virus

noun · verbA2

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noun
Plural noun:
virusesvirussesviraviriviriivirus
  1. 1.

    (countable, uncountable)A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).

  2. 2.

    (uncountable)A quantity of such infectious agents, considered en masse.

    Not much virus was detectable on a nucleic acid test; the viral load was very low.

  3. 3.

    (countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable)(informal, metonymic) A disease caused by such an infectious agent; a viral illness.

    He's got a virus and had to stay home from school.

  4. 4.

    (archaic, countable, uncountable)Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.

  5. 5.

    (countable, uncountable)(computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.

  6. 6.

    (countable, proscribed, uncountable)(computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.

  7. 7.

    (countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) Any malicious or dangerous entity that spreads from one place or person to another.

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verb
V_es/s
viruses
V_ing/Gerund
virusing
V_ed/pp
virused
  1. 1.

    (nonstandard, rare)To send or infect an electronic device with a computer virus.

    I'm just going to virus anyone who tries cheating on this game.

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From Middle English virus, from Latin vīrus (poison, slime, venom), via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (fluidity, slime, poison). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One.

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