What is the meaning of worm?

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.
- synonyms: louse, insect, dirt ball
A software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network.
- usage: "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"
Screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack.

To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling. )
- usage: "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
- synonyms: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, squirm, twist

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