worms

Definition of worms in English English dictionary: A city of southwest Germany on the Rhine River north-northwest of Mannheim. Originally a Celtic settlement, it was the site of the Diet of Worms (1521) in which Martin Luther refused to recant his beliefs and was outlawed by the Roman Catholic Church. It is an industrial city. Population: 72,610; {i} type of legless invertebrate; type of intestinal parasite; City of s central west Germany, on the Rhine; An infestation where worms live as parasites in the human body; These programs spread in a computer network and, like viruses-"companions", don't change files or sectors on disks They penetrate the computer's memory from a computer network, calculate network addresses of other computers and send their own copies to these addresses Such "viruses" (Worms are not viruses in the strict sense) sometimes start files on the system disks, but can't apply themselves to computer resources (with the exception of main memory) generally; Plural of worm; Worms are like a viruses in that they try to copy (replicate) themselves over the network and onto another computer through an unprotected shared folder or directory The Loveletter virus is really a worm written in Visual Basic Script programming language and its filename ends in VBS This worm is included in an e-mail attachment with the filename LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU TXT vbs; Third-person singular simple present of to worm; A computer program that can make copies of itself Alternatively, on the Web, a worm is synonymous with a robot
woolly worms: plural form of woolly worm
WORM: Write Once Read Many, a type of disc drive. See write once
apple worms: plural form of apple worm
blood worms: plural form of blood worm
can of worms: A complex, troublesome situation arising when a decision or action produces considerable subsequent problems
If I give her a promotion which she doesn't deserve, it will open up a whole can of worms with the other employees.
can of worms: A troublesome situation; an issue whose resolution is difficult or contentious, but not necessarily complex
Calling her the greatest person who ever lived would definitely open a can of worms.
clam worms: plural form of clam worm
common glow-worms: plural form of common glow-worm
gummy worms: plural form of gummy worm
measuring worms: plural form of measuring worm
peacock worms: plural form of peacock worm
penis worms: plural form of penis worm
worm: To make (one's way) with a crawling motion
We wormed our way through the underbrush.
worm: To move with one's body dragging the ground
Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath.
worm: A self-replicating program that propagates widely through a network
worm: A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings
worm: A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum
worm: To work one's way by artful or devious means
worm: A contemptible or devious being
Don't try to run away, you little worm!.
worm: To fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serving
Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
worm: To deworm an animal
worm: To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate
He wormed his way into the organization.
worm: An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! — Richard III, William Shakespeare.
worm: To obtain information from someone through artful or devious means (usually used with out of)
I've got a awk'ard job - to try and worm something out of the barmaid.
worm: {n} an insect, grub, pipe, spiral thing, inward torment
worm: {v} to act slowly
a can of worms: (deyim) A complicated matter likely to prove awkward or embarrassing
open a can of worms: (deyim) Start a situation that will be terrible
open up a can of worms: (deyim) Start a situation that will be terrible
Concordat of Worms: (1122) Compromise between Pope Calixtus II and Emperor Henry V (r. 1106-25) to settle the Investiture Controversy, reached at Worms, Germany. It marked the end of the first phase of conflict between Rome and what was becoming the Holy Roman Empire and made a clear distinction between the spiritual side of a prelate's office and his position as a landed magnate and vassal of the crown. Bishops and abbots were to be chosen by the clergy, but the emperor was to decide contested elections. Those selected were to be invested first with the powers and privileges of their office as vassal (granted by the emperor) and then with their ecclesiastical powers and lands (granted by church authority)
Diet of Worms: Meeting of the Diet (assembly) of the Holy Roman Empire at Worms, Ger. , in 1521, where Martin Luther defended the principles of the Reformation. Luther had already been excommunicated by Pope Leo X, but Emperor Charles V granted him safe conduct to a hearing at the Diet. On April 17, 1521, Luther refused to recant his views. Disorder broke out, the emperor adjourned the proceedings, and Luther was obliged to go into hiding. In May the Diet issued the Edict of Worms, declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and banning his writings
Eleazar ben Judah of Worms: orig. Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymos born 1160, Mainz, Franconia died 1238, Worms German Jewish mystic and Talmudic scholar. His wife and daughters were killed by Crusaders in 1196, but he nevertheless continued to teach a doctrine of love of humanity. After studying with Judah ben Samuel, to whom he was related, he became a rabbi at Worms (1201). Eleazar attempted to unify the mysticism of the Kabbala with the Talmud. His greatest work was his ethical code, Rokeah (1505). He believed that God himself was unknowable but that the kavod, a ruling angel that was an emanation from God, was knowable. His writings are a major source of information on medieval Hasidism
WORM: (Computers) any type of storage medium that can only be written to once but can be read an unlimited number of times (such as a CD-ROM)
can of worms: any situation that creates more problems than existed beforehand
can of worms: a source of unpredictable trouble and complexity
can of worms: A source of unforeseen and troublesome complexity
drown some worms: (Slang) go fishing
food for worms: food that is eaten by worms; dead body, corpse
worm: Write-Once-Read-Many technology used in many applications for because of the integrity of the data and the accepted legal admissibility of files stored using the technology In the case of "Ablative" or "True" WORM, data written to a disk is actually etched into the surface of the platter creating a permanent record Another form, CCW WORM is based on Magneto/Optical technology CCW achieves the WORM characteristic through special MO media that signals the optical drive not to rewrite media sectors An advantage of CCW media is that it conforms to ISO standards, allowing it to be read with drives from any manufacturer adhering to the standard WORM records are unalterable with the exception of destroying the platter Legal documents, research information, historical records, etc , are all examples of information that require permanent storage
worm: To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm
worm: A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs
worm: A virus that replicates itself without human intervention If the victim has to open an e-mail attachment to get infected, it's a virus But if it scans for new victims and attacks by itself, it's a worm
worm: Computer program that copies itself into other host computers across a network In 1988 the Internet Worm infected several thousand hosts
worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel `The Shockwave Rider', via XEROX PARC] n 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 {cracker}s write worms Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T Morris's `Internet Worm' of 1988, a `benign' one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U S See also {cracker}, {RTM}, {Trojan horse}, {ice}, and {Great Worm, the}
worm: To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw
worm: Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw
worm: A program that infiltrates a computer system and copies itself many times, filling up memory and disk space and crashing the computer The most famous worm of all time was released accidentally by Robert Morris over the Internet and brought down whole sections of the net
worm: Same as Vermes
worm: A worm is a small animal with a long thin body, no bones and no legs
worm: To work slowly, gradually, and secretly
worm: If animals or people have worms, worms are living in their intestines
worm: of Worm gearing, below
worm: A self-replicating destructive program that stands alone and spreads itself through computer networks
worm: A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta
worm: An insect larva
worm: Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm The thread of a screw
worm: A dragon or mythological serpent
worm: a computer program which replicates itself and is self-propagating Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn in network environments Beware the Ides of March
worm: To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope
worm: A computer program which replicates itself and is self-propagating Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn in network environments Network worms were first defined by Shoch & Hupp of Xerox in ACM Communications (March 1982) The Internet worm of November 1988 is perhaps the most famous; it successfully propagated itself on over 6,000 systems across the Internet
worm: a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network; "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"
worm: The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space
worm: A worm is a program designed as a file that multiplies itself by sending itself to everyone listed in either your Outlook directory, OR autosends files to others on IRC and ICQ You can read more about it here on our Trojans, Viruses and Worms reference page
worm: 5 (b)
worm: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
worm: A computer program, which replicates itself and is self-propagating Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn in network environments Worms usually are designed to slow down a network or even crash it See also: Trojan Horse, Virus
worm: A self-replicating program that reproduces itself over a network The most famous worm is the one created by Robert Morris at Cornell that shut down many unix computers on the Internet in 1988 Currently making the rounds is a Windows worm named happy99 exe (or Trojan-Happy99 or I-Worm Happy) that masquerades as a fireworks show, replaces your wsock32 dll file, and sends copies of itself along with e-mail or news messages you post For more on this and how to remove it, see the Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center Happy99 Worm page See virus and Trojan horse
worm: A computer program that replicates itself and is self-propagating While viruses are designed to cause problems on a local system and are passed through boot sectors of disks and through files, worms are designed to thrive in network environments Network worms were first defined by Shoch & Hupp of Xerox in ACM Communications (March 1982) The most famous (or infamous) worm was the Internet Worm of November 1988 It successfully propagated itself on over 6,000 systems across the Internet
worm: See Worm, n
worm: If you say that someone is opening a can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something which is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and which might be better left alone. You've opened up a whole new can of worms here I think. We could have a whole debate on student loans and grants. Computer Science. write once, read many. write once, read many a CD on which information can be stored only once, but seen or used many times. Any of thousands of species of unrelated invertebrate animals that typically have a soft, slender, elongated body with no appendages. The major phyla are Platyhelminthes (flatworms), Annelida (annelids, or segmented worms), Nemertea (ribbon worms), Acanthocephala (spiny-headed worms), and Aschelminthes (nematodes and others). There are several minor phyla. Length ranges from microscopic (e.g., some aschelminths) to more than 100 ft (30 m) (some ribbon worms). Worms are found worldwide on land and in water. They may be parasitic or free-living and are important as soil conditioners, parasites, and a link in the food chain in all ecosystems. See also fluke, pinworm, polychaete, rotifer, tapeworm, tube worm. filarial worm guinea worm dragon worm medina worm horsehair worm gordian worm tube worm Eleazar ben Judah of Worms Worms Concordat of Worms Diet of
worm: a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
worm: is a self-contained computer program, or programs, that is able to spread functional copies of itself to other computer systems (usually via network connections) Unlike viruses, worms do not need to attach themselves to a host program to do damage There are two basic types of worms--host computer worms and network worms
worm: Similar to a virus in that it makes copies of itself, but differ in that it need not attach to particular files or sectors at all Once a worm is executed, it seeks other systems - rather than parts of systems - to infect, then copies its code to them
worm: Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm
worm: A being debased and despised
worm: A worm is a computer program that contains a virus which duplicates itself many times in a network
worm: of Still
worm: {f} creep, crawl (like a worm); squeeze cunningly; sneak (in or out); kill intestinal parasites
worm: To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out
worm: A computer program that replicates itself and is self-propagating Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn in network environments Network worms were first defined by Shoch & Hupp of Xerox in ACM Communications (March 1982) See also Worm, The (Great) Internet
worm: {i} type of legless invertebrate; servile person, "weasel"; screwing; computer virus which usually copies itself through a network and wastes resources or causes damage (Computers)
worm: Independent program that replicates from machine to machine across network connections, often-clogging networks and information systems as it spreads
worm: Independent program that replicates from machine to machine across network connections often clogging networks and information systems as it spreads
worm: A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms
worm: Write Once, Read Many An optical disc format than can be written to once, but read many times WORM systems are often used for backup and archiving of data Based on the Orange Book standard published by Philips
worm: A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like
worm: The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness
worm: Any annelid
worm: 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 screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network; "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"
worm: This is a type of virus that replicates itself over a computer network This almost always does something malicious, such as consuming computer resources and freezing up processes Similar to a virus, where infected computers spread the problem to all users associated with the computer (via email or internal network) Software such as Norton Antivirus prevent virii and worms and also help to clean infected files if they are suspect to these malicious programs Usually this will get on a computer without the user's knowledge The user will not find out generally until the program has run its course and done whatever bad things it had intended to do
worm: A computer program which replicates itself The Internet worm (see Chapter 8 1 [The Internet Worm], was perhaps the most famous; it successfully (and accidentally) duplicated itself on systems across the Internet
worm: disapproval If you say that someone is worming their way to success, or is worming their way into someone else's affection, you disapprove of the way that they are gradually making someone trust them or like them, often in order to deceive them or gain some advantage. She never misses a chance to worm her way into the public's hearts
worm: An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts ones mind with remorse
worm: If you worm an animal, you give it medicine in order to kill the worms that are living in its intestines. I worm all my birds in early spring All adult dogs are routinely wormed at least every six months
worm: screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
worm: Any helminth; an entozoön
worm: A computer program which replicates itself and is self- propogating Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn in network environments
worm: A program that replicates itself over a computer network and usually performs malicious actions, such as using up the computer's resources and possibly shutting the system down
worm: A computer program that replicates itself and is self-propagating Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn in network environments The Internet worm of November 1988 is perhaps the most famous

Turkish - English

Definition of worms in Turkish English dictionary
WORM: worm(write-once-read-many)

worms

Hyphenation

Worms

Turkish pronunciation

wırmz

Pronunciation

/ˈwərmz/ /ˈwɜrmz/

Etymology

[ 'w&rm ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English wyrm serpent, worm; akin to Old High German wurm serpent, worm, Latin vermis worm.