Worm

Definitions: Worm

Worm

Noun

1. 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. Has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect.

3. Screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack.

Verb

1. Move with slow, sinuous movements.

2. To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (esp. when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort." "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace.".

Date "worm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Worm n. [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 Robert T. Morris's Great 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. Source: Jargon File.
Bible	Worm (1.) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. (2.) The manna bred worms (tola'im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these words refer to caterpillars or larvae, which feed on corrupting matter. These two Hebrew words appear to be interchangeable (Job 25:6; Isa. 14:11). Tola'im in some places denotes the caterpillar (Deut. 28:39; Jonah 4:7), and rimmah, the larvae, as bred from putridity (Job 17:14; 21:26; 24:20). In Micah 7:17, where it is said, "They shall move out of their holes like worms," perhaps serpents or "creeping things," or as in the Revised Version, "crawling things," are meant. The word is used figuratively in Job 25:6; Ps. 22:6; Isa. 41:14; Mark 9:44, 46, 48; Isa. 66:24. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Census	(Write-Once, Read-Many) A storage device such as an optical disk, that can be written (recorded) once and read many times. (references)
Chemical Industry	The screw which forces the plastic material through the die. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Worm To have a worm in one's tongue. To be cantankerous; to snarl and bite like a mad dog. There is one easy artifice That seldom has been known to miss- To snarl at all things right or wrong. Like a mad dog that has a worm in's tongue." Samuel Butler: Upon Modern Critics. To worm out information. To elicit information indirectly and piecemeal. To worm oneself into another's favour. To insinuate oneself in an underhand manner into the good graces of another person. A worm is a spiral instrument resembling a double corkscrew, used for drawing wads and cartridges from cannon, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	A spiral tool, shaped like a carpenter's wood-boring auger, with the bottom end shaped like the cutting end of a diamond point or mud bit. The tool is rotated inside a casing to loosen and clean out debris or to loosen and drill through tough clay at the bottom of a borehole. Alsocalled worm auger; worm-type auger. (references)
Physics	The driving screw of a worm gearing. Source: European Union. (references)
	Write-Once-Read-Many. A CD-ROM is a typical WORM medium: the CD-ROM is written once when it is etched and it cannot be written to again. However, it can be read any number of times. (references)
Public Administration	The European "snake" is the agreement between five members of the EEC to maintain their respective currencies within certain agreed limits. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	WORM. To worm out; to obtain the knowledge of a secret by craft, also to undermine or supplant. He is gone to the diet of worms; he is dead and buried, or gone to Rothisbone. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

WORM means Write Once, Read Many. It is sometimes used when discussing computer storage media that can be written to once, but read from multiple times. Examples of such storage media are CD-R and DVD-R.

Paper has for centuries been a WORM storage medium avant la lettre.

WORM should not be confused with worm (not in capitals) (a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus).This article is about animals known as worms. There are also computer worms, and the dragons known as wyrms, sometimes spelt this way. Ringworm, so-called, is a fungous disease of the skin. A worm is any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animals. The most famous is the earthworm, a member of phylum Annelida, but there are hundreds of thousands of different species that live in a wide variety of habitats other than soil.

Originally, the word referred to any creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, such as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. Later this definition was narrowed to the modern definition which still includes several different animal groups. Major phyla include:

Annelida (segmented worms)
Sipuncula (peanut worms)
Onychophora (velvet worms)
Acanthocephala (spiny-headed worms)
Nematoda (roundworms)
Nematomorpha (horsehair worms)
Nemertea (ribbonworms)
Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
Gnathostomulida (jaw worms)
Chaetognatha (arrow worms)

Some other invertebrate groups may be considered worms. Also, many insect larvae are known as worms, though they are not in a technical sense.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
WORM	English	Write Once Read Many	Abbreviation
WORM	French	Inscriptible une seule fois	Computing
WORM	Italian	Disco ottico a registrazione e lettura multipla	Abbreviation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Worm

Synonyms: dirt ball (n), insect (n), louse (n), squirm (v), twist (v), wreathe (v), wrestle (v), wriggle (v), writhe (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Animal	Mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.
Bane	Rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper; (evil doer); demon.
Convolution	Coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone.
Discovery	Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.
Hell	Hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies.
Information	Magnetic media, paper medium, optical media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM.
Ingress	Verb: have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into.
Interposition	Put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in, worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject, intercalate, interpolate, interline, interleave, intersperse, interweave, interlard, interdigitate, sandwich in, fit in, squeeze in; let in, dovetail, splice, mortise; insinuate, smuggle; infiltrate, ingrain.
Littleness	Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.
Love	Get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself; propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set one's cap at, flirt.
Pain	Cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker; (bane); scorpion; (evil doer); dagger; (arms); scourge; (instrument of punishment); carking care, canker worm of care.
Passage	Verb: pass, pass through; perforate; (hole); penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.
Record	Compact disk; floppy disk, diskette; hard disk, Winchester disk; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM.
Slowness	Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	In a past life this worm could have been your mother. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm! (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Oh you're a worm, aren't you? (Labyrinth; writing credit: Dennis Lee; Jim Henson) At least we're all bipeds, which is more than I can say about Ronnie the worm boy. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Enter Errol Flynn here, whose conscience will not allow him to either swash or buckle her, but since hubby is now worm food, I'm guessing all bets are off, mmmmhmmmm? (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)
Lyrics	You know she wiggles like a glow worm, (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) He can't satisfy you with his little worm, ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)
Clever	The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. (references; author: unknown) God creates a worm for every bird, but He does not throw it in the nest. (references; author: unknown) No one should live by the early bird policy without finding out whether he classifies as a bird or a worm. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	The Private Life of a Silk Worm (1950) Worm Movie (1985) The Worm Eaters (1977)
Song Titles	Funky Worm (performing artist: Ohio Players)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Silk Worm Cocoons and Silk Waste in N. America & Caribbean (reference) The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Silk Worm Cocoons and Silk Waste (reference) The 2003 World Forecasts of Silk Worm Cocoons and Silk Waste Export Supplies (reference) The World Market for Silk Worm Cocoons and Silk Waste: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Four Pups and a Worm (reference) The Witches of Worm (reference) The Worm Book: The Complete Guide to Worms in Your Garden (reference) The Worm Tunnel: A Finnegan Zwake Mystery (Finnegan Zwake Mystery) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Worm Eaters (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Independent Worm Saloon (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Hewlett Packard Worm Optical Disk 1.3Gb 1024Kb Format Sector (Media Only) (reference) Verbatim 5.25 8X Cc Worm Optical 5.2GB 2048B/S 1-Pack (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Skil HD77M-22 Mag 77 7-1/4" Worm Drive Circular Saw with Bag (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	This schistosome parasite enters the body through the skin of persons coming in contact with infested waters. The adult worm lives in the veins of its host. The parasite is magnified x256 in this photograph. Credit: Bruce Wetzel (photographer). Harry Schaefer (phot.		This helminth nematode parasite, also known as guinea worm, is gradually withdrawn from the body by winding the stick. Credit: CDC.
	Emergence of mature worm through skin of leg, causing severe local pain. Credit: CDC.		"Swimming Sphere Worm" (movie) by Brandon Enright.
	Feather duster worms, a type of annelid worm, and more specifically, tube- dwelling polychaete worms. The "arms" are actually tentacles or "radioles" at the anterior end of the worm. Most of the worms' bodies are hidden within the tubes they have constructed. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Close up of worm tubes, sometimes the most prominent structures on sandy bottom. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).
	Serpulid sp. polychaete worm - note coral polyps on massive coral head. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.		Sabellid worm in parchment tube. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.
	Polychaete worm, closeup of head region. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.		The Christmas tree worm - Spirobranchus giganteus seen here on Elbow Reef. Credit: Sanctuaries.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Emily Dickinson	Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne	Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
	Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
P. D. James	God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The first sting inflicted by this cruel worm will be the memory of past pleasures.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	I think that I may warrant you one worm to every three sods you turn up, if you look well in among the roots of the grass, as if you were weeding.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		An adult worm lives for about 7 years. (references)
		The third most common round worm of humans. (references)
		In 1998, 78,338 cases of Guinea worm were reported. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Elizabeth Taylor	Who is married to the president's daughter, who's expected to be somebody, not just a nobody, a book worm who is so complacent that doesn't have the guts to make anybody proud of them.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Worm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.59% of the time. "Worm" is used about 477 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.59%	433	13,273
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.97%	19	80,337
Noun (proper)	2.93%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.88%	9	117,287
Noun (common)	0.63%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	477	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "worm" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Worm	Last name	1,000	14,143
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "worm".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Tola	N/A	Biblical	Worm
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "worm": annelid worm ♦ Apple worm ♦ army worm ♦ Basket worm ♦ beard worm ♦ Belly worm ♦ bladder worm ♦ blind worm ♦ Brine worm ♦ Cabbage worm ♦ caddice worm ♦ caddis worm ♦ canker worm of care ♦ case worm ♦ Clover worm ♦ corn worm ♦ Cotton worm ♦ cranberry worm ♦ Currant worm ♦ Cystic worm ♦ dew worm ♦ fishing worm ♦ Flesh worm ♦ froth worm ♦ Fruit worm ♦ glow worm ♦ Gold worm ♦ Gooseberry worm ♦ Grain worm ♦ Grape worm ♦ great Worm ♦ Grugru worm ♦ Guinea worm ♦ Hair worm ♦ Horsehair worm ♦ hourglass worm gearing ♦ ice worm ♦ internet Worm ♦ Intestinal worm ♦ Juniper worm ♦ macaw worm fly ♦ marsh worm ♦ maw worm ♦ meal worm ♦ measuring worm ♦ nematode worm ♦ oligochaete worm ♦ palisade worm ♦ palm worm ♦ palmer worm ♦ palolo worm ♦ parasitic worm ♦ parasitical worm ♦ Passing a worm ♦ peanut worm ♦ phlox worm ♦ polychaete worm ♦ polychete worm ♦ potato worm ♦ proboscis worm ♦ railroad worm ♦ rain worm ♦ red worm ♦ ribbon worm ♦ Ribborn worm ♦ ringed worm ♦ screw worm ♦ screw worm fly ♦ Screw Worm Infection ♦ seat worm ♦ segmented worm ♦ slow worm ♦ southern army worm ♦ spot worm ♦ star worm ♦ stomach worm ♦ strawberry worm ♦ Tank worm ♦ the early bird catches the worm ♦ Timber worm ♦ To worm one's self into ♦ Tobacco worm ♦ tomato worm ♦ tongue worm ♦ trematode worm ♦ trip worm ♦ Truffle worm ♦ velvet worm ♦ vinegar worm ♦ western grape root worm ♦ wire worm ♦ wood worm ♦ worm a secret out of smb. ♦ worm abscess ♦ worm drive ♦ worm family ♦ worm fence ♦ worm gear ♦ worm gearing ♦ worm gears ♦ worm genus. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "worm": worm-and-sector, worm-cake, worm-cakes, worm-dirt, worm-eaten, Worm-eatenness, worm-fishing, worm-gears, worm-haunted, worm-hole, worm-holes, worm-hunt, worm-killing, worm-like, worm-lion, worm-lions, worm-out, worm-poor, worm-powder, Worm-runners, worm-screw, worm-seed, worm-seeds, worm-shaped, Worm-shell, worm-sort, worm-wheel.
	Ending with "worm": glow-worm, screw-worm, slow-worm.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "worm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		wurm. (various references)

Albanian		zhvat (bleed, cadge, claw back, coax, devour, extort, filch, fleece, hog, Rob, spoil, squeeze, Winkle, wrest), vidë, rra, krimb (honeycomb, maggot), karrem (bait, carrot, decoy, lure, troll), i mjerë (abject, crummy, desolate, dismal, forlorn, ill fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, lowlife, miserable, paltry, penurious, pimping, piteous, sorry, unhappy, unlucky), futem (affiliate, be propagated, break in, dive, drive into, enter, get into, go in, interfere, join, join in, launch, lend oneself to, penetrate, plough into, plunge, sink in, slide, start, stuff), depërtoj (break through, elbow, filter, infiltrate, needle, penetrate, perforate, permeate, seep, soak, thread), çaj (break, char, cleave, cut, dissect, fissure, forge, impale, open, pink, puncture, push through, slash, slit, split, tea, tear). (various references)

Arabic		‏تملص (back out of, duck, elude, elusion, evade, evasion, furtiveness, hedge, shrink, shuffle off, swing the lead, wriggle), ‏تمعج كالديدان, ‏أفعى (adder, boa, serpent, snake), ‏شىء لولبي دودي الشكل, ‏شخص جدير بالإزدراء (buzzard, hound, stinkard, swine), ‏دودة (insect), ‏دود (be warm). (various references)

Basque		har. (various references)

Bulgarian		противно същество, изчоплям, презряно същество, промъквам се бавно, промъквам се с усилие, промъквам се търпеливо, провирам се бавно, измъквам (disentangle, drag out, drag up, extract, extricate, ferret out, finagle, fish out, get away, mulct, pry, rip out, rout up, rummage out, shake down, slip away, tap, wheedle), провирам се търпеливо, червячен вал, пълзя като червей, нещо което гризе човека отвътре, връзка под езика на куче, глист (helminth), червей, червяк, провирам се с усилие. (various references)

Chinese		� �虫 . (various references)

Cornish		prýf, kenak. (various references)

Czech		ubožák (wretch), lézt (climb, crawl, sprawl), kroutit se jako èerv, hlísty, èerv (case worm, hair-worm, maggot), šnek (scroll, snail). (various references)

Danish		orm. (various references)

Dutch		worm (earthworm), wurm. (various references)

Esperanto		vermo. (various references)

Faeroese		ormur (grub, larva, serpent, snake). (various references)

Farsi		مارپیچ کردن , مار (Serpent), کرم (Cream, Magneficence, Munificence), لولیدن (Sniggle, Squiggle, Squirm, Wiggle, Wriggle), سوسمار (Crocodile, Lizard), خزیدن (Crawl, Creep, Glide, Grovel, Ramp, Slime, Slither), خزنده (Crawly, Creeper). (various references)

Finnish		mato (maggot). (various references)

French		ver. (various references)

Frisian		wjirm. (various references)

German		Wurm (maggot, mite, snake), Schnecke (auger, cochlea, endless screw, escargot, scroll, slug, snail, spiral staircase, volute). (various references)

Greek		σκουλήκι (grubby). (various references)

Hebrew		לזחול (crawl, creep, cringe), ל�"ז�"ח�', תולעת (maggot), תברי�' (screwthread, thread), חלזון (gastropod, slug, snail), � בז�" (cad, contemptible, despicable, despised, mean, mean-spirited, measly, nasty, ornery, scamp, shameful, sordid, villain, wretched). (various references)

Hungarian		kukac (maggot, mite, weenie), féreg (canker, insect, maggot, vermin). (various references)

Indonesian		ulat (catterpilar, maggot), cacing (maggot). (various references)

Italian		verme (maggot), baco (maggot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		虫螻 (insect), ワープロ馬鹿 (business shirt, dead silence after a joke falls flat, food wagon service, multi-national enterprise, news program, shirt, someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer, table-side service, talk and varietyshow, vaccine, vagina, vaseline, wacoal, Wagner, wagon, wagon sale, Waikiki, warlock, washer, Washington, Washington Post, WASP, watt, wax, wide, wide-angle lens, wide-band, wife, wild, wild pitch, windshield wipers, windup, wine, wine color, wine glass, wine list, wine red, winecooler, winery, wipe, wipe in, wipe out, wire, wire glass, wired, wireless, wireless mike, wire-wrapping, wise, wivern, working holiday, workshop, World, world class, World Cup, world enterprise, World Games, World Series, wow, wow and flutter, Wyoming, wyvern). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ワー� , むしけら (insect). (various references)

Korean		벌� � (bug, WORMS). (various references)

Manx		tayrneyder (drawer, puller, tractor), beishteig (coil, crawler, creepy-crawly), beisht (beast, monster, toad, toad of person). (various references)

Maya		kaan (hammock, yellow). (various references)

Occitan		vèrm. (various references)

Papago		kudut. (various references)

Papiamen		bichi (caterpillar). (various references)

Pig Latin		ormway

Portuguese		verme (grub, helmsman, local, maggot), bicho (animal, bug, grub). (various references)

Romanian		vierme intestinal (helminth, maw worm), vierme (creeper, gentle, grub, insect, maggot), serpentinã de alambic, se strecura (creep, edge, filter, glide, horn, infiltrate, steal, strain, worm one's way, worm oneself, wriggle oneself into), pãtrunde cu greu (struggle through, work), melc (slug, snail, worm-screw), curãţa o armã cu peria, curãţa de viermi, şurub fãrã sfârşit. (various references)

Romansch		verm. (various references)

Romany		tsirmoo. (various references)

Russian		червячный винт, червячный, червяк (angleworm, caterpillar, earthworm), шнек (feed-screw, screw), глист (helminth, hookworm), выпытать, вползать, бесконечный винт (hob), проникать (come through, penetrate, permeate, pervade), ползти (crawl). (various references)

Scottish		cruimh (a worm). (various references)

Sepedi		seboko. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		krišom ostvariti, kao crv, glista (lobworm), crv (maggot, muckworm). (various references)

Shona		honye. (various references)

Sicilian		vermi. (various references)

Spanish		gusano (caterpillar, earthworm, grub, maggot). (various references)

Sranan		woron (caterpillar). (various references)

Swedish		mask (caterpillar, disguise, finesse, grub, guise, maggot, mask, rainworm, veneer). (various references)

Tagalog		buláti, úod. (various references)

Turkish		solucan (dew worm, earthworm), kurt (borer, caterpillar, cestode, cestoid, gadgety, gnawing, hand, hard boiled, helminth, wolf). (various references)

Turkmen		gurt (wolf), gurзuk. (various references)

Ukranian		уповзати, черв'як, шнек (auger), гусінь (caterpillar), гусениця (adapter), гнати глистів, глист (helminth), очищати від черв'яків, проникати (come through, elbow, leak in, penetrate, perforate, permeate, seep, shuffle in, strike, work in), повзти (creep, ramp, snake, warp), плазун (crawler, creeper, reptile, reptilian). (various references)

Vietnamese		sâu (profound, vermin), người đáng khinh (sneak, toad, yellow dog), đ�" giun dế hôm nay tôi không được khoẻ con giun xéo lắm cũng quằn sự cắn rứt của lương tâm. (various references)

Welsh		pryfyn, pryf (insect, vermin), llyngyren, abwyd (bait, earthworm). (various references)

Yucatec		nook'ol. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	tul. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vermem, vermes, vermibus, vermis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 9, Verse 48
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Opou o skwlhx autwn ou teleuta kai to pur ou sbennutai
Latin	405	Vulgate	Omnis enim igne sallietur et omnis victima sallietur
Old English	990	West Saxon	þær heora wyrm ne swelt. ne fer nebeoð acwenced.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And euery man schal be saltid with fier, and euery slayn sacrifice schal be maad sauery with salt.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Where there worme dyeth not and the fyre never goeth oute.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 9, Verse 48
Cebuano	diin ang ilang ulod dili mamatay, ug ang kalayo dili pagapalongon.
Croatian	gdje crv njihov ne gine niti se oganj gasi.
Danish	hvor deres Orm ikke dør, og Ilden ikke udslukkes.
Dutch	Waar hun worm niet sterft, en het vuur niet uitgeblust wordt.
Finnish	Suola on hyvä; mutta jos suola käy suolattomaksi, millä te sen maustatte? Olkoon teillä suola itsessänne, ja pitäkää keskenänne rauha."
Gaelic	Far nach basaich a chruimh aca, `S nach smalar an teine.
German	da ihr Wurm nicht stirbt ihr Feuer nicht verlöscht.
Haitian Creole	La, dife a ansanm ak vè k'ap manje kadav yo pa janm mouri.
Hungarian	A hol az õ férgök meg nem hal, és tüzök el nem aluszik.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Di sana api tidak bisa padam dan ulat tidak bisa mati.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	di tempat ulatnya pun tiada mati, dan apinya juga tiada terpadam.
Italian	dove il loro verme non muore e il fuoco non si estingue.
Latvian	Jo ikviens ugunî taps sâlîts, un katrs upuris tiks sâlî sâlîts.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
book worm	7,640	worm travel	166
ring worm	5,544	worm farming	163
worm	3,988	worm virus	158
book game worm	2,638	arrogant worm	139
worm armageddon	1,155	worm armageddon download	137
tape worm	942	cat worm	134
ring worm picture	521	worm download	130
worm world party	508	worm picture	129
pin worm	459	ring worm cure	129
worm 2	383	ring worm dog	121
book worm deluxe	364	meal worm	116
ring worm treatment	294	worm parasite	114
game worm	290	grub worm	113
dog worm	237	symptom of ring worm	109
worm farm	219	bugbear worm	103
bitch book worm	216	worm in dog	101
book game worm yahoo	205	army worm	100
round worm	204	cut worm	98
hook worm	180	book worm yahoo	94
heart worm	166	intestinal worm	93
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Worm

Definitions: Worm

Worm

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