What is another word for microbe?

Pronunciation: [mˈa͡ɪkɹə͡ʊb] (IPA)

The term "microbe" refers to a microscopic organism that can be either harmful or harmless. There are many different synonyms for this word that can be used interchangeably depending on the context. Some of the most common of these include microorganism, germ, bacteria, virus, pathogen, and bug. Each of these words has a slightly different connotation, and some may be more appropriate than others depending on what is being discussed. For example, "microorganism" is a more general term that can refer to any type of microscopic living thing, while "pathogen" specifically refers to an organism that causes disease. Understanding these different synonyms can help individuals communicate more effectively about these important organisms.

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Usage examples for Microbe

As I left the soup-kitchen, I reflected: The worst microbe in the body of the community is begging.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
But I played football all through my college course and the microbe is still there.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
He just had the college microbe, that's all.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch

Famous quotes with Microbe

  • The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
    Hilaire Belloc
  • You are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach three and a half billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of time, chance, and natural forces. You are a mere grab-bag of atomic particles, a conglomeration of genetic substance. You exist on a tiny planet in a minute solar system in an empty corner of a universe. You are a purely biological entity, different only in degree but not in kind from a microbe, virus, or amoeba. You have no essence beyond your body, and at death you will cease to exist entirely. In short you come from nothing and are going to nowhere.
    Randy Alcorn
  • They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
    C. S. Lewis
  • We Dadaists are often told that we are incoherent, but into this word people try to put an insult that it is rather hard for me to fathom. Everything is incoherent... There is no logic... The acts of life have no beginning and no end. Everything happens in a completely idiotic way. That is why everything is alike. Simplicity is called Dada. Any attempt to conciliate an inexplicable momentary state with logic strikes me as a boring kind of game... Like everything in life, Dada is useless... Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all of the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions.
    Tristan Tzara
  • We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.
    Fred Hoyle

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