Worms

Definition

worm /wɜ:m/ n ၁။ (က) [C] တီေကာင္။ birds looking for worms. See also EARTHWORM (ခ) worms [pl] သန္ေကာင္။ The dog has worms. (ဂ) [C] (esp in compounds) ပိုးေကာင္။ …ပိုး။ The apples are full of worms. See also SILKWORM, WOODWORM ၂။ [C usu sing ] ( infml derog ) (ႏိွမ့္ခ်၍ေခၚေသာ အာလုပ္စကား)။ v ၁။ သံခ်သည္။ All horses should be regularly wormed. ၂။ တိုးေဝွ႔ဝင္သည္။ They had to worm their way through the narrow tunnel. ❏ worm-cast n တီက်စ္စာ။ ❏ worm sth out (of sb) [ PHRV ] ျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း အစ္ထုတ္ သည္။ We eventually wormed the truth out of her. ❏ worm one's way/ oneself into sth [ PHRV ] ( usu derog ) တအိအိႏွင့္ အယံုသြင္းသည္။ She used flattery to worm her way/herself into his confidence. ❏ the worm will turn [ IDM ] ဖိလြန္းလွ်င္ႂကြလိမ့္မည္။ ❏ wormy adj ပိုးပါေသာ။ a wormy apple.

Examples

1. ‘This is probably due to the general unhealthiness of worms grown at high temperatures.’
2. ‘For the past ten minutes I'd been watching two tiny worms crawl their way across the front step.’
3. ‘Hemp seed
4. sweet corn maggots and even worms can also be used.’
5. ‘For many years only animals such as worms
6. leeches and midge larvae could survive.’
7. ‘When feeding is completed
8. the worms drop to the ground and enter the soil where they transform into shiny brown pupae.’
9. ‘We peer down at the tiny worm wriggling under the lens of our microscope.’
10. ‘They eat little worms and little insects and things
11. and they're a neat little animal.’
12. ‘The son shows his father a worm in an apple that he is eating.’
13. ‘The wriggling worms had done a great transformation job on my fruit and veg waste.’
14. ‘These chickens have seen the sun
15. breathed in fresh air
16. scratched the dirt and eaten a worm or two.’
17. ‘The garter snakes mentioned in the letter generally eat frogs
18. worms
19. mice and smaller snakes.’
20. ‘A simple worm grader
21. run by an electric motor
22. separates the worms from the dirt.’
23. ‘When she came back
24. she pointed to a green worm crawling on her plate.’
25. ‘Some small fish and marine worms are also eaten.’
26. ‘They seem to eat more annelid worms and insects than any other prey
27. and chicks are fed mostly earthworms.’
28. ‘Once the trout season opens you may fish for them with fly
29. worm
30. minnow or artificial lure.’
31. ‘The crows working in harmony with nature lived on the snails
32. beetles and insects.’
33. ‘They also feed on small crayfish
34. minnows
35. tadpoles
36. and insects.’
37. ‘In about 3 months the worms should have changed the bedding and food wastes into compost.’
38. ‘Many of those could be basic life forms
39. such as worms and jellyfish.’