Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
- (kemia)coil
- louse
- (telekommunikaatio)computer worm
- (kemia)feed screw
- (kemia)screw
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- (archaic or poetic) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
- (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.
- (fantasy, science fiction) Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
- (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- (informal or poetic) A maggot.
- (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- (anatomy) The lytta.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
Verbi
- (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) 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).
- (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
Esimerkit
- ‘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. […]’
- Don't try to run away, you little worm!
- I am a worm, and no man.
- The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms.
- 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.
- '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.
- The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!
- We wormed our way through the underbrush.
- When debates and fretting jealousy / Did worm and work within you more and more, / Your colour faded.
- He wormed his way into the organization
- They find themselves wormed out of all power.
- They[...]wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.
- He nodded. "Mum's the word, Mrs. Bunting! It'll all be in the last editions of the evening newspapers—it can't be kep' out. There'd be too much of a row if twas!" ¶ "Are you going off to that public-house now?" she asked. ¶ "I've got a awk'ard job—to try and worm something out of the barmaid."
- Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
- Ropes[...]are generally wormed before they are served.
- 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.
- The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.
- A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm meshes with a worm gear.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | wormed |
| Imperfekti | wormed |
| Partisiipin preesens | worming |
| Monikko | worms |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | worms |