INSECT vs WORM: NOUN
- A contemptible or powerless person.
- Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc
- An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
- A powder used for the extermination of insects; esp., the powdered flowers of certain species of Pyrethrum, a genus now merged in Chrysanthemum. Called also Persian powder.
- Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
- Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
- Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
- In zoology, any member of the class or other division of animals called Insecta; an arthropod; a condylopod; an articulated animal with articulated legs, especially one with six such legs; a hexapod. See Insecta and Hexapoda, 1.
- A small, usually winged and many-legged, invertebrate creature whose body appears to consist of several segments: a term used in popular speech without exactitude, being applied not only to flies, fleas, dragon-flies, butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, crickets, grasshoppers, roaches, beetles, bugs, lice, and other familiar creatures properly called insects, but also, improperly, to other small creatures whose structure and relations are not popularly understood, as the so-called coral insect, which is an actinozoan.
- An insignificant or contemptible person.
- Any of various other small, chiefly arthropod animals, such as spiders, centipedes, or ticks, usually having many legs. Not in scientific use.
- Any of numerous arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having one or two pairs of wings. Insects include the flies, crickets, mosquitoes, beetles, butterflies, and bees.
- A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See insecta.
- Small air-breathing arthropod
- A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- A software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
- Screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
- Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- A person or human being likened to a worm as an object of scorn, disgust, contempt, pity, and the like: as, man is but a worm of the dust.
- Figuratively, of inanimate objects, something that slowly, silently, or stealthily eats, makes, or works its way, to the pain, injury, or destruction of the object affected: used emblematically or symbolically.
- An uneasy conscience; the gnawing or torment of conscience; remorse.
- In anatomy, some vermiform part or process of an animal's body.
- Anything thought to resemble a worm in appearance, or in having a spiral or curved movement.
- In popular language, any small creeping creature whose body consists of a number of movable joints or rings, and whose limbs are very short or entirely wanting; any vermiform animal.
- Any annelid, as the earthworm, lobworm or lugworm, leech, etc. See the distinctive names.
- Any helminth, whether parasitic or not, as a flat-worm, brain-worm, fluke-worm, roundworm, tapeworm, pinworm, hairworm, threadworm, spoonworm, longworm, whirl-worm, guinea-worm, etc. See such words, and vinegar-eel.
- One of several long slender vermiform echinoderms, as some holothurians and related forms. See Vermiformia, and cuts under Synapta and trepang.
- Some small or slender acarine or mite, or its larva, as the worm found in sebaceous follicles. See comedo and Demodex.
- A myriapod; a contiped or milleped; a gally-worm.
- The larva, grub, maggot, or caterpillar of many true hexapod insects: as, bag-worm; boll-worm; book-worm; wire-worm; sod-worm; snake-worm; joint-worm; silkworms. See the compounded and otherwise qualified names.
- The driving element in screw-gearing or worm-gearing; the helix whose section is that of a wheel-tooth described upon a cylinder as a base which bears upon the tooth of the worm-wheel to cause the latter to revolve.
- A conical winding-drum having a spiral groove in which the winding rope or chain lies as it is wound upon the drum, the object being to wind the rope at first over the smaller diameter of the cone, and to increase the leverage as the winding proceeds. A common example is the brake-chain worm of a railroad car at the lower end of a brake-shaft.
- The adult of some true insects whose body is long and flexible, as a glow-worm.
- One of several long slender crustaceans with short legs or none, which attach to or burrow in other animals, bore into wood, etc., as some kinds of fish-lice, certain isopods (as the gribble), certain amphipods (as the wood-shrimp), etc.
- One of some vermiform mollusks, as a teredo or shipworm, or a wormshell. See cuts under shipworm and Vermetus.
- Any of various invertebrates, especially an annelid, flatworm, nematode, or nemertean, having a long, flexible, rounded or flattened body, often without obvious appendages.
- A small lizard with rudimentary legs, or none, as a blindworm or slow-worm.
- A serpent; a snake; a dragon. For a modern instance in composition, see worm-snake, 1.
- Technically, in zoology, any member of the Linnean class Vermes, or of the modern phylum or subkingdom of the same name; any turbellarian, planarian, nemertean, platyhelminth, nemathelminth, trematoid, cestoid, nematoid, chætognath, gephyrean, annelid, etc.
- A malicious program that replicates itself until it fills all of the storage space on a drive or network.
- Infestation of the intestines or other parts of the body with parasitic worms; helminthiasis.
- A person regarded as pitiable or contemptible.
- An insidiously tormenting or devouring force.
- The spirally threaded shaft of a worm gear.
- Something, such as the thread of a screw or the spiral condenser in a still, that resembles a worm in form or appearance.
- Any of various other animals, such as a shipworm or a slowworm, having a long slender limbless body.
- Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft elongated body.
INSECT vs WORM: ADJECTIVE
- Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
- Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
- N/A
INSECT vs WORM: VERB
- N/A
- To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
INSECT vs WORM: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To make one's way by artful or devious means.
- To move in a manner suggestive of a worm.
- To wrap yarn or twine spirally around (rope).
- To elicit by artful or devious means. Usually used with out of.
- To work (one's way or oneself) subtly or gradually; insinuate.
- To make (one's way) with the sinuous crawling motion of a worm.
- To cure of intestinal worms.
INSECT vs WORM: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To seek or catch insects, as a bird does.
- Like an insect in any respect; small; mean; contemptible.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an insect or insects: as, insect transformations; insect architecture.
- To remove the worm or lytta from the tongue of, as of a dog: supposed to be a precaution against madness.
- To remove the beard of (an oyster or mussel).
- To give a spiral form to; put a thread on.
- Nautical, to wind rope-yarns, spun yarn, or similar material spirally round (a rope) so as to fill the spaces between the strands and render the surface smooth for parceling and serving. See cuts under parceling and serving-mallet.
- To free from worms.
- To subject to a stealthy process of ferreting out one's secrets or private affairs; play the spy upon.
- To extract, remove, expel, or take away by underhand means persistently continued: generally with out or from.
- Specifically
- To effect by slow, stealthy, or insidious means: as, to worm one's way along.
- To work or act slowly, stealthily, or secretly.
- To move like a worm; go or advance as a worm; crawl or creep sinuously; wriggle; writhe; squirm: as, to worm along.
- To remove the charge, etc., from, as a gun, by means of a worm. See worm, n., 6 .
- Also many insect larvae
INSECT vs WORM: RELATED WORDS
- Biochem, Hexapod, Photoperiodism, Repellants, Bug, Cockroach, Entomology, Infestation, Arthropod, Mosquito, Pest, Beetle, Dirt ball, Louse, Worm
- Helminth, Parasitic, Maggot, Teredo, Bug, Virus, Dirt ball, Wreathe, Wrestle, Writhe, Wriggle, Squirm, Twist, Louse, Insect
INSECT vs WORM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Tent caterpillar, Chinch bug, Gypsy moth, Physiol, Hexapod, Bug, Cockroach, Entomology, Infestation, Arthropod, Mosquito, Pest, Beetle, Louse, Worm
- Monster, Pod, Helminth, Parasitic, Maggot, Teredo, Bug, Virus, Wreathe, Wrestle, Writhe, Squirm, Twist, Louse, Insect
INSECT vs WORM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
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- Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly.
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- When an insect crawls over diatomaceous earth, it scratches the insect cuticle and makes the insect vulnerable to desiccation.
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- Such compounds are mainly affecting the behavior of various insect pests via chemical signals which occur between insect and insect or plant and insect.
- Earth worm and silk worm production, and earth worm gathering.
- Bevel and Worm Gears Mechanical Engineering Design where D is the worm gear pitch diameter.
- By teaching others about worm composting, participants can become worm experts.
- This is possible because of the worm and worm wheel mechanism.
- Worm Defeat the Boss Worm without defeating any Small Worms.
- Scientific name for worm known as the pink soil worm.
- RING WORM A very popular style of worm.
- Therefore, if the worm is rotated, the worm gear can be caused to rotate due to the screw like action of the worm.
- When overhauling an actuator, the worm gear teeth should be examined for indications of misalignment between the worm and worm gear.
- Worm gears have the distinction that the relative motion between the worm and worm wheel is virtually all sliding, which generates considerable heat.
INSECT vs WORM: QUESTIONS
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- What is the speed transmission ratio of a worm and worm gear?
- What kind of worm is the zoom Magnum ultra vibration speed worm?