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snake
[ sneyk ]
noun
- any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
- a treacherous person; an insidious enemy. Compare snake in the grass.
- Building Trades.
- Also called auger, plumber's snake. (in plumbing) a device for dislodging obstructions in curved pipes, having a head fed into the pipe at the end of a flexible metal band.
- Also called wirepuller. a length of resilient steel wire, for threading through an electrical conduit so that wire can be pulled through after it.
verb (used without object)
- to move, twist, or wind:
The road snakes among the mountains.
verb (used with object)
- to wind or make (one's course, way, etc.) in the manner of a snake:
to snake one's way through a crowd.
- to drag or haul, especially by a chain or rope, as a log.
snake
/ sneɪk /
noun
- any reptile of the suborder Ophidia (or Serpentes ), typically having a scaly cylindrical limbless body, fused eyelids, and a jaw modified for swallowing large prey: includes venomous forms such as cobras and rattlesnakes, large nonvenomous constrictors (boas and pythons), and small harmless types such as the grass snake colubrineophidian
- Also calledsnake in the grass a deceitful or treacherous person
- anything resembling a snake in appearance or action
- (in the European Union) a former system of managing a group of currencies by allowing the exchange rate of each of them only to fluctuate within narrow limits
- a tool in the form of a long flexible wire for unblocking drains
verb
- intr to glide or move like a snake
- tr to haul (a heavy object, esp a log) by fastening a rope around one end of it
- tr often foll by out to pull jerkily
- tr to move in or follow (a sinuous course)
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Derived Forms
- ˈsnakeˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- snakelike adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of snake1
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Origin of snake1
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Example Sentences
For these Arabs, Iran is the raised (and loaded) head of the snake.
The black mamba snake slithering towards Lakshmi is highly venomous.
Here the snake oil quotient is a bit more evident than in the skybox seats occupied by insights made using hard science.
Which of these foods have science to back them up, and which are nothing but snake oil?
The snake was particularly kissed and touched as worshippers entered.
He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.
On his loins was a lion of great fierceness, and coiled round his waist was a hissing mamba (snake).
So they bore Spotted Snake away with them in the canoe, while the Dogtown gang shrieked farewells from the old landing.
Dorothy again caught the furtive glance of the woman's evil eyes, and recoiled from it as if she had trodden upon a snake.
A few hundreds in a few hungry pockets, and we run a snake through the legislature declaring that lake state property.
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