Snake

Snake ¹  (snk)

n. pl. Snake or Snakes

See Shoshone.

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snake  (snk)

n.

1. Any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes or Ophidia (order Squamata), having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions.

2. A treacherous person. Also called snake in the grass.

3. A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains. Also called plumber's snake.

4. Economics A fixing of the value of currencies to each other within defined parameters, which when graphed visually shows these currencies remaining parallel in value to each other as a unit despite fluctuations with other currencies.

v. snaked, snak·ing, snakes

v.tr.

1. To drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain.

2. To pull with quick jerks.

3. To move in a sinuous or gliding manner: tried to snake the rope along the ledge.

v.intr.

To move with a sinuous motion: The river snakes through the valley.

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[Middle English, from Old English snaca.]

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snake

Noun

1. a long scaly limbless reptile

2. Also: (snake in the grass) a person, esp. a colleague or friend, who secretly acts against one

Verb

[snaking, snaked]

to glide or move in a winding course, like a snake [Old English snaca]

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Snake a term applied to things or a formation resembling a snake—Wilkes.

Examples: a black snake of men winding across the plain, 1891; snakes of ribbon, 1894.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	snake - limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous ophidian, serpent diapsid, diapsid reptile - reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye Ophidia, Serpentes, suborder Ophidia, suborder Serpentes - snakes colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes blind snake, worm snake - wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes constrictor - any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils elapid, elapid snake - any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres sea snake - any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom viper - venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw
	2.	snake - a deceitful or treacherous person snake in the grass bad person - a person who does harm to others
	3.	Snake - a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition Snake River Gem State, ID, Idaho - a state in the Rocky Mountains Beaver State, OR, Oregon - a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific Evergreen State, WA, Washington - a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific Equality State, WY, Wyoming - a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east Twin Falls, Twin - a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho
	4.	Snake - a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer Hydra
	5.	snake - something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" closet auger - a snake used to unblock toilets auger, plumber's snake - a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes trap-and-drain auger - a plumber's snake for clearing a trap and drain
Verb	1.	snake - move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake glide - move smoothly and effortlessly
	2.	snake - form a snake-like pattern; "The river snakes through the valley" curve, wind, twist - extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
	3.	snake - move along a winding path; "The army snaked through the jungle" meander, thread, wind, wander, weave - to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

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snake

noun 1. serpent,

verb 2. wind, twist, curve, turn, bend, ramble, meander, deviate, zigzag >> adjectives serpentine see see, reptiles

Translations

snake [sneɪk] n (gen) → serpiente f;

(harmless) → culebra;

(poisonous) → víbora

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snake [sneɪk] n → serpent m

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snake [sneɪk] n → Schlange f

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snake [sneɪk] n → serpente m