What is "worm"

Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. ['e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.]

1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.

   Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread.

2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.

3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.

4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.

5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
   --Thackeray.

6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]

7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang]
   --Mayhew.

8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.
   --Ld. Lytton.

9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.

10. (Zo["o]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw ( Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand. Archimedes screw, Compound screw, Foot screw, etc. See under Archimedes, Compound, Foot, etc. A screw loose, something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H. Martineau. Endless screw, or perpetual screw, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a worm. Lag screw. See under Lag. Micrometer screw, a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces. Right and left screw, a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. Screw alley. See Shaft alley, under Shaft. Screw bean. (Bot.)

    1. The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree ( Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians.

    2. The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. Screw bolt, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a key bolt. See 1st Bolt, 3. Screw box, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw. Screw dock. See under Dock. Screw engine, a marine engine for driving a screw propeller. Screw gear. See Spiral gear, under Spiral. Screw jack. Same as Jackscrew. Screw key, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner wrench. Screw machine.

       1. One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws.

       2. A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods. Screw pine (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus Pandanus, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves. Screw plate, a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws forming dies. Screw press, a press in which pressure is exerted by means of a screw. Screw propeller, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel propelled by a screw. Screw shell (Zo["o]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied genera. See Turritella. Screw steamer, a steamship propelled by a screw. Screw thread, the spiral rib which forms a screw. Screw stone (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite. Screw tree (Bot.), any plant of the genus Helicteres, consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs, with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled capsules; -- also called twisted-horn, and twisty. Screw valve, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a screw. Screw worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an American fly ( Compsomyia macellaria), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. Screw wrench.

          1. A wrench for turning a screw.

          2. A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw.

             To put the screws on or To put the screw on, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce.

             To put under the screw or To put under the screws, to subject to pressure; to force.

             Wood screw, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of Wood screw, under Wood.

"to move like a worm," c.1600, from worm (n.). In figurative senses attested from 1620s, suggesting patient, sinuous progress. Meaning "to free from worms" is from 1620s. Related: Wormed; worming.

Old English wurm, variant of wyrm "serpent, snake, dragon, reptile," also in later Old English "earthworm," from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German, German wurm, Old Frisian and Dutch worm, Old Norse ormr, Gothic waurms "serpent, worm"), from PIE *wrmi- "worm" (cognates: Greek rhomos, Latin vermis "worm," Old Russian vermie "insects," Lithuanian varmas "insect, gnat"), probably from root *wer- (3) "turn" (see versus).\n

\nThe ancient category of these was much more extensive than the modern, scientific, one and included serpents, scorpions, maggots, and the supposed causes of certain diseases. For substitution of -o- for -u-, see come. As an insult meaning "abject, miserable person" it dates from Old English. Worms "any disease arising from the presence of parasitic worms" is from late Old English. Can of worms figurative for "difficult problem" is from 1951, from the literal can of worms a fisherman might bring with him, on the image of something all tangled up.

n. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawl motion. 2 (label en intransitive figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means. 3 (label en transitive figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate. 4 To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by ''out''. 5 (label en transitive figuratively) To "worm out of", to "drag out of" (often: "drag every word out of someone"), to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly). Often combined with expressions such as "It's like pulling teeth" or "It's like get blood out of a stone". 6 (label en transitive nautical) To fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serve. 7 (label en transitive) To deworm an animal. 8 (label en intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground. 9 (label en 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. 10 (label en transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

v. 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" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, squirm, twist]

1. n. 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

2. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect [syn: louse, insect, dirt ball]

3. 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"

4. screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

The "worm" is a market research analysis tool developed by Roy Morgan Research (who called it "The Reactor"), with the purpose of gauging an audience's reaction to some visual stimuli over some time period. The name "worm" describes its visual appearance – as a line graph snaking up or down.

Each member of the audience firstly fills out a questionnaire, used to describe the composition of the audience. Then, each member is given a control device (such as a dial or keypad) with which they select their feelings towards the vision or stimuli (for example, whether they regard the comments currently being made by a speaker favourably or unfavourably). This dial is checked centrally three times per second, and as the audience reacts differently over time, the collective feelings of the audience are gathered.

The "worm" has been used in televised debates for Australian federal elections, including those between then Australian prime minister John Howard and then-leader of the opposition Kevin Rudd in 2007 and between prime minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott in 2010.

In the first UK general election debate on 15 April 2010 between Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Conservative leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, "the worm" was used in certain segments. A study published in March 2011 suggests that the worm may influence voters.

In New Zealand, the worm has been controversially credited with increasing the support for United Future leader Peter Dunne in the 2002 election.

Worm is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.

A worm is a device used to remove unspent powder bag remnants from a cannon or other piece of muzzle-loading field artillery. It usually took the form of a double corkscrew-shaped piece of iron on the end of a long pole that could be twisted down the barrel to pick up any debris left over from the previous firing of the weapon.

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A worm is an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal, most commonly the earthworm.

Worm, WORM or Worms, may also refer to:

WORM (1010 AM, Savannah's Pure Gold Station) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies music format. Licensed to Savannah, Tennessee, USA, the station is currently owned by Gerald W. Hunt.

Worm is a 2006 Russian drama film directed by Aleksei Muradov. It was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.

Worm is a 2013 American sci-fi/horror film directed by Doug Mallette and produced by Untrademarked Productions. Starring John Ferguson, Jes Mercer, and Shane O’Brien, the film was released by Synapse Films on August 12, 2015.

are the villains in the Japanese tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Kabuto. They are an alien life form that came from a meteor destroying the city district of Shibuya seven years prior to the series' timeline. However, the Worms known as Natives existed prior to the coming of the Shibuya Meteorite, through another meteorite that came 35 years ago. In the movie, a third meteor nearly hit the Earth, though thanks to Kabuto it was adverted and history was altered. This implies that meteors containing Worms are insolated and there are others.

The Worms were designed by , who also designed the Undead for Kamen Rider Blade, the Horrors in GARO and later created the Imagin for Kamen Rider Den-O. These designs were later detailed in .

Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no limbs. Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms), for the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus, and for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm), Lineus longissimus. Various types of worm occupy a small variety of parasitic niches, living inside the bodies of other animals. Free-living worm species do not live on land, but instead live in marine or freshwater environments, or underground by burrowing.

In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon ( vermes) used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non- arthropod invertebrate animals, and stems from the Old English word wyrm. Most animals called "worms" are invertebrates, but the term is also used for the amphibian caecilians and the slow worm Anguis, a legless burrowing lizard. Invertebrate animals commonly called "worms" include annelids ( earthworms), nematodes ( roundworms), platyhelminthes ( flatworms), marine polychaete worms ( bristle worms), marine nemertean worms (" bootlace worms"), marine Chaetognatha ( arrow worms), priapulid worms, and insect larvae such as grubs and maggots.

Worms may also be called helminths, particularly in medical terminology when referring to parasitic worms, especially the Nematoda (roundworms) and Cestoda (tapeworms) which reside in the intestines of their host. When an animal or human is said to "have worms", it means that it is infested with parasitic worms, typically roundworms or tapeworms.

WORM is a Rotterdam based non-profit foundation and a multi-media alternative cultural centre focused on experimental, new media art, avant-garde and underground art, primarily music and movies. WORM is funded by the Triodos Bank and part of the culture nota 2009-2012 from the Dutch government. The foundation has received the Pendrecht Culture Prize and its venue is part of the Rotterdam culture plan.

WORM organises festivals and concerts, movie nights, runs an independent record label, a radio station. Part of the organisation is also a media lab, a hackspace, and a music studio. The media lab and music studio both run free artist in residence programms for artists and experimental musicians. Experimental musician Lukas Simonis is the programmer of the artist in residence programm for the music studio. The studio has a large collection of vintage analogue synths such as the ARP 2500, ARP 2600, Serge synthesizer, EMS Synthi A, AS8899, EMS VCS 3 and Korg MS-20 inherited from the Centrum voor Electronische Muziek (CEM) and a collection of experimental musical instruments built by Yuri Landman. Artists that have been in residence at WORM were Tujiko Noriko, Toktek, Machinefabriek, Jørgen Teller, One Man Nation, Blevin Blectum, Kevin Blechdom, Joe Howe, Eugene Chadbourne, Lucas Crane, Jim Xentos, Knull, Ben Butler and Mousepad, Colin Black, Harry Taylor ( Action Beat), Stignoise, Hovatron, Martijn Comes, Danielle Lemaire and others.

Besides the venue and studio the foundation also has a shop with left field music, art house movies and books about subjects related to the cultural focus of the organisation.

WORM developed the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. The organisation co-operates closely with International Film Festival Rotterdam, Poetry International, Incubate, State-X New Forms, Museumnacht.

WORM was based at the Achterhaven till 2010. In 2011 it moved to the centre of Rotterdam and is currently located in the building formerly used as the Nederlands Fotomuseum (Dutch Photo Museum) at the Witte de Withstraat.

Worm, Worms or de Worms is the surname of:

Worm:

• Alfred Worm (1945–2007), Austrian investigative journalist, author and professor
• Erik Worm (1900-1962), Danish tennis player
• Ole Worm (1588–1655), Danish physician
• Ronald Worm (born 1953), German footballer
• Rutger Worm (born 1986), Dutch footballer
• Siri Worm (born 1992), Dutch footballer

Worms or de Worms:

• Solomon Benedict de Worms, 1st Baron de Worms (1801–1882), Austrian aristocrat, plantation owner in Ceylon, and stockbroker in London
  • George de Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms (1829-1902), Austrian aristocrat and English public official and banker; son of the above
    • Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms, 3rd Baron de Worms (1869-1938), Austrian aristocrat and English philatelist, son of George de Worms
      • Charles de Worms (1903–1979), English chemist and lepidopterist, son of Anthony de Worms
    • Percy de Worms (1873–1941), English aristocrat and philatelist, son of George de Worms
• Maurice Benedict de Worms (1805-1867), Austrian plantation owner in Ceylon, brother of Solomon de Worms
• Worms family, a European Jewish family
  • Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright (1840-1903), British politician
  • René Worms (1869-1926), a French auditor of the council of state
• Aaron Worms (1754-1836), chief rabbi of Metz and a Talmudist
• Jean Worms (1884–1943), French film actor