Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Worm"

  1. fishing
  2. wheel
  3. drives
  4. gear
  5. disks
  6. men
  7. seed
  8. muller
  9. gears
  10. tales

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. little
  2. small
  3. round
  4. poor
  5. earth
  6. female
  7. tape
  8. common
  9. red
  10. large

What Google Knows

Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and usually no eyes.

Related Definition

  1. worm:

    n A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.

    n More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.

    n (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.

    n (fantasy, science fiction) Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.

    n A contemptible or devious being.

    n (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.

    n (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.

    n Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

    n A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

    n The spiral wire of a corkscrew.

    n (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.

    n The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.

    n A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.

    n (obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.

    n (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.

    n (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.

    n (anatomy) The lytta.

    n (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.

    v (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

    v (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.

    v (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.

    v (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

    v (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.

    v (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).

    v (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.

    v (transitive) To deworm (an animal).

    v (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.

    v (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

    n (computing) Write once read many (or read multiple), with regards to a disc medium. See write once.

    n A surname.


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