worm
- noun
- /wɜrm/
- Specialized
- This is a right angle worm gear driven gearbox.
- worm gear
- helical worm
Examples
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It's a worm gear; still a little sluggish, but it'll have to do.
Fiction book (1997) -
OK, so you've got the worm gear against this gear.
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The first worm unit was installed in May, and a second was to be added in early November.
Academic text (1999) -
Massive worm gear down in here under that.
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And contractors I think here in California think that the worm drive right angle circular saw is the best.
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As one turns the horizontally mounted worm shaft, sliding contact is made with a worm gear inside the actuator housing.
Academic text (2004) -
The high-tensile bronze worm gear and stainless-steel worm are supported by tapered roller bearings and seals to prevent loss of lubrication.
Academic text (1996) -
The engineer explained how the worm gear smoothly transmits motion between parts of the machine.
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A small worm gear is crucial in this mechanism to change the direction of movement effectively.
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The new design features a worm gear that enhances the efficiency of the conveyor system.
Idioms
Compounds
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A small parasite that lives in people and comes out through the skin causing strong pain after drinking dirty water
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A small animal that lives inside another animal and takes its food, often causing sickness
A small red earthworm that lives in soil, helps make soil better, and people use it as fishing bait
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An infection from drinking water with baby worms that causes painful blisters when the worm comes out
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A gear with a screw shaft that turns a toothed wheel to change direction and make turning slower and stronger
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A small, long tropical fish that lives in shallow water and hides in seagrass
A worm with a long body made of many ring-shaped parts like an earthworm or leech
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A large green caterpillar with white stripes that eats tomato and tobacco plants
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A small sea worm that pulls its front part into its body and looks like a peanut
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A very small thin animal with a pointed body that lives in soil or inside other living things
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A caterpillar that moves in large groups and eats crops like grass and grain
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A sea worm with many body segments and small bristles on each segment
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A long soft animal with a body made of many rings, like earthworms and leeches
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A small soft animal with velvety skin that catches prey with sticky slime
A small caterpillar with legs only near its head and tail that moves by making a loop
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A thin sea animal that lives in a tube on the deep ocean floor and has tentacles
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A small thin salamander that looks like a worm and lives on the Pacific coast of the United States
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A gear that fits with a screw-shaped gear to turn movement at a right angle
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A soft sac in an animal that is filled with fluid and contains a young tapeworm
A large earthworm that comes out at night or when the ground is wet and people use for fishing
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A soft sea animal like a thin worm that stretches a long head to catch food
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A worm that lives in the sea with many small bristles on its sides that help it move
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A large green caterpillar with white stripes that eats potato and tomato leaves
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A small wormlike parasite with hooks that lives inside the nose of animals like dogs or cows
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A parasite that lives in animal intestines and can pull its spiny head back to hold on
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A very small worm that lives in vinegar and eats tiny living things that make it turn sour
Surface Forms
Etymology
The mechanical worm gets its name from the animal because the screw-shaped part looks like a long coiled creature, and the old word wyrm meant 'snake' or 'creeping thing'. So a worm in a machine is the threaded part that turns and moves the wheel.