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virus
Overview of noun virus
The noun virus has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) virus -- ((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)
2. virus -- (a harmful or corrupting agency; "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"; "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone")
3. virus, computer virus -- (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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun virus
3 senses of virus
Sense 1
virus
=> microorganism, micro-organism
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> infectious agent, infective agent
=> agent
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
virus
=> representation, delegacy, agency
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
virus, computer virus
=> malevolent program
=> program, programme, computer program, computer programme
=> software, software program, computer software, software system, software package, package
=> code, computer code
=> coding system
=> writing
=> written communication, written language
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun virus
1 of 3 senses of virus
Sense 1
virus
=> arbovirus, arborvirus
=> bacteriophage, phage
=> plant virus
=> animal virus
=> slow virus
=> tumor virus
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun virus
3 senses of virus
Sense 1
virus
=> microorganism, micro-organism
=> infectious agent, infective agent
Sense 2
virus
=> representation, delegacy, agency
Sense 3
virus, computer virus
=> malevolent program
Antonyms of noun virus
Member Holonyms of noun virus
Substance Holonyms of noun virus
Part Holonyms of noun virus
Member Meronyms of noun virus
Substance Meronyms of noun virus
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Meronyms of noun virus
Holonyms of noun virus
Attributes of noun virus
Derived Forms of noun virus
1 of 3 senses of virus
Sense 1
virus
RELATED TO>(adj) viral#1
=> viral
Domain of noun virus
1 of 3 senses of virus
Sense 1
virus
TOPIC>(noun) virology#1
Domain Terms of noun virus
1 of 3 senses of virus
Sense 1
virus
TOPIC TERM>(noun) virion#1
TOPIC TERM>(noun) rheumatoid arthritis#1, atrophic arthritis#1, rheumatism#2
TOPIC TERM>(noun) inoculant#1, inoculum#1
Familiarity of noun virus
virus used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun virus
3 senses of virus
Sense 1
virus
> microorganism, micro-organism
=> monad
=> intestinal flora
=> virus
=> moneran, moneron
=> bacteria, bacterium
=> microbe, bug, germ
=> pathogen
=> protoctist
=> protist, protistan
> infectious agent, infective agent
=> virus
=> pathogen
Sense 2
virus
> representation, delegacy, agency
=> free agency
=> legal representation
=> virus
Sense 3
virus, computer virus
> malevolent program
=> logic bomb, slag code
=> trojan, trojan horse
=> virus, computer virus
=> worm
Meronyms of noun virus
3 senses of virus
Sense 1
virus
=> microorganism, micro-organism
HAS PART: pilus
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 3
virus, computer virus
=> malevolent program
=> program, programme, computer program, computer programme
HAS PART: routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure, function
HAS PART: instruction, command, statement, program line
=> software, software program, computer software, software system, software package, package
=> code, computer code
=> coding system
=> writing
=> written communication, written language
HAS PART: leaf, folio
Holonyms of noun virus
Grep of noun virus
adenovirus
alphavirus
animal virus
anti-virus program
arborvirus
arbovirus
arenavirus
bunyavirus
computer virus
coxsackie virus
coxsackievirus
cytomegalovirus
ebola virus
echovirus
enterovirus
epstein-barr virus
filovirus
flavivirus
hepadnavirus
hepatitis a virus
herpes simplex virus
herpes varicella zoster virus
herpes virus
herpes zoster virus
human immunodeficiency virus
human papilloma virus
human t-cell leukemia virus1
junin virus
lassa virus
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
lyssavirus
machupo virus
marburg virus
myxoma virus
myxovirus
onion yellow-dwarf virus
orthomyxovirus
papovavirus
parainfluenza virus
paramyxovirus
parvovirus
picornavirus
plant virus
poliovirus
polyoma virus
potato yellow-dwarf virus
poxvirus
reovirus
respiratory syncytial virus
retrovirus
rhabdovirus
rhinovirus
rotavirus
slow virus
smallpox virus
tobacco mosaic virus
tumor virus
varicella zoster virus
variola major virus
variola minor virus
variola virus
vesiculovirus
virus
virus infection
virusoid
west nile encephalitis virus
west nile virus
wound tumor virus
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