virus in English: A very small living thing that gets into your body and makes you ill. A computer virus is a bad program that harms computers. (noun)

Translation

A very small living thing that gets into your body and makes you ill. A computer virus is a bad program that harms computers.

Word origin

From Latin virus, meaning poison; scientists borrowed the word for the tiny agents that make us ill.

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A virus is far too small to see; you only see what it does.

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You catch a virus, the same verb as catching a ball.

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A computer virus is a program that copies itself and does harm.

sick

Not well in your body.

ill

Not well in your body; sick.

disease

An illness of the body that has a name and a cause, such as one carried by germs.

cold

Having a low temperature, or not warm.

body

The whole physical part of a person or animal.

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