like object that engages with a worm drive Ringworm , a fungal disease of the skin WORM (AM), a radio station (1010 AM) licensed to Savannah, Tennessee , United States WORM-FM , a radio station (101.7 FM) licensed to Savannah, Tennessee WORM, a derogatory remark for White Old Republican Males Worms - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki (

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A worm is an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal. ^ Millipedes are worm-like, cylindrical animals with many body segments.

ENY-221/IG093: Pillbugs, Sowbugs, Centipedes, Millipedes and Earwigs 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC edis.ifas.ufl.edu [Source type: Academic] Worm, WORM or Worms, may also refer to: Contents Worms, Germany , a city in Germany Computing Computer worm , a self-propagating piece of malicious software Worms (series) , a computer game from Team 17 Write Once Read Many , or WORM, a characteristic of data storage media People Dennis Rodman , as his nickname Alfred Worm (1945–2007), Austrian investigative journalist Ole Worm (1588–1655), Danish physician Other Worm (marketing) , a market-research technique The NASA logo (worm) which has been retired from official use since 1992 Worm (comics) , a Marvel Comics character "Worm", a song by the band Ministry Worm, a science fiction novel by John Brosnan Worm, in engineering, a screw-like object that engages with a worm drive Ringworm , a fungal disease of the skin WORM (AM), a radio station

 (1010 AM) licensed to Savannah, Tennessee , United States WORM-FM , a radio station (101.7 FM) licensed to Savannah, Tennessee WORM, a derogatory remark for White Old Republican Males Aris Thessaloniki , a Greek sport club Lester "Worm" Murphy , a character played by Edward Norton in the 1998 movie Rounders Sabrina Worm Nadine, an book writen by Monica Ruffers.

See also Wyrm, an alternative name for the mythological European dragon This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Up to date as of January 14, 2010 From Wikitravel Worms is a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany . The entrance to Worms Understand Being the oldest city in the whole of Germany, Worms has played a key role in German history. Worm's current incarnation was founded by Charlemagne, and the city's bishopric dates back to the fourth century. The town is famous for the Diet of Worms, to which Luther was summoned in 1521 to Emperor Charles V. He refused to recant his beliefs, saying the famous words "Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen." As a result, he was banned to the outer reaches of the empire. . You can still see many vestiges of the old city walls, particularly the Torturmplatz and the Karolingerstrasse.

^ Tell you what, get out a pair of some old shoes (I’m sure you have many), deck them up with a little bow or satin or something and set them on the rack. Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] ^ Ah, I see you weren’t around when they were shifting that particular bar.’ Kamber felt old, haggard and unclean. Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] The Dom of St. Peter and St Paul, which was completed in 1325 survived the destruction of World War II. The city also has a rich Jewish history. Tourist Information Center, Am Neumarkt 14, +49 6241 2-50-45. Pick up a map of the city's main attractions. Get in Trains [1] from Bingen, Bensheim, Mainz , Mannheim , or Frankfurt .

There is a ticket office in the main station of Worms (closed on Saturday afternoon, Sundays and holidays). Get around Walking is the best way to enjoy the historical center. There is also a bus system running day and night, obtain tickets from the drivers. Romanesque cathedral, one of Germany's three "imperial cathedrals" on the Rhine (together with those in Mainz and Speyer ), dating back to 600 AD. Listen the mythical story of Worms in Nibelungen museum Jewish Bath, Jewish Cemetery ("Heiliger Sand" - Holy Sand) River Banks with restaurants The monument to Martin Luther and other church reformers. Luther Monument City Walls The Park and the manor-house in Herrnsheim. The park was created by Friedrich Ludwig Sckell, who designed the "Englischer Garten" in Munich as well. In the park viewing at the manor-house Cross the Rhine bridge for a walk through the green eastern banks. You can bathe in the Rhine, too! . The water quality is very good, now, there are even salmon back!

Rôtisserie Dubs, Kirchstraße 6, Worms-Rheindürkheim, Ph: 011 49 06242 2023. One of the big names in Worms' restaurant scene, their staff does an impressively creative job on regional cuisines. ^ Coming back to the Sholay analogy, if you remember, Ramgarh continued to live its life even before Jai-Viru came on the scene. Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] ^ The experience itself was not very different from any of the similar ones had in India, except for two things - No advertisements, no trailers, no ‘coming attractions’ or ‘now playing’ teasers. Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] ^ Lee’s current travails with Rubik’s Cube takes one back to the time when the Cube entered one’s life, one balmy summer evening.

Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] Their wine list offers wines made from the owner's vineyard as well as French and New World wines. Bistro Léger, Siegfriedstraße 2, Ph: 011 49 06241 46277. Geared more towards the German baby boomers, the Bistro offers a very contemporary menu and matches it with wines from the areas around Worms. Hagenbräu, Am Rhein 3, Ph: 0049 6241 921100 [2] . . If you want to try real German cuisine with a freshly brewed beer (from their own brewery) then Hagenbräu is your first choice in Worms. ^ First there was the Urhnung Conflict, then you had the Culmination, after which there was the Re-Culmination followed by the Real Culmination.

Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] ^ Anyway, for those who are interested (what choice do you have, really, if you are here already? Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] ^ Of your own volition you've chosen to join me in this journey, with no further expectation (I hope) than being taken for a journey (I wont say 'ride'). Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] . Very nice in summertime where you can sit outside at the riverside and enjoy a chilled beer. ^ And yesterday you very nicely tell me that I must concentrate on the clutch-n-gears, brake, accelerator and the steering wheel.

Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] They sometimes has got changing buffet like schnitzelbuffet or fishbuffet for a good price between 5.30 and 9pm, just check it out on their website. This article is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow! Up to date as of January 14, 2010 From LoveToKnow 1911 WORMS , a city of Germany , in the grand-duchy of HesseDarmstadt, situated in a fertile plain called the Wonnegau, on the left bank of the Rhine , 25 m. S. of Mainz , 20 m. N.W. of Heidelberg , and 9 m. by rail N.W. of Mannheim . Pop. (1895) 28,636; (1905) 43,841, about a third of whom are Roman Catholics.

The town is irregularly built, and some of the old walls and towers still remain, but its general aspect is modern. The principal church and chief building is the spacious cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul , which ranks beside those of Spires and Mainz among the noblest Romanesque churches of the Rhine (see Architecture : Romanesque and Gothic in Germany). This magnificent basilica , with four round towers , two large domes, and a choir at each end, has a specially imposing exterior, though the impression produced by the interior, is also one of great dignity and simplicity, heightened by the natural colour of the red sandstone of which it is built. Only the ground plan and the lower part of the western towers belong to the original building consecrated in IIIo; the remainder was mostly finished by 1181, but the west choir and the vaulting were built in the 13th century, the elaborate south portal was added in the 14th century, and the central dome has been rebuilt. . The ornamentation of the older parts is simple to the verge of rudeness; and even the more elaborate later forms show no high development of workmanship.

^ It is a testament to the author's evocativeness that even though the book is about so much more than just Bombay, the Bombay-parts were so strongly fragrant that in my head it remains a Bombay-book. Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] The baptistery contains five remarkable stone reliefs of the late 15th century. The cathedral is 358 ft. long, and 89 ft. wide, or including the transepts, which are near the west end, 118 ft. (inside measurements). It belongs to the Roman Catholic community, who possess also the church of St Martin and the church of Our Lady (Liebfrauenkirche), a handsome Gothic edifice outside the town, finished in 1467. The principal Protestant place of worship is the Trinity church, built in 1726.

Second in interest to the cathedral is the church of St Paul, also in the Romanesque style , and dating from 1102-1116, with a choir of the early 13th century, cloisters and other monastic buildings. This church has been converted into an interesting museum of national antiquities. The late Romanesque church of St Andrew is not used. The old synagogue , an unassuming building erected in the r rth century and restored in the 13th, is completely modernized. The Jewish community of Worms (about 1300 in number) claims to be the most ancient in Germany and to have existed continuously since the Christian era, though the earliest authentic mention of it occurs in 588. A curious tradition, illustrating the efforts of the dispersed people to conciliate their oppressors, asserts that the Jews of Worms gave their voice against the crucifixion, but that their messenger did not arrive at Jerusalem until after the event. The town hall was rebuilt in 1884. The Bischofshof, in which the most famous diet of Worms (1521) was held, is now replaced by a handsome modern residence.

The Luginsland is an old watch - tower of the 13th century. In the Lutherplatz rises the imposing Luther monument (unveiled in 1868), on a platform 48 ft. sq. In the centre the colossal statue of Luther rises, on a pedestal at the base of which are sitting figures of Peter Waldo, Wycliffe , Hus and Savonarola, the heralds of the Reformation ; at the corners of the platform, on lower pedestals, are statues of Luther's contemporaries, Melanchthon, Reuchlin, Philip of Hesse , and Frederick the Wise of Saxony , between which are allegorical figures of Magdeburg (mourning), Spires (protesting) and Augsburg (confessing). The greater part of the work, which took nine years to execute, was designed by Rietschel, and carried out after his death in 1861 by Gustav Kietz (1826-1908), Adolf von Donndorf (b. 1835) and Johannes Schilling (b. 1828). The "Rosengarten" on the opposite bank of the Rhine.

associated with the, stories of the wooing of . Kriemhild (see infra), has been laid out in keeping with the old traditions and was opened with great festivities in 1906. Extensive burial -grounds, ranging in date from neolithic to Merovingian times, have recently been discovered near the city. ^ The Muscat restaurant scene has been seeing a lot of action in recent times. Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] The trade and industry of Worms are important, and not the least resource of the inhabitants is vine -growing, the most famous vintage being known as Liebfraumilch, grown on vineyards near the Liebfrauenkirche. The manufacture of patent leather employs about 5000 hands. Machinery, wool , cloth, chicory , slates, &c., are also produced. Worms possesses a good river harbour, and carries on a considerable trade by water.

Worms was known in Roman times as Borbetomagus, which in the Merovingian age became Wormatia, afterwards by popular etymology connected with Wurm, a dragon . The name Borbetomagus indicates a Celtic origin for the town, which had, however, before Caesar's time become the capital of a German tribe, the Vangiones. Drusus is said to have erected a fort here in 14 B.C. In 413 the emperor Jovinus permitted the Burgundians under their king Guntar or Guntiar to settle on the left bank of the Rhine between the Lauter and the Nahe . Here they founded a kingdom with Worms as its capital. . Adopting Arianism they came into conflict with the Romans , and under their king Gundahar or Gundicar (the Gunther of the Nibelungenlied ) rose in 435 against the Roman governor Aetius , who called in the Huns against them. ^ Iqbal* has just called, thank you Iqbal, to tell us that Sheikh Zayed is completely choked up and that they are diverting traffic into Karama.

Travels With a Centipede 10 February 2010 13:013 UTC rhyncus.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source] The destruction of Worms and the Burgundian kingdom by the Huns in 436 was the subject of heroic legends afterwards incorporated in the Nibelungenlied (q.v.) and the Rosengarten (an epic probably of the late 13th century). In the Nibelungenlied King Gunther and Queen Brunhild hold their court at Worms, and Siegfried comes hither to woo Kriemhild. Worms was rebuilt by the Merovingians , and became an episcopal see, first mentioned in 614, although a bishop of the Vangiones had attended a council at Cologne as early as 347. There was a royal palace from the 8th century, in which the Frankish kings, including Charlemagne , occasionally resided. The scene of the graceful though unhistorical romance of Einhard and Emma, the daughter of Charlemagne, is laid here.

Under the German kings the power of the bishops of Worms gradually increased, although they never attained the importance of the other Rhenish bishops. Otto I . granted extensive lands to the bishop, and in 979 Bishop Hildbold acquired comital rights in his city. Burchard I. (bishop from 1000 to 1025)destroyed the castle of the Franconian house at Worms, built the cathedral and laid the foundations of the subsequent territorial power of the see. There were frequent struggles between the bishops and the citizens, who espoused the cause of the emperors against them, and were rewarded by privileges which fostered trade. Herny IV. granted a charter to Worms in 1074, and held a synod there in 1076, by which Pope Gregory VII . was declared deposed. Henry V .

acquired Worms in 1121 by the treaty of Wiirzburg, built a castle and granted privileges to the city, which retained its freedom until 1801, in spite of the bishops, who ruled a small territory south of the city, on both sides of the Rhine, and resided at Ladenburg near Mannheim till 1622. The city of Worms was frequently visited by the imperial court, and won the title of "Mother of Diets." The concordat of Worms closed the investiture controversy in 1 12 2. The "perpetual peace" (ewiger Landfriede) was proclaimed by the emperor Maximilian I . at the diet of 1495, and Luther appeared before the famous diet of 1521 to defend his doctrines in the presence of Charles V . Four years later, Worms formally embraced Protestantism, and religious conferences were held there in 15 4 0 and 1557. It suffered severely during the Thirty Years' War .

After being sacked in turn by Mansfeld , Tilly and the Spaniards, it was taken by Oxenstierna in 1632, who held a convention here with his German allies. The imperialists again took Worms in 1635, and it admitted the French under Turenne in 1644. The French under Melac burnt the city almost entirely in 1689, and it has only fully recovered from this blow in recent years. Thus the population, which XXVIII. 27 in its prosperous days is said to have exceeded 50,000, had sunk in 1815 to 6250. By the treaty of Worms in 1743 an offensive alliance was formed between Great Britain , Austria and Sardinia . The French under Custine took the city by surprise in 1792 and it was annexed by the peace of Luneville in 1801 to France , together with the bishop's territories on the left bank of the Rhine.

The remaining episcopal dominions were secularized in 1803 and given to Hesse-Darmstadt , which acquired the whole by the Vienna Congress in 1815. In 1849 the Baden revolutionaries seized Worms, but were overthrown by the Mecklenburgers and Prussians in May of that year. See Zorn, Wormser Chronik (Stuttgart, 1857); Fuchs, Geschichte der Stadt Worms (Worms, 1868); F. Soldan, Der Reichstag zu Worms, 1521 (Worms, 1883); Beitrage zur Geschichte der Stadt Worms (Worms, 1896); G. Wolf , Zur Geschichte der Juden in Worms (Breslau, 1862); Nover, Das alte and neue Worms (Worms, 1895).

What is The Difference Between Virus and Worm Tweet Worm The term worm refers to an obsolete taxon (vermes) used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, and stems from the Old English word wyrm.

worm n 1: any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae 2: a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect [syn: {louse}, {insect}, {dirt ball}] 3: a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network; "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers" 4: screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack v : to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: {writhe}, {wrestle}, {wriggle}, {squirm}, {twist}] WORM Write Once Read Many (CD) 134 Moby Thesaurus words for "worm": amble, angleworm, animal, armyworm, beast, blast, blight, blighter, bollworm, bookworm, cancer

, canker, claudicate, contort, corkscrew, cotton worm, crawl, creep, crinkle, cur, dog, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, dry rot, earthworm, earworm, edge in, fireworm, fishworm, foist, fungus, go dead slow, go on tiptoe, go slow, grovel, gumshoe, helminth, hobble, hound, hyena, idle, inch, inch along, inchworm, infiltrate, insect, intort, jog-trot, laze, leech, limp, looper, lowlife, meander, measuring worm, mildew, mold, mongrel, mosey, moth, moth and rust, mucker, must, nematode, night crawler, nightwalk, nightwalker, no-good, pad, pest, pig, poke, poke along, polecat, prowl, pussyfoot, reptile, rot, rust, saunter, scallop, scrabble, scramble, screw, serpent, serpentine, shuffle along, sidle, silkworm, skunk, slink, smut, snake, sneak, squiggle, squirm, stagger along

, steal, steal along, stroll, swine, swirl, tapeworm, tippytoe, tiptoe, toddle, toddle along, totter along, traipse, turn, tussah, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, varmint, vermin, viper, waddle, walk, webworm, whelp, whirl, whorl, wiggle, wind, wireworm, woodworm, work in, worm along, wring, writhe worm n.

[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 {cracker}s write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's {Great Worm} of 1988, a `benign' one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U.S. See also {cracker}, {RTM}, {Trojan horse}, {ice}. Worm \Worm\, v. t. 1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out. [1913 Webster] They find themselves wormed out of all power. --Swift. [1913 Webster] They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] 2. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

See {Worm}, n. 5 (b) . [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 4. (Naut.) 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. [1913 Webster] Ropes . . . are generally wormed before they are served. --Totten. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] {To worm one's self into}, to enter into gradually by arts and insinuations; as, to worm one's self into favor. [1913 Webster] Worm \Worm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wormed}; p. pr. & vb.

n. {Worming}.] To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. [1913 Webster] When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded. --Herbert. [1913 Webster] Worm \Worm\ (w[^u]rm), n. [OE. worm, wurm, AS. wyrm; akin to D. worm, OS. & G. wurm, Icel. ormr, Sw. & Dan. orm, Goth. wa['u]rms, L. vermis, Gr. ? a wood worm. Cf. {Vermicelli}, {Vermilion}, {Vermin}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer. --Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4).

[1913 Webster] 'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. --Shak. [1913 Webster] When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. Specifically: (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any helminth; an entozo["o]n. (b) Any annelid. (c) An insect larva. (d) pl. Same as {Vermes}. [1913 Webster] 3. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. [1913 Webster] The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. A being debased and despised. [1913 Webster] I am a worm, and no man. --Ps.

xxii. 6. [1913 Webster] 5. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as: (a) The thread of a screw. [1913 Webster] The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms. --Moxon. [1913 Webster] (b) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. (c) (Anat.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See {Lytta}. (d) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of {Still}. (e) (Mach.) 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. [1913 Webster] {Worm abscess} (Med.), an abscess produced by the irritation resulting from the lodgment of a worm in some part of the body. {Worm fence}. See under {Fence}.

{Worm gear}. (Mach.) (a) A worm wheel. (b) Worm gearing. {Worm gearing}, gearing consisting of a worm and worm wheel working together. {Worm grass}. (Bot.) (a) See {Pinkroot}, 2 (a) . (b) The white stonecrop ({Sedum album}) reputed to have qualities as a vermifuge. --Dr. Prior. {Worm oil} (Med.), an anthelmintic consisting of oil obtained from the seeds of {Chenopodium anthelminticum}. {Worm powder} (Med.), an anthelmintic powder. {Worm snake}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Thunder snake} (b), under {Thunder}. {Worm tea} (Med.), an anthelmintic tea or tisane. {Worm tincture} (Med.), a tincture prepared from dried earthworms, oil of tartar, spirit of wine, etc.

[Obs.] {Worm wheel}, a cogwheel having teeth formed to fit into the spiral spaces of a screw called a worm, so that the wheel may be turned by, or may turn, the worm; -- called also {worm gear}, and sometimes {tangent wheel}. See Illust. of {Worm gearing}, above. [1913 Webster] Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. ['e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.] 1.

A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut. [1913 Webster] Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver.

Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also {wood screws}, and {screw nails}. See also {Screw bolt}, below. [1913 Webster] 3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See {Screw propeller}, below. [1913 Webster] 4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller. [1913 Webster] 5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges] [1913 Webster] 7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew. [1913 Webster] 8.

An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster] 9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th {Pitch}, 10 (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis. [1913 Webster] 10. (Zo["o]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw ({Caprella}). See {Sand screw}, under {Sand}. [1913 Webster] {Archimedes screw}, {Compound screw}, {Foot screw}, etc. See under {Archimedes}, {Compound}, {Foot}, etc. {A screw loose}, something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H. Martineau.

{Endless screw}, or {perpetual screw}, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a {worm}. {Lag screw}. See under {Lag}. {Micrometer screw}, a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces. {Right and left screw}, a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. {Screw alley}. See {Shaft alley}, under {Shaft}. {Screw bean}. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree ({Prosopis pubescens}) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. {Screw bolt}, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a {key bolt}. See 1st {Bolt}, 3. {Screw box}, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw. {Screw dock}. See under {Dock}.

{Screw engine}, a marine engine for driving a screw propeller. {Screw gear}. See {Spiral gear}, under {Spiral}. {Screw jack}. Same as {Jackscrew}. {Screw key}, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner wrench. {Screw machine}. (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods. {Screw pine} (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus {Pandanus}, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves. {Screw plate}, a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws forming dies. {Screw press}, a press in which pressure is exerted by means of a screw.

{Screw propeller}, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel propelled by a screw. {Screw shell} (Zo["o]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied genera. See {Turritella}. {Screw steamer}, a steamship propelled by a screw. {Screw thread}, the spiral rib which forms a screw. {Screw stone} (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite. {Screw tree} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Helicteres}, consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs, with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled capsules; -- also called {twisted-horn}, and {twisty}. {Screw valve}, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a screw. {Screw worm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an American fly ({Compsomyia macellaria}), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. {Screw wrench}.

(a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. {To put the screws on} or {To put the screw on}, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce. {To put under the screw} or {To put under the screws}, to subject to pressure; to force. {Wood screw}, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of {Wood screw}, under {Wood}. [1913 Webster] WORM {Write-Once Read-Many} worm (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 (1.) Heb. sas (Isa.

51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. (2.) The manna bred worms (tola'im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these words refer to caterpillars or larvae, which feed on corrupting matter. These two Hebrew words appear to be interchangeable (Job 25:6; Isa. 14:11). Tola'im in some places denotes the caterpillar (Deut. 28:39; Jonah 4:7), and rimmah, the larvae, as bred from putridity (Job 17:14; 21:26; 24:20). In Micah 7:17, where it is said, "They shall move out of their holes like worms," perhaps serpents or "creeping things," or as in the Revised Version, "crawling things," are meant. The word is used figuratively in Job 25:6; Ps. 22:6; Isa.

41:14; Mark 9:44, 46, 48; Isa. 66:24.

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 worm - definition and meaning worm Definitions from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition n.

Any of various invertebrates, as those of the phyla Annelida, Nematoda, Nemertea, or Platyhelminthes, having a long, flexible, rounded or flattened body, often without obvious appendages. n. Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft elongated body. n. Any of various unrelated animals, such as the shipworm or the slowworm, resembling a worm in habit or appearance. n. Something, such as the thread of a screw or the spiral condenser in a still, that resembles a worm in form or appearance. n. The spirally threaded shaft of a worm gear. n. An insidiously tormenting or devouring force: "felt the black worm of treachery growing in his heart” ( Mario Puzo). n. A person regarded as pitiable or contemptible. n. Pathology Infestation of the intestines or other parts of the body with worms or wormlike parasites; helminthiasis. n. Computer Science A malicious program that replicates itself until it fills all of the storage space on a drive or network. transitive v.

To make (one's way) with or as if with the sinuous crawling motion of a worm. transitive v. To work (one's way or oneself) subtly or gradually; insinuate: She wormed her way into his confidence. transitive v. To elicit by artful or devious means. Usually used with out of: wormed a confession out of the suspect. transitive v. To cure of intestinal worms. transitive v. Nautical To wrap yarn or twine spirally around (rope). intransitive v. To move in a manner suggestive of a worm. intransitive v. To make one's way by artful or devious means: He can't worm out of this situation. from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License n. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum. n. A contemptible or devious being. n. A self-replicating program that propagates through a network. n. A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings. n. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw. n. A dragon or mythological serpent. n.

An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. v. To make (one's way) with a crawling motion. v. To work one's way by artful or devious means. v. To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate. v. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out. v. To obtain information from someone through artful or devious means (usually used with out of) v. To fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serving. v. To deworm an animal. v. To move with one's body dragging the ground. v. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. v. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English n.

A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. n. Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals n. Any helminth; an entozoön. n. Any annelid. n. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. n. A being debased and despised. n. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm. n. The thread of a screw. n. A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. n. A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta. n. The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still. n. 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. intransitive v. To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.

transitive v. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out. transitive v. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b). transitive v. 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. transitive v. 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. from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia To move like a worm; go or advance as a worm; crawl or creep sinuously; wriggle; writhe; squirm: as, to worm along. To work or act slowly, stealthily, or secretly. To effect by slow, stealthy, or insidious means: as, to worm one's way along. Specifically To extract, remove, expel, or take away by underhand means persistently continued: generally with out or from.

To subject to a stealthy process of ferreting out one's secrets or private affairs; play the spy upon. To free from worms. To remove the charge, etc., from, as a gun, by means of a worm. See worm, n., 6 . To remove the worm or lytta from the tongue of, as of a dog: supposed to be a precaution against madness. To remove the beard of (an oyster or mussel). To give a spiral form to; put a thread on. Nautical, to wind rope-yarns, spun yarn, or similar material spirally round (a rope) so as to fill the spaces between the strands and render the surface smooth for parceling and serving. See cuts under parceling and serving-mallet. n. A conical winding-drum having a spiral groove in which the winding rope or chain lies as it is wound upon the drum, the object being to wind the rope at first over the smaller diameter of the cone, and to increase the leverage as the winding proceeds. A common example is the brake-chain worm of a railroad car at the lower end of a brake-shaft. n.

The driving element in screw-gearing or worm-gearing; the helix whose section is that of a wheel-tooth described upon a cylinder as a base which bears upon the tooth of the worm-wheel to cause the latter to revolve. n. In popular language, any small creeping creature whose body consists of a number of movable joints or rings, and whose limbs are very short or entirely wanting; any vermiform animal. n. Any annelid, as the earthworm, lobworm or lugworm, leech, etc. See the distinctive names. n. Any helminth, whether parasitic or not, as a flat-worm, brain-worm, fluke-worm, roundworm, tapeworm, pinworm, hairworm, threadworm, spoonworm, longworm, whirl-worm, guinea-worm, etc. See such words, and vinegar-eel. n. One of several long slender vermiform echinoderms, as some holothurians and related forms. See Vermiformia, and cuts under Synapta and trepang. n. Some small or slender acarine or mite, or its larva, as the worm found in sebaceous follicles.

See comedo and Demodex. n. A myriapod; a contiped or milleped; a gally-worm. n. The larva, grub, maggot, or caterpillar of many true hexapod insects: as, bag-worm; boll-worm; book-worm; wire-worm; sod-worm; snake-worm; joint-worm; silkworms. See the compounded and otherwise qualified names. n. The adult of some true insects whose body is long and flexible, as a glow-worm. n. One of several long slender crustaceans with short legs or none, which attach to or burrow in other animals, bore into wood, etc., as some kinds of fish-lice, certain isopods (as the gribble), certain amphipods (as the wood-shrimp), etc. n. One of some vermiform mollusks, as a teredo or shipworm, or a wormshell. See cuts under shipworm and Vermetus. n. A small lizard with rudimentary legs, or none, as a blindworm or slow-worm. n. A serpent; a snake; a dragon.

For a modern instance in composition, see worm-snake, 1. n. Technically, in zoology, any member of the Linnean class Vermes, or of the modern phylum or subkingdom of the same name; any turbellarian, planarian, nemertean, platyhelminth, nemathelminth, trematoid, cestoid, nematoid, chætognath, gephyrean, annelid, etc. n. A person or human being likened to a worm as an object of scorn, disgust, contempt, pity, and the like: as, man is but a worm of the dust. n. n. Figuratively, of inanimate objects, something that slowly, silently, or stealthily eats, makes, or works its way, to the pain, injury, or destruction of the object affected: used emblematically or symbolically. n. An uneasy conscience; the gnawing or torment of conscience; remorse. n. In anatomy, some vermiform part or process of an animal's body. n. Anything thought to resemble a worm in appearance, or in having a spiral or curved movement. n.

plural Any disease or disorder arising from the presence of parasitic worms in the intestines or other tissues; helminthiasis n. A worm parasitic in the intestine of another animal, as a tapeworm, threadworm, pinworm, etc. from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. n. screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack v. to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) n. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect n. a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network n. any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae Etymologies from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition Middle English, from Old English wurm, variant of wyrm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License From Middle English worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from Old English wyrm ‘snake, worm’, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (compare Dutch worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Danish orm), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (compare Latin vermis '‘worm’, Lithuanian var̃mas ‘insect, midge’, Albanian rrime ‘rainworm’, Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhómos) ‘woodworm’), possibly from *wer- ‘to turn’. First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.

Examples To add to the confusion, Mondino dei Luzzi (1306) described the choroid plexus in the lateral ventricles as a worm which can open and close the passage between the anterior and middle ventricles, with the result that, in the late Middle Ages, the term ˜worm™ could refer to no less than three different parts of the brain: the vermis of the cerebellum, the pineal body and the choroid plexus worm *self - это... Что такое worm *self? worm *self worm *self: ( фигурально ) вкрадываться [вкрасться] (into в) Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь. 2001. worm auger Смотреть что такое "worm *self" в других словарях: Worm — Worm, v. t. 1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out. [1913 Webster] They find themselves wormed out of all power. Swift. [1913 Webster] They . . .

wormed things out of me that I had no… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English Worm (disambiguation) — Worm is an elongated soft bodied invertebrate animal.Worm may also refer to:* Computer worm, a self propagating piece of malicious software * Write Once Read Many, or WORM , a characteristic of data storage media * Worm (marketing), a market… … Wikipedia Worm charming — Worm charming, worm grunting, and worm fiddling are methods of attracting earthworms from the ground. The activity is usually performed to collect bait for fishing but can also take the form of a competitive sport. As a skill and profession worm… … Wikipedia Worm theology — is a term used for a system of belief in Christian culture that a feeling and expression of low self worth means God is more likely to show mercy and compassion. The name comes from a line in the Isaac Watts hymn Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed… … Wikipedia Self-replication — is any process by which a thing might make a copy of itself. Biological cells, given suitable environments, reproduce by cell division. During cell division, DNA is replicated and can be transmitted to offspring during reproduction.

Biological… … Wikipedia Self reconfigurable — Self reconfiguration is a term used in the fields of robotics and nanotechnology. It refers to the use of numerous semi independent modules that can combine themselves in different ways to perform different functions. For example, a robot made of … Wikipedia Worm drive — A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm gear (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear, and is also called a worm wheel). The terminology is often confused by imprecise… … Wikipedia worm — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wyrm serpent, worm; akin to Old High German wurm serpent, worm, Latin vermis worm Date: before 12th century 1. a. earthworm; broadly an annelid worm b. any of numerous… … New Collegiate Dictionary worm — noun 1》 an earthworm or other creeping or burrowing invertebrate animal having a long, slender soft body and no limbs.

[Annelida, Nematoda (roundworms), Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and other phyla.] ↘(worms) intestinal or other internal… … English new terms dictionary Self-reconfiguring modular robot — Modular self reconfiguring robotic systems or self reconfigurable modular robots are autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology. Beyond conventional actuation, sensing and control typically found in fixed morphology robots, self… … Wikipedia Self-relocation — When computer programs execute upon a computer, their instructions are at the same time stored within the main memory of a computer. As it is necessary for the processor of the computer to retrieve these instructions in a timely and orderly… … Wikipedia 16+

Question: What can be an invertebrate animal, a screw-like gear, or a piece of malicious software?
Answer: Worm