Worm

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.

   “‘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.[…]’”

2. isim More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. See Appendix:English worms.

   “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 […]”

3. isim Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.

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

4. isim A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.

   “Those little wriggling worms are the larvae of flies who laid eggs here.”

5. isim A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.

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

6. isim Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
7. isim A contemptible or devious being.

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

8. isim A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.

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

9. isim A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
10. isim Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

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

11. isim A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
12. isim The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
13. isim A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
14. isim The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
15. isim A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
16. isim An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.

    “The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!”

17. isim A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
18. isim The lytta.
19. isim A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
20. fiil To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

    “We wormed our way through the underbrush.”

21. fiil To move with one's body dragging the ground.

    “Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath[…].”

22. fiil To work one's way by artful or devious means.

    “When debates and fretting jealousy / Did worm and work within you more and more, / Your colour faded.”

23. fiil To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

    “He wormed his way into the organization.”

24. fiil To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.

    “They […]find themselves wormed out of all power.”

25. fiil To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).

    “They[…]wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.”

26. fiil To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.

    “Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.”

27. fiil To deworm (an animal).
28. fiil 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.

    “The men[…] assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.”

29. fiil To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
30. isim Initialism of write once, read many.