different between hydra vs worm

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

After the Hydra, from Greek mythology, which grew two new heads every time one of its heads was cut off. The first sense alludes to the budding method of asexual reproduction that the hydra practices, similar to growing new heads. The second sense refers to how the creature could not be killed by a swift, decisive solution (in contrast to a Gordian knot).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?'dr?, IPA^(key): /?ha?d??/

Noun

hydra (plural hydras or hydrae or hydræ)

1. Any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a naked cylindrical body and an oral opening surrounded by tentacles.
2. (fantasy) A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed.
3. A complex, multifarious problem or situation that cannot be solved easily and rapidly.
   • 2009, Kris Frieswick, Till Death Do Us Pay:

     Because the statute is so vaguely worded, award decisions are habitually based on case law, the growing mountain of which is a hydra of rulings that point in so many directions that almost any decision can be defended or overturned on appeal, depending on how smart your lawyer is and which precedent he selects to argue your case.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hardy, hardy

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (húdra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???dra]
• Rhymes: -?dra
• Hyphenation: hyd?ra

Noun

hydra f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology, singular only) Hydra, a mythological serpent with seven heads
2. something monstrous which is extremely difficult to fight with (often connected with organized crime)
3. Hydra, a genus of hydrozoan in family Hydridae

Declension

Alternative forms

• (serpent): Hydra

Synonyms

• (genus Hydra): nezmar

Hypernyms

• (genus Hydra): živo?ichové – regnum; žahavci – phylum; polypovci – class; nezma?i – order; nezmarovití – family

Hyponyms

• (genus Hydra): nezmar hv?zdnatý, nezmar obecný, nezmar opásaný, nezmar ostropouzdrý, nezmar podélník, nezmar štíhlý, nezmar zelený

Related terms

• See hydro-

Further reading

• hydra in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• hydra in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• drahý
• dráhy
• hadry
• hrady

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (húdra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?hy.dra/, [?h?d??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.dra/, [?i?d???]

Noun

hydra f (genitive hydrae); first declension (masculine hydrus)

1. A water-snake.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• Hydra
• hydrus

References

• hydra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hydra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• hydra in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[3]
• hydra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hydra in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

English

Etymology

From Middle English worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from Old English wyrm (“snake, worm”), from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?mis, possibly from *wer- (“to turn”). Cognate with Dutch worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Danish orm, Norwegian orm. Indo-European cognates include Latin vermis (“worm”), Lithuanian var?mas (“insect, midge”), Albanian rrime (“rainworm”), Ancient Greek ????? (rhómos, “woodworm”). First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.

Doublet of wyrm, which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??m/
• (US) enPR: wûrm, IPA^(key): /w?m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

worm (plural worms)

1. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
2. More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
3. (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.
4. (fantasy, science fiction) Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
5. A contemptible or devious being.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalms 22:6,^[2]

     But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

6. (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
7. (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
8. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises

     If the Worms of the Nut or Spindle be worn, the Spindle must be examin'd by the Smith

   1. A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
   2. The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
   3. (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
   4. The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
   5. A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
9. (obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
   • 1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 28:3-4,^[3]

     And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue.

   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 4,^[4]

     […] No, ’tis slander,

     Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue

     Outvenoms all the worms of Nile […]

   • 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (translator), The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, Volume I, Inferno, Canto 6, lines 22-24, p. 35,^[5]

     When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm!

     His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks;

     Not a limb had he that was motionless.

10. (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
    • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene 3,^[6]

      The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!

11. (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
12. (anatomy) The lytta.
13. (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.

Usage notes

Although the use of the "worm" to mean "dragon" or "serpent" is archaic, those meanings are in current use in the word "wyrm" which is a doublet of "worm". Wyrm is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Verb

worm (third-person singular simple present worms, present participle worming, simple past and past participle wormed)

1. (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

2. (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
   • 1919, William Joseph Long, How animals talk: and other pleasant studies of birds and beast

     Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath […].

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.

   • When debates and fretting jealousy / Did worm and work within you more and more, / Your colour faded.

4. (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

5. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit

     They […] find themselves wormed out of all power.

6. (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).

   • They […] wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.

   • He nodded. "Mum's the word, Mrs. Bunting! It'll all be in the last editions of the evening newspapers—it can't be kep' out. There'd be too much of a row if twas!" ¶ "Are you going off to that public-house now?" she asked. ¶ "I've got a awk'ard job—to try and worm something out of the barmaid."

7. (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
   • 1841, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-Book:

     Ropes […] are generally wormed before they are served.

8. (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
9. (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.
10. (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

Translations

See also

References

• [7] The Free Dictionary, Farlex Inc., 2010.

Anagrams

• mrow

Cornish

Adjective

worm

1. Soft mutation of gorm.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• wurm

Etymology

From Middle Dutch worm, from Old Dutch *wurm, *worm, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?mis. Compare English worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Danish orm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rm/
• Hyphenation: worm
• Rhymes: -?rm

Noun

worm m (plural wormen, diminutive wormpje n)

1. worm, vernacular term for various, mostly legless invertebrates; often nematodes or legless arthropod larvae.

Derived terms

• aarsworm
• aasworm
• gewormte
• haringworm
• hazelworm
• houtworm
• lintworm
• meelworm
• oorworm
• paalworm
• regenworm
• ringworm

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wurm

See also

• pier

Middle English

Alternative forms

• werm, wirm, wurm, wyrm, wyrme, wrim, worme

Etymology

From Old English wyrm, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?mis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wurm/, /?w?rm/, /?wirm/

Noun

worm (plural wormes or wormen)

1. A worm or similar small wormlike animal that lives in the ground; especially in the following special senses:
   1. A wormish insect that damages plants or plant-based material (e.g. a termite).
   2. A wormish insect that damages human remains.
   3. A parasitic worm; especially one living in the stomach.
2. A crawling animal; an animal that moves upon the ground.
3. An animal regarded as harmful and annoying.
4. A snake or snake-like monster.
5. A dragon, drake, or wyrm (mythological fire-breathing winged lizard)
6. A beast that inhabits Hell; causing suffering to its inhabitants.
7. A pauper, miser, or other contemptuous individual.
8. regret, forgiveness; the twanging of the heartstrings.
9. evil, malice; that which promotes maliciousness.
10. (biblical) The snake of Eden.
11. (Christianity, rare) Satan, the Devil.
12. (veterinary, rare) A muscle underneath the tongue of a dog seen as increasing the risk of rabies.

Related terms

• glouworm
• wormwode

Descendants

• English: worm
• Scots: worm, wirm

References

• “w?rm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-02.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English worm.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?wo?.mi/

Noun

worm m (plural worms)

1. (computer security) worm (self-replicating program)