Virus

['vaɪrəs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein.

(noun.) a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer; 'a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance'.

(noun.) a harmful or corrupting agency; 'bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread'; 'the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone'.

格思里整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.

(v. i.) The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.

(v. i.) Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. Poison (of a morbid nature), VENOM.

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解釋/意思:

n. contagious or poisonous matter (as of ulcers &c.): the poison which causes infection: any foul hurtful matter.—adjs. Vī′rose Vī′rous; Virūlif′erous bearing a specific virus.

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