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  • 41WORM — The word tola at or tole ah is employed in the Bible and the Talmud both for destructive caterpillars and for the rainworm; sometimes the combination rimmah ve tole ah (= maggots and worms) occurs. One of the curses in the commination of the… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 42Worm — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Worm, terme anglais pour indiquer un ver informatique Worm, rivière d Allemagne et des Pays Bas WORM : procédé de stockage informatique Worms, est… …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 43Worm — Ole, Danish anatomist, 1588–1654. See wormian bones, under bone. * * * write once read many times * * * worm wərm n 1) any of various relatively small elongated usu. naked and soft bodied parasitic animals (as of the phylum Platyhelminthes) 2)… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 44worm — 1. In anatomy, any structure resembling a w., e.g., the midline part of the cerebellum in the forms of “vermis” and “lumbrical.” 2. Term once used to designate any member of the invertebrate group or former subkingdom Vermes, a collective term …

    Medical dictionary

  • 45worm — Synonyms and related words: amble, angleworm, animal, armyworm, beast, blast, blight, blighter, bollworm, bookworm, cancer, canker, claudicate, contort, corkscrew, cotton worm, crawl, creep, crinkle, cur, dog, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 46worm — ● ►en /ou*rm/ n. m. ►SECU Version anglaise de ver. Voir aussi Great Worm. Le terme de Worm est apparu dès mars 1982, pour un concept inventé par John Shoch à la fin des années 1970 au Xerox PARC. Ces tout premiers vers devaient servir à explorer… …

    Dictionnaire d'informatique francophone

  • 47worm — [wɜːm] noun [C] I 1) a small creature with a long soft body and no bones or legs 2) computing a program that deliberately damages computer systems by making copies of itself II verb worm [wɜːm] worm your way into/out of sth to use clever methods… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 48worm — See: EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM or EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 49worm — See: EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM or EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 50worm — Screw Screw (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. [ e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English