virus
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- microorganism hypernym
- infectious agent hypernym
- arbovirus hyponym
- bacteriophage hyponym
- plant virus hyponym
- animal virus hyponym
- slow virus hyponym
- tumor virus hyponym
- vector hyponym
Related & opposite
- viral derivation
- virology domain topic
- virion has domain topic
- rheumatoid arthritis has domain topic
- inoculant has domain topic
Sense 2 noun
a harmful or corrupting agency
bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread
Types & categories
- delegacy hypernym
Sense 3 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
Types & categories
- malevolent program hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | viral |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | virology |
| 1 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | virion |
| 1 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | rheumatoid arthritis |
| 1 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | inoculant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | microorganism |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | infectious agent |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | arbovirus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bacteriophage |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | plant virus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | animal virus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | slow virus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tumor virus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | vector |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | delegacy |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | malevolent program |