• 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
• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
• a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
• screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
verb
• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
• A type of process for setting concrete which uses moveable forms that are moved and reused once the concrete is stiff enough to retain its shape under its own weight.
• A moveable form used when setting concrete using the slipform technique.
verb
• To use the slipform technique when creating a concrete structure.
• A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted.
• (originally United States) Short for corn earworm (“larva of the moths Helicoverpa zea (syn. Heliothis zea) and Helicoverpa armigera, which are agricultural pests”).
• the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
• a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
• a perceptual structure
• any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
• alternative names for the body of a human being
• the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
• the visual appearance of something or someone
• a printed document with spaces in which to write
• (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
• an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
• a particular mode in which something is manifested
• (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
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