Meaning of worm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Initialism of write once, read many.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm
4. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
5. More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms
6. More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
7. Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar
8. Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
   archaic, poetic
9. A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.
   archaic
10. A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon. Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm
11. Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
    archaic
12. Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm
13. A contemptible or devious being.
14. A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
15. A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
16. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
17. A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
18. The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
19. A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
20. The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
21. A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
22. A maggot.
    informal, poetic
23. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
    figuratively
24. A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
25. The lytta.
26. A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.

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Examples

“‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’”

“Leaning that I might eat, I stretched and clung Over the shapeless depth in which those corpses hung. A woman’s shape, now lank and cold and blue, The dwelling of the many-coloured worm, Hung there […]”

“1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 28:3-4, And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue.”

“[…] No, ’tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile […]”

“When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm! His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks; Not a limb had he that was motionless.”

“In the Cross of Cong (A.D. 1123) the Celtic inter-laced patterns are found side by side with the "worm-dragon" ornament ..”

“Indeed the allusion to the more renowned worm killed by the Wælsing is sufficient indication that the poet selected a dragon of well-founded purpose[.]”

“The after fifty years a foul worm, a dragon, took it upon itself to hold sway through the heavens at night.”

“Don't try to run away, you little worm!”

“But I am a worme, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.”

“Would he devote that Sacred Head / For ſuch a Worm as I?”

“When Trevor opened his email, a worm spread to 100 people in his address book.”

“If the Worms of the Nut or Spindle be worn, the Spindle must be examin'd by the Smith”

“Food for the worms.”

“The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!”

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