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snake (sn k)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.
[Middle English, from Old English snaca.] |
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] 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.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | snake - limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomousconstrictor - 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 | | 3. | Snake - a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionEquality State, WY, Wyoming - a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east | | 4. | Snake - a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer | | 5. | snake - something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snakeobject, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" | | Verb | 1. | snake - move smoothly and sinuously, like a snakeglide - 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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