Look up: worm

1. Worm
   [artillery] A worm is a device used to remove unspent powder bag remnants from a cannon or other piece of muzzle loading field artillery. It usually took the form of a double corkscrew shaped piece of iron on the end of a long pole that could be twisted down the barrel to pick up any debris ...
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2. Worm
   Worm is Black-American slang for to study.
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3. Worm
   [comics] Worm is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ==Fictional character biography== Worm was a Savage Land dweller, recruited by the mutant Zaladane to join the Savage Land Mutates as a warrior. He has the ability to secrete a liquid from his hands that, when it comes into conta...
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4. Worm
   [Kamen Rider] The Worms were designed by Nirasawa Yasushi, who also designed the Undead for Kamen Rider Blade, the Horrors in GARO and later created the Imagin for Kamen Rider Den-O. These designs were later detailed in Wāmu Wākusu GITAI. ==Shibuya Meteorite== A mysterious meteorite that c...
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5. 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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6. Worm
   [marketing] The "worm" is a market research analysis tool developed by Roy Morgan Research (who called it The Reactor), with the purpose of gauging an audience`s reaction to some visual stimuli over some time period. The name "worm" describes its visual appearance - as a line graph snaking u...
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7. 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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8. 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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9. worm
   replacing bug and virus, worm is the new word of menace on the web. Worms, such as 2001's Code Red and Nimda, are malicious programs which spread across networks looking for vulnerable machines to infect.
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10. 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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11. WORM
    Write Once, Read Many
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12. worm
    A form of computer virus which propagates around networks, usually by exploiting vulnerabilities in an email client or UA.
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Worm
    the Internet equivalent of a virus - it replicates itself and is self propagating
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17. 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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18. Worm
    A computer program that replicates independently by sending itself to other systems.
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19. Worm
    The threaded cylinder or shaft designed to mesh with a worm gear. See also: Gear Design, Worm Gear.
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20. 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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21. Worm
    A self-replicating virus that eventually leads to the infected computer crashing.
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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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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