worm

Pronunciation: [wә:m]

Average Rank: 10917

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 虫, 蠕虫, 小人物, 螺纹, 蜗杆 vi. 蠕行, 慢慢前进 vt. 使蠕行, 慢慢地走, 除虫 [计] 蠕虫病毒

Detailed Explanations:
  • 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
  • n. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
  • n. a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
  • n. screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl
Word Forms:
Plural: worms
Past: wormed
Present Participle: worming
Past Participle: wormed
3rd Person: worms

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#5668

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 43.3% (Top 43.3% most frequent)
43.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#7083

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 29.2% (Top 29.2% most frequent)
29.2%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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