virus
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noun- 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.
(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.
(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.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.
- 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.
(countable, proscribed, uncountable)(computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.
- 7.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) Any malicious or dangerous entity that spreads from one place or person to another.
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verb- 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.