Look up: worm

1. Worm
   Worm is Black-American slang for to study.
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2. WORM
   Worms are parasitic computer programs that replicate, but unlike viruses, do not infect other computer program files. Worms can create copies on the same computer, or can send the copies to other computers via a network.
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3. worm
   Any of various elongated, limbless invertebrates belonging to several phyla. Worms include the flatworms, such as flukes and tapeworms; the roundworms or nematodes, such as the eelworm and the hookworm; the marine ribbon worms or nemerteans; and the segmented worms or annelids
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4. WORM
   Write-Once-Read-Many. A CD-ROM is a typical WORM medium: the CD-ROM is written once when it is etched and it cannot be written to again. However, it can be read any number of times.
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5. worm
   [n] - has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect 2. [n] - screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack 3. [n] - any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes
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6. WORM
   Write Once, Read Many
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7. worm
   A form of computer virus which propagates around networks, usually by exploiting vulnerabilities in an email client or UA.
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8. WORM
   Write-Once-Read-Many. Characteristic of digital storage medium on which data can be recorded once and read many times. The written data cannot subsequently be modified.
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9. Worm
   As opposed to earthworm worms are generally intestinal worms of livestock which are normally contracted by infected pasture. Animals may be treated with anthelmintics to control worms.
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10. Worm
    Similar to viruses but they do not need a carrier program or document. They typically spread themselves without any action by a computer user. Worms simply create exact copies of themselves and travel between connected computers by exploiting security 'holes' in the computer's operating system. As t...
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11. Worm
    the Internet equivalent of a virus - it replicates itself and is self propagating
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12. Worm
    A worm is a program that can replicate itself by sending copies in e-mail messages or over a network.
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13. Worm
    A computer program that replicates independently by sending itself to other systems.
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14. Worm
    The threaded cylinder or shaft designed to mesh with a worm gear. See also: Gear Design, Worm Gear.
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15. worm
    an independent program which can travel from computer to computer across network connections replicating itself in each computer Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the driving screw of a worm gearing Category: Physics • The European 'snake' is ...
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16. Worm
    A self-replicating virus that eventually leads to the infected computer crashing.
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17. Worm
    Write Once Read Many. Most common to optical disks. Worm refers to data storage that cannot be change once written. However, it may be read as many times as desired.
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18. Worm
    Worm (wûrm) noun [ Middle English worm , wurm , Anglo-Saxon wyrm ; akin to Dutch worm , Old Saxon & German wurm , Icelandic ormr , Swedish & Danish orm , Goth. waúrms , Latin vermis , ...
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19. Worm
    Worm intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Wormed ; present participle & verbal noun Worming .] To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. « When debates and fretting jealousy...
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20. Worm
    Worm transitive verb 1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out . « They find themselves wormed out of all power.» Swift. « They . . . wormed
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21. worm
    1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. '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)) '...
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22. worm
    noun 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
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23. worm
    noun screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
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24. worm
    noun 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`
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25. worm
    louse noun a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
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