virus

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vi‧rus W3 /ˈvaɪərəs $ ˈvaɪrəs/ BrE AmE noun
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: 'thick slippery liquid, poison, bad smell']
1. [uncountable and countable] a very small living thing that causes infectious illnesses:
children infected with the Aids virus
a virus infection
2. [countable] a set of instructions secretly put onto a computer or computer program, which can destroy information. When a computer that has a virus makes a connection with another computer, for example by ↑email, the virus can make copies of itself and move to the other computer.
3. [countable] a program that sends a large number of annoying messages to many people’s ↑mobile phones in an uncontrolled way
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COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + virus
▪ the AIDS/flu/polio etc virus They are trying to stop the spread of the flu virus.
▪ a deadly/killer virus a killer virus which has already been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people
▪ virulent (=causing many people to become ill) Why was this particular strain of the virus so virulent?
verbs
▪ a virus causes something The virus causes people to sweat.
▪ carry a virus (=have a virus, which you may then give to other people) A nurse at the clinic was found to be carrying the virus.
▪ get a virus (also contract a virus formal) He does not know when he contracted the virus.
▪ be infected with a virus Thousands of people may already be infected with the virus.
▪ be exposed to a virus Four workers at the facility, though exposed to the virus, never became ill.
▪ transmit/pass on a virus (=pass it from one person or animal to another) The rabies virus is transmitted in saliva when one animal bites another.
▪ a virus spreads The virus spread throughout the population.
phrases
▪ a strain of a virus (=one type of it) Doctors fear that a new strain of the virus will appear.
▪ a virus infection The fever was caused by a virus infection.

virushu

◎	['vaiərəs]
※	danh từ, số nhiều viruses
	■	(y học) vi rút (một sinh vật đơn giản, bé hơn vi khuẩn và gây ra bệnh truyền nhiễm)
		☆	the AIDS virus
			vi rút AIDS
	■	(thông tục) bệnh nhiễm vi rút
	■	(nghĩa bóng) mối độc hại, mầm bệnh, nguồn gây bệnh
		☆	virus of sensuality
			mối độc hại của nhục dục
	■	ác ý; tính độc địa