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Definition of snake in English: snakenoun sneɪksneɪk 1A long limbless reptile which has no eyelids, a short tail, and jaws that are capable of considerable extension. Some snakes have a venomous bite. Suborder Ophidia (or Serpentes), order Squamata: many families Example sentencesExamples - Like that of other snakes, death adder venom is a form of saliva.
- Jesús Rivas is a man who has followed his passion, and his passion is the green anaconda, the largest snake in the world.
- Non-Hopi experts have tried to discover how the priests can handle snakes without being bitten, but the secret has not been revealed.
- Australian venomous snakes, belonging exclusively to the Elapidae family, are among the most toxic in the world.
- Even though he knows better, he has no qualms or reservations about putting his face two inches away from some of the most venomous snakes on the planet.
- I winced, expecting him to crush the snakes, or the cobras to bite him, or both of those things to happen at once.
- Even though I've been bitten by a snake, I still like snakes.
- Unlike most other snakes, boa constrictors possess small vestigial hind legs.
- Poachers illegally trade in snakes such as the Indian python, slaughtering the snake for their skin.
- The copperhead, a venomous snake, is dangerous, but its bite is rarely life-threatening to healthy adult humans.
- Color variations in captive colubrid snakes are well known.
- Although venomous snakes can sometimes deliver a ‘dry’ bite without releasing their poison, all bites require immediate hospital treatment.
- One of the world's largest snakes, the python is a popular pet snake.
- Prey-derived cues stimulate the tail movements of death adders and these snakes may more often attempt to lure lizards of a particular body size.
- The illegible writing begins to shift and change, turning into a snake biting its own tail, which twirls in a circle.
- King Cobras are the world's largest venomous snakes, growing to an average length of nearly 6m.
- Their staple diet comprises rodents and snakes including the highly venomous Cape cobra and puff adder.
- Shaken yet relatively unharmed, the snake rose, tail rattling again, preparing for one last strike.
- Only about 50% of bites by exotic venomous snakes inject sufficient venom to cause clinical envenoming.
- Like most other snakes, a flying snake is roughly circular in cross section.
Synonyms literary serpent Zoology ophidian Australian rhyming slang Joe Blake - 1.1 (in general use) a limbless lizard or amphibian.
2A treacherous or deceitful person. that man is a cold-blooded snake Example sentencesExamples - He's as manipulative as he is charming, a snake in the grass.
- But what I really hate are snakes in the grass, waiting to slither in the back door for that important job when all the work is done.
- You're nothing more than a lecherous snake in the grass, Shawn.
- Louise is just a snake in the grass who can't be trusted.
- And some CBS people I've talked to, as you well know, have referred to you as selfish, as sleazy, as a snake in the grass, and some other things that I can't say on the air.
Synonyms traitor, turncoat, betrayer, informer, back-stabber, double-crosser, double-dealer, quisling, Judas cheat, swindler, fraudster, trickster, charlatan, viper, serpent, snake in the grass informal two-timer, creep, rat, beast, pig, swine, skunk, dog, weasel, bastard British informal twister, scrote British informal, dated bounder, rotter North American informal rat fink Irish informal sleeveen Australian informal dingo vulgar slang shit dated heel, cad, blackguard 3the snakeA former system of interconnected exchange rates for the currencies of EC countries. the snake did not have any provision for strong currency nations to help the weak Example sentencesExamples - Market pressures also busted the snake, as governments were unable to keep their currencies within these bands.
- The UK was thus forced to leave the cooperation, and later also France, Italy, and Sweden withdrew from the snake in the tunnel arrangement.
- After France and Italy left the snake their currencies depreciated, making their goods more competitive than German goods.
- However, the snake was not very successful in limiting exchange rate fluctuations.
4A long flexible wire for clearing obstacles in piping. Example sentencesExamples - Next withdraw the snake and flush the pipe by inserting a garden hose with the water turned on full.
- Step 2: If it is a major clog a toilet snake or closet auger with a padded end is best to use.
- Plugged and or restricted drain lines need to be snaked out using a plumber drain cleaning snake.
- Step 3: If the closet auger is not effective, use a small snake in the same way as described for opening lavatory drains.
- As expected, they encountered the clog much farther down the pipe than the first plumber's snake could have reached from under the sink.
verb sneɪksneɪk no object, with adverbial of direction Move or extend with the twisting motion of a snake. Example sentencesExamples - A yellow extension cord snakes from the sculpture to the wall.
- The road snaked upward, its old pavement cracked in places, making the ride a bit rough.
- Before them the land was reasonably flat, a single road snaking through the grass and disappearing into a wood not far away.
- It's quite impressive to see all the cars and trucks snaking down the hill and past the end of my road.
- If the thought of cables snaking across the living room is too much to live with, this virtual-surround system offers salvation.
Synonyms twist, wind, twist and turn, meander, zigzag curl, coil, wreathe, spiral, twine, loop, curve, corkscrew
Derivatives adjectiveˈsneɪklʌɪk Moray eels seem to poke their dark heads from every crevice and are often caught out in the open, their yellow and brown speckled bodies snake-like and coiled, ready for a sudden dash for cover. Example sentencesExamples - Its teeth, rotting and yellow, were complemented by a long snake-like tongue that flicked around inside of a slimy, saliva filled mouth.
- On the way home, she showed off her sword: a beautiful five-foot long katana blade with a jade hilt in the shape of a snake-like Asian dragon.
- Her dark snake-like pupils amid rust-colored eyeballs made a look his way, showing an emotional intensity never noticed before.
- Contrary to previous work, the skull of Phlegethontia, though superficially snake-like, was not highly kinetic.
Origin Old English snaca, of Germanic origin. Snakes take their name from the fact that they have no legs and crawl along the ground. The ancestor of snake is an ancient Germanic word that meant ‘to crawl or creep’. Serpent (Middle English) has a similar origin—it comes from Latin serpere, which also meant ‘to crawl or creep’. Yet another word with this original sense was Old English slink. You can describe a treacherous person as a snake in the grass, with the idea of a lurking danger. Snakes are associated with treachery not only in Genesis but in the 6th century bc fables of the Greek storyteller Aesop. In one of his stories a man finds a snake frozen with cold and puts it close to his chest to warm it up. As soon as the snake revives it bites him (see also viper). Before the 17th century the equivalent phrase had featured toads, which were at one time thought to be poisonous—a treacherous person was called a pad in the straw (pad is an old dialect word for a toad). The current expression may have originated from a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil. The children's game Snakes and Ladders, called in the USA Chutes and Ladders, was first played at the end of the 19th century. It may be based on an ancient Indian game called Moksha Patamu, which was used to teach children about the Hindu religion—the good squares allowed a player to go to a higher level of life, whereas the evil ‘snakes’ sent them back through reincarnation to lower tiers of life.
Rhymes ache, awake, bake, betake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, fake, flake, forsake, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, partake, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, splake, stake, steak, strake, take, undertake, wake, wideawake Definition of snake in US English: snakenounsnāksneɪk 1A long limbless reptile which has no eyelids, a short tail, and jaws that are capable of considerable extension. Some snakes have a venomous bite. Suborder Ophidia (or Serpentes), order Squamata: many families Example sentencesExamples - Jesús Rivas is a man who has followed his passion, and his passion is the green anaconda, the largest snake in the world.
- King Cobras are the world's largest venomous snakes, growing to an average length of nearly 6m.
- Non-Hopi experts have tried to discover how the priests can handle snakes without being bitten, but the secret has not been revealed.
- Australian venomous snakes, belonging exclusively to the Elapidae family, are among the most toxic in the world.
- Poachers illegally trade in snakes such as the Indian python, slaughtering the snake for their skin.
- Prey-derived cues stimulate the tail movements of death adders and these snakes may more often attempt to lure lizards of a particular body size.
- Only about 50% of bites by exotic venomous snakes inject sufficient venom to cause clinical envenoming.
- Unlike most other snakes, boa constrictors possess small vestigial hind legs.
- Although venomous snakes can sometimes deliver a ‘dry’ bite without releasing their poison, all bites require immediate hospital treatment.
- The copperhead, a venomous snake, is dangerous, but its bite is rarely life-threatening to healthy adult humans.
- The illegible writing begins to shift and change, turning into a snake biting its own tail, which twirls in a circle.
- Color variations in captive colubrid snakes are well known.
- Like that of other snakes, death adder venom is a form of saliva.
- Shaken yet relatively unharmed, the snake rose, tail rattling again, preparing for one last strike.
- Even though he knows better, he has no qualms or reservations about putting his face two inches away from some of the most venomous snakes on the planet.
- One of the world's largest snakes, the python is a popular pet snake.
- Their staple diet comprises rodents and snakes including the highly venomous Cape cobra and puff adder.
- Like most other snakes, a flying snake is roughly circular in cross section.
- Even though I've been bitten by a snake, I still like snakes.
- I winced, expecting him to crush the snakes, or the cobras to bite him, or both of those things to happen at once.
- 1.1 (in general use) a limbless lizard or amphibian.
2A treacherous or deceitful person. that man is a cold-blooded snake Example sentencesExamples - You're nothing more than a lecherous snake in the grass, Shawn.
- But what I really hate are snakes in the grass, waiting to slither in the back door for that important job when all the work is done.
- Louise is just a snake in the grass who can't be trusted.
- And some CBS people I've talked to, as you well know, have referred to you as selfish, as sleazy, as a snake in the grass, and some other things that I can't say on the air.
- He's as manipulative as he is charming, a snake in the grass.
Synonyms traitor, turncoat, betrayer, informer, back-stabber, double-crosser, double-dealer, quisling, judas 3the snakeA former system of interconnected exchange rates for the currencies of EC countries. Example sentencesExamples - After France and Italy left the snake their currencies depreciated, making their goods more competitive than German goods.
- However, the snake was not very successful in limiting exchange rate fluctuations.
- Market pressures also busted the snake, as governments were unable to keep their currencies within these bands.
- The UK was thus forced to leave the cooperation, and later also France, Italy, and Sweden withdrew from the snake in the tunnel arrangement.
4A long flexible wire for clearing obstacles in piping. Example sentencesExamples - As expected, they encountered the clog much farther down the pipe than the first plumber's snake could have reached from under the sink.
- Step 3: If the closet auger is not effective, use a small snake in the same way as described for opening lavatory drains.
- Plugged and or restricted drain lines need to be snaked out using a plumber drain cleaning snake.
- Next withdraw the snake and flush the pipe by inserting a garden hose with the water turned on full.
- Step 2: If it is a major clog a toilet snake or closet auger with a padded end is best to use.
verbsnāksneɪk no object, with adverbial of direction Move or extend with the twisting motion of a snake. Example sentencesExamples - It's quite impressive to see all the cars and trucks snaking down the hill and past the end of my road.
- A yellow extension cord snakes from the sculpture to the wall.
- If the thought of cables snaking across the living room is too much to live with, this virtual-surround system offers salvation.
- The road snaked upward, its old pavement cracked in places, making the ride a bit rough.
- Before them the land was reasonably flat, a single road snaking through the grass and disappearing into a wood not far away.
Synonyms twist, wind, twist and turn, meander, zigzag
Origin Old English snaca, of Germanic origin. |