INSECTS vs WORM: NOUN
- Plural form of insect.
- A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- Small air-breathing arthropod
- Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft elongated body.
- Any of various other animals, such as a shipworm or a slowworm, having a long slender limbless body.
- Something, such as the thread of a screw or the spiral condenser in a still, that resembles a worm in form or appearance.
- The spirally threaded shaft of a worm gear.
- An insidiously tormenting or devouring force.
- A person regarded as pitiable or contemptible.
- Infestation of the intestines or other parts of the body with parasitic worms; helminthiasis.
- A malicious program that replicates itself until it fills all of the storage space on a drive or network.
- Any of various invertebrates, especially an annelid, flatworm, nematode, or nemertean, having a long, flexible, rounded or flattened body, often without obvious appendages.
- 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
- 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.
- A myriapod; a contiped or milleped; a gally-worm.
- Some small or slender acarine or mite, or its larva, as the worm found in sebaceous follicles. See comedo and Demodex.
- One of several long slender vermiform echinoderms, as some holothurians and related forms. See Vermiformia, and cuts under Synapta and trepang.
- 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.
- Any annelid, as the earthworm, lobworm or lugworm, leech, etc. See the distinctive names.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- One of some vermiform mollusks, as a teredo or shipworm, or a wormshell. See cuts under shipworm and Vermetus.
INSECTS vs WORM: VERB
- N/A
- To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
INSECTS vs WORM: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To make one's way by artful or devious means.
- To wrap yarn or twine spirally around (rope).
- To cure of intestinal worms.
- 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 move in a manner suggestive of a worm.
INSECTS vs WORM: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- To move like a worm; go or advance as a worm; crawl or creep sinuously; wriggle; writhe; squirm: as, to worm along.
- To work or act slowly, stealthily, or secretly.
- To effect by slow, stealthy, or insidious means: as, to worm one's way along.
- Specifically
- To extract, remove, expel, or take away by underhand means persistently continued: generally with out or from.
- To subject to a stealthy process of ferreting out one's secrets or private affairs; play the spy upon.
- To free from worms.
- To remove the charge, etc., from, as a gun, by means of a worm. See worm, n., 6 .
- 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.
- Also many insect larvae
INSECTS vs WORM: RELATED WORDS
- Outbreaks, Bites, Bug, Worms, Entomology, Species, Bugs, Mosquitoes, Ants, Bees, Beetles, Pests, Dirt ball, Louse, Worm
- Helminth, Parasitic, Maggot, Teredo, Bug, Virus, Dirt ball, Wreathe, Wrestle, Writhe, Wriggle, Squirm, Twist, Louse, Insect
INSECTS vs WORM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Whitefly, Leafhoppers, Arthropods, Rodents, Larvae, Fungi, Aphids, Caterpillars, Bug, Entomology, Species, Ants, Bees, Louse, Worm
- Monster, Pod, Helminth, Parasitic, Maggot, Teredo, Bug, Virus, Wreathe, Wrestle, Writhe, Squirm, Twist, Louse, Insect
INSECTS vs WORM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- INSECTS AND HUMAN DECOMPOSITION Apart from the bacteria and fungi, insects are the most important processors of dead animal remains.
- However, evaluating the effect of several insects on fruit and seed production is difficult in plants visited by a variety of insects.
- Birds that eat forbidden items like insects are only permitted if insects are not a major part of their diet.
- Although we think of some insects as pests, all kinds of insects have an important role in our ecosystem.
- Although a common staghorn fern rarely attracts insects, occasionally it may suffer from an infestation by mealy bugs or scale insects.
- Common characteristics of insects and if insects help or harm US explains that living organisms Change slowly over.
- KIMMINS: So, when you say insects, the first thing I want to know is what kind of insects?
- Insects Beneficial insects are a natural way to fight insect pests and protect our environment.
- Many types of stinging insects, such as yellow jackets, are social insects.
- Another feature that identifies many insects is that adult insects have wings, though not all winged insects fly.
- 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.
INSECTS vs WORM: QUESTIONS
- What makes mosquitoes different from other insects?
- How effective are synthetic insecticides against insects?
- How do stick insects reproduce without fertilization?
- Do insects exhibit positive or negative phototaxis?
- Are scale insects vulnerable to contact insecticides?
- Do insects on hummingbird feeders harm hummingbirds?
- Can lemongrass regulate neuroreceptor activity in insects?
- What determines herbivore fecundity in herbivorous insects?
- Who are the 5 harmful insects and 5 Useful insects?
- How are water stick insects and walking stick insects related?
- What is the best bedding material for worm composting?
- What is the global incidence of Guinea worm disease?
- Does deworming reduce worm loads and improve life outcomes?
- How much does worm castings organic fertilizer cost?
- What are the applications of tungsten worm weights?
- Apa perbedaan antara virus, worm, dan Trojan horse?
- What programming language was the Sobig worm written?
- Do worm faecal egg counts underestimate intestinal worm burden in adult animals?
- What is the speed transmission ratio of a worm and worm gear?
- What kind of worm is the zoom Magnum ultra vibration speed worm?