Usually means: Invertebrate animal with elongated, soft body.
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We found 79 dictionaries that define the word worm:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. worm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. worm: Merriam-Webster
  3. WORM, worm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. WORM, worm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. worm: Collins English Dictionary
  6. worm: Vocabulary.com
  7. Worm, worm: Wordnik
  8. worm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WORM, worm: Wiktionary
  10. worm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. worm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. worm: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. WORM: Dictionary.com
  14. worm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. worm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Worm (album), The Worm (basketball player), The Worm, The worm (dance move), WORM (AM), WORM (Rotterdam), Worm (Dungeons & Dragons), Worm (Dungeons and Dragons), Worm (artillery), Worm (computing), Worm (dance move), Worm (disambiguation), Worm (dragon), Worm (marketing), Worm (surname), Worm (web serial), Worm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Worm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. worm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. worm: Rhymezone
  20. Worm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. worm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. WORM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Worm: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. worm: FreeDictionary.org
  25. worm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. WORM: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. worm: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. WORM: Multimedia Glossary
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  6. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Worm: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms
  2. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. worm: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. WORM, worm: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. worm: Netlingo
  4. WORM, worm: CCI Computer
  5. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  6. worm: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  7. Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
  8. Worm: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  9. Worm: ILC Internet Terms
  10. Webopedia (No longer online)
  11. worm: Hacking Lexicon
  12. Technopedia (No longer online)
  13. Worm (animal), worm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Worm: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Worm (animal), worm: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WORM: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. worm: Idioms
  5. worm: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Worm: Easton Bible
  2. Worm: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Worm: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. worm, worm: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Worm: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. W.O.R.M, Worm, the worm: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extreme Martial Arts Glosary (No longer online)

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. worm: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. WORM: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  7. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  10. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  11. Worm: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
noun:  More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
noun:  (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.
noun:  (fantasy, science fiction) Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
noun:  A contemptible or devious being.
noun:  (computing) A self-replicating malware that propagates through a network.
noun:  (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
noun:  Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
noun:  A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
noun:  The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
noun:  (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
noun:  The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
noun:  A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
noun:  (archaic or poetic) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
noun:  (informal or poetic) A maggot.
noun:  (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
noun:  (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
noun:  (anatomy) The lytta.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
verb:  (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
verb:  (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
verb:  (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).
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
verb:  (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (computing, computer hardware) Initialism of write once, read many.

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