virus
US: /ˈvaɪɹəs/
UK: /vˈaɪɹəs/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
virus /'vaiərəs/- danh từ
- (y học) virut
- filterable virus: virut qua lọc
- mối độc hại, mầm độc
- virus of sensuality: mối độc hại của nhục dục
- ác ý; tính độc địa
- (y học) virut
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 a living thing, too small to be seen without a MICROSCOPE, that causes infectious disease in people, animals and plants: the flu virus + a virus infection
2 (informal) a disease caused by a virus: There's a virus going around the office.
3 instructions that are hidden within a computer program and are designed to cause faults or destroy data: The virus in the software was programmed to corrupt the hard disk.
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Collocation
ADJ.
deadly | virulent | Aids, flu, hepatitis, herpes, HIV, measles, etc. | computer
VERB + VIRUS
be infected with, contract, develop | carry | pass (on), spread, transmit
An infected person can pass the virus to others.
| isolate | inactivate
VIRUS + VERB
attack sb/sth
The virus attacks a variety of cells in the body.
| replicate
VIRUS + NOUN
infection | vaccine
Concise dictionary
viruses'vaɪərəsnoun
+(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
+a harmful or corrupting agency
+a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
