worm
noun
[ wəːm ]
• any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.
• a weak or despicable person (often used as a general term of abuse).
• "it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful"
• a helical device or component.
• a self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect.
worm
verb
• move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling.
• "I wormed my way along the roadside ditch"
• insinuate one's way into.
• "you wormed your way into their lives"
• treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms.
• "I wormed her over a course of three weeks"
• make (a rope) smooth by winding thread between the strands.
Origin:
Old English wyrm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Latin vermis ‘worm’ and Greek rhomox ‘woodworm’.
WORM
abbreviation
• write-once read-many, denoting a type of memory device.
