virus
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈvaɪrəs/
- Specialized
- A computer virus can spread quickly and corrupt your files if you don't have protection.
- computer virus
- virus scanner
- virus-scanning software
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Examples
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I'm writing a virus that could shut it down.
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When a computer has a virus, you just delete it.
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Experiments with blocking software and virus attacks have had only limited success.
Academic text (2001) -
It gave your computer a virus?
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We can enter here, upload the virus, and set off an explosion that could disable it.
Fiction book (1996) -
The security gateway provided an almost insurmountable bulwark against virus attacks from the general university network.
Fiction book (2002) -
He managed to remove the virus from his computer before it could cause any major damage.
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Installing antivirus software helps prevent virus attacks that can compromise your system.
Synonyms
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4.3
Programs that harm computers or let someone access them without permission
18
3.5
A program that copies itself and damages files on a computer
1
8.0
Software that harms computers, for example by stealing data
Antonyms
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12
3.5
A program that finds and removes computer viruses and other harmful programs
Compounds
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14
4.3
A virus spread by mosquito bites that can make people and animals sick and sometimes cause brain infection
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10
3.4
A very dangerous virus that causes severe bleeding and high fever in people and animals
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3
8.0
A very infectious virus that causes a serious fever illness in people and monkeys
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3
3.9
A germ that causes painful sores on the skin, often around the mouth or genitals
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2
3.4
A virus that attacks the body's defence system by destroying important immune cells and causes AIDS
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2
4.7
A common virus that often causes a sickness that makes you very tired and is linked to some cancers
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1
4.2
A group of viruses that infect skin, mouth, or genitals and can cause warts and sometimes cancer
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7.4
A small germ that often causes hand, foot, and mouth disease in children
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1
7.3
A germ that stays inactive in the body for a long time before causing symptoms
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1
6.1
A virus that infects the breathing tubes of young children and can cause serious chest infections like pneumonia
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1
4.7
A virus that infects tobacco and other plants, making leaves show light and dark patches
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1
9.9
A virus that causes a serious bleeding fever in people in Bolivia and spreads from rodents
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1
4.3
A virus that causes infections of the nose and throat, like the common cold, often in young children
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1
8.9
A virus that causes a serious fever with bleeding in Argentina and spreads to people from rats and mice
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1
8.4
A virus that lives in mice or rats and can make people sick
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1
9.2
A virus that causes soft, jelly-like tumors in rabbits and sometimes humans
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1
4.8
A virus that causes chickenpox and shingles in people
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1
7.4
A virus that causes tumors in animals and scientists use in cancer research
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A virus that infects people and can cause a blood cancer of white blood cells called T cells
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A virus that makes onion plants grow poorly and their leaves turn yellow
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A germ that makes potato plants small and their leaves turn yellow
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A milder form of smallpox that kills about one person in a hundred
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A tiny germ that causes brain inflammation in people and animals and spreads by infected mosquitoes
- Offensive
An insulting phrase for strong social justice ideas seen as spreading online and changing people's views
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A plant virus spread by small jumping insects that causes growths on plants
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Etymology
The computer word virus was named after the biological virus (from Latin meaning 'poison') because it 'infects' files, can copy itself and spread, so it behaves like a disease for computers.