1. имя существительное 1) а) червяк, червь б) глист в) гусеница, личинка 2) червь, ничтожество (о человеке) 3) [технический термин] а) червяк, червячный винт б) шнек Например: to have a worm in one's tongue — ворчать, быть сварливым I am a worm today. — Мне сегодня не по себе. Even a worm will turn. [пословица] — Всякому терпению приходит конец. 2. глагол 1) ползти; вползать, продираться Синоним(ы): creep 2) а) гнать глистов б) очищать от червей 3) копать, собирать червей 4) делать винтовую нарезку Например: to worm oneself into somebody's confidence — втереться в доверие к кому-либо to worm oneself into somebody's favour / graces — подольщаться
(Write Once/Read Many) [компакт-диск] с однократной записью и многократным считыванием тип компакт-диска, данные с которого после записи можно только считывать, но нельзя стереть или перезаписать (WORM drive)
= worm program "червь" один из видов вредоносного ПО (malware); программа, тиражирующая себя (т. е. самостоятельно распространяющаяся) по узлам компьютерных сетей. Может содержать вирус, бактерию или другую вредоносную программу, а может и выполнять полезные функции смотри ethical worm, Смотри также: cracker, Trojan horse, virus
1) змеевик 2) червь 3) личинка вредителя 4) червячный механизм, червяк; червячнвый 5) шнек
1) червяк; шнек 2) змеевик 3) архимедов винт 4) винтовой конвейер
I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wyrm serpent, worm; akin to Old High German wurm serpent, worm, Latin vermis worm 1. a. earthworm; broadly an annelid worm b. any of numerous relatively small elongated usually naked and soft-bodied animals (as a grub, pinworm, tapeworm, shipworm, or slowworm) 2. a. a human being who is an object of contempt, loathing, or pity; wretch b. something that torments or devours from within 3. archaic snake, serpent 4. helminthiasis — usually used in plural 5. something (as a mechanical device) spiral or vermiculate in form or appearance: as a. the thread of a screw b. a short revolving screw whose threads gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or a rack c. Archimedes' screw; also a conveyor working on the principle of such a screw 6. a usually small self-contained and self-replicating computer program that invades computers on a network and usually performs a destructive action • wormlike adjective II. verb intransitive verb to move or proceed sinuously or insidiously transitive verb 1. a. to proceed or make (one's way) insidiously or deviously Example: worm their way into positions of power — Bill Franzen b. to insinuate or introduce (oneself) by devious or subtle means c. to cause to move or proceed in or as if in the manner of a worm 2. to wind rope or yarn spirally round and between the strands of (a cable or rope) before serving 3. to obtain or extract by artful or insidious questioning or by pleading, asking, or persuading — usually used with out of Example: finally wormed the truth out of him 4. to treat (an animal) with a drug to destroy or expel parasitic worms
(From "Tapeworm" in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC) A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was the Great Worm. Compare Trojan horse.