What is a worm, everyone knows. But the question arises: "Does the noun "worm" have one meaning?" Morphological characteristics, declension you will learn from this article. In addition, consider cognates and synonyms.
Worm is
The word "worm" has several meanings. Some of them are known to everyone, others - only to specialists. To clarify all the meanings of this word, let's turn to explanatory dictionaries.
Worm is:
- Small invertebrate protostomes. It was raining and earthworms were everywhere.
- A larva or caterpillar that looks like a real worm. Cabbage leaves were gnawed by worms.
- A painful constant feeling. The worm of doubt settled in my heart for a long time.
- Self-copying computer program. A worm has settled in my computer.
- Heart suit cards (those with red hearts). Mikhail thought that the worms were trump cards, but they weren't.
- Unpaired part of the cerebellum, located in its center. The cerebellar vermis was damaged.
- Small, meaningless person. The worm is worthless!
- Letter of the Slavic alphabet. The teacher asked me to write two lines of the letter "worm".
Morphological features, declension
It is known that the letter "soft sign" ("ь") does not denote independent sounds, but performs a separating or softening function. Therefore, the word "worm" has five letters and only four sounds. The initial form of this noun consists of one syllable.
Worm is a common noun. It can be both animate and inanimate; both masculine and feminine. Therefore, the word can be declined both in the second and in the third type.
| Case | Questions | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | Who? What? | Worm is the name of a part of the brain. | For the third game in a row, the Hearts were trump. |
| Genitive | Whom? What? | I wish I could start listening to an insignificant worm! | Never seen so many earthworms at once. |
| Dative | Who? What? | Don't let the worm of longing eat your soul. | Beetles have been added to the worms that eat vegetable leaves. |
| Accusative | Whom? What? | The healer told me to find an earthworm. |
The player saw worms in the opponent's hands and decided to change tactics. All his life Oleg Viktorovich studied various worms. |
| Instrumental | Who? What? | With the help of wine and women, the lieutenant tried to negotiate with the worm of longing. | Worms are often referred to as any invertebrate animals that look like snakes. |
| Prepositional case | About whom? About what? | A programmer friend told me something about a worm in my computer. | I'm an ornithologist - I don't know much about worms. |
Single-root words
As the name implies, words with the same root have a common root. The noun "worm" has several cognates:
- Steer: Strange, such a good potato shouldn't be sour.
- Wormyed: The wormy apples had to be thrown away.
- Worms: No one in our family ate beetroot, so it lay in the cellar, wormy and drying up.
- Wormy: The heart of the scoundrel Valerka is rotten and wormy without love.
- Wormy: The clerk put some wormy fruits in my bag.
- Worm-shaped: The worm-shaped street seemed to have no end.
- Wormworm: The tuber was speckled with wormholes.
- Worm Gear: The crossbow's worm gear jammed.
- Wormyness: The worminess of Yevgeny's nature has become a byword.
- Wormhole: The gnarled apple was in the wormholes, but the hungry boy was sorry to throw it away.
- Worm: The worm crawled out of the hole, looked around and crawled across the path.
- Worm: A worm of jealousy poisoned the lives of a young couple.
Similar words
Worm, as we have already found out, has several meanings. What about synonyms? Does this noun have them?
Synonyms for the word "worm": maggot, worm, caterpillar, helminth, wireworm, leafworm.
Rhymes
As unpleasant as the word "worm" is, it is loved and often used by poets.
More or less exact rhymes for the word "worm": bitch, shipyard, believe, measure, door, victims, trust, Siberian crane.
Phrases with the word "worm"
What are worms?
Bookish, ringed, gray, rainy, terrible, disgusting, pitiful, slippery, sandy, mulberry, others, some, some, some, one's own, others, hungry, scientists, crushed, interesting, small, large, long, short, thick, thin, dung, earthy, stinking, real, artificial, toy, disgusting, last, first, most, ordinary, unusual, small, large, despicable, terrifying, frightening, vile, papery, squirming, flat, round, ribbon.
What can a worm do?
Crawl, make, die, be born, eat, dig, approach, move away, crawl, get wet, dry, fall, fall, fall asleep, exhaust, squirm, continue, move, twitch, swallow, curl up, turn around, appear, eat, turn around, return, rush, die, disappear, show up, lie down, wait,fall out, abyss, get hungry, want.
