(n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
(n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) "She is a very private person after all, a bookworm really, she once said.
(2) But he argued that his hard labour in the fields had prevented him from studying and attacked "bookworms who ignored their proper occupations" and craved a college education for their own selfish benefits.
(3) She has just got a job in publishing and is a real bookworm, so her advice was valuable.
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(5) Other changes include "housemistress" becoming "teacher", "awful swotter" becoming "bookworm", "mother and father" becoming "mum and dad", "school tunic" becoming "uniform" and Dick's comment that "she must be jolly lonely all by herself" being changed to "she must get lonely all by herself".
(6) Speaking last month at the Bookworm literary festival in Beijing, Hyeonseo Lee , a defector who fled North Korea in 1997, attacked Beijing’s treatment of North Korean defectors.
(7) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
(8) I don’t have a problem with the term “gamer” – to me it signifies what “film buff” or “bookworm” does – someone who is heavily invested in the medium.
(9) Finally, you’ve found another bookworm – and you can judge them by what they’re reading (yes, Middlemarch; no, Ayn Rand).
(10) The ever-busy Cave's one-woman show, Bookworm, debuts at the Edinburgh festival fringe this summer.
(11) In those days, any self-respecting teenage bookworm went to school with a Penguin Modern Classic tucked in a blazer pocket.
Nerd
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
(2) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
(3) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
(4) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
(5) This target audience includes not just those young people taking part in state-sponsored sports and defence training or patriotic youth groups, but also nerds who love western videogames and superheroes.
(6) "I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private," he said.
(7) Whereas Crow tended to rely on his rhetoric and his street-fighter smarts, Whelan is more of a data nerd – part barrow boy, part actuary.
(8) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
(9) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
(10) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
(11) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
(12) "Adam had this typical nerd look: belts, tucked-in shirt.
(13) There are duelling nerds in sports jackets and a panicky associate producer (inevitably and infuriatingly female) who is smarter than her ditzy persona would have you believe.
(14) 2.16pm BST Moyes music I'm something of a music nerd, so do keep the suggestions for Dave's iPod coming.
(15) "Really in those early days the web was just for nerds like me, if you wanted some tech advice or needed to find out how to do something.
(16) And for those who think interplanetary exploration is just nonsense for space nerds, the same lessons could surely be applied closer to home.
(17) So then I grew up and I stopped taking nerd-drugs, and about the same time, Starbucks opened in the UK, whereupon I took to getting double espressos, except they were never big enough.
(18) The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.'
(19) June 18, 2014 2.13pm BST Paul Doyle has spent the last few hours in a dark corner of the office, nerding it up on Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
(20) His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" – people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens.