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单词 snailed
释义

snail

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noun

ˈsnāl How to pronounce snail (audio)
1
: a gastropod mollusk especially when having an external enclosing spiral shell
2
: a slow-moving or sluggish person or thing
snaillike
ˈsnāl-ˌlīk How to pronounce snail (audio)
adjective

snail

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verb

snailed; snailing; snails

intransitive verb

: to move, act, or go slowly or lazily

Synonyms

Noun

  • crawler
  • dallier
  • dawdler
  • dragger
  • laggard
  • lagger
  • lingerer
  • loiterer
  • plodder
  • slowpoke
  • straggler

Verb

  • crawl
  • creak (along)
  • creep
  • drag
  • inch
  • limp
  • nose
  • ooze
  • plod
  • poke
  • slouch
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Example Sentences

Noun go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up Verb the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
From a lovable sea sponge who owns a meowing pet snail to a kid with goldfish who are secretly fairies, Nicktoons have completely shaped pop culture. Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Sep. 2022 These chips are predation scars, evidence that, at some point in its life, this turban snail was attacked by a hungry crab. Marina Wanghakai, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022 There are also tile pieces in the walkway, a play piece that looks like a caterpillar that has bumps that are braille writing, and pieces that are supposed to be the antennas of the snail. Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022 The preparation is simple and all about the butter, which wafts up from those big, bulbous snail shells. Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2022 The Seminole school district provided laptops and other computer equipment, but students without broadband struggled with excruciatingly slow downloads of websites, frozen screens, or online lessons that moved at a snail’s pace. Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022 Frustrated by the snail-like pace of the talks, the Biden administration has repeatedly imposed deadlines in the past. Aaron David Miller, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022 The invasive giant African land snail—one of the most damaging snails in the world—has returned to Florida for the third time in the state’s history, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2022 When the law was updated in 1984 under Gov. George Deukmejian, the reference to invertebrates was removed, but the new law protected the Trinity bristle snail, an invertebrate mollusk that lives on land. Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2022
Verb
Davison and the scientists bred the lefty snails together, and over three years, nearly 15,000 eggs were hatched from four generations of snails, including Jeremy. Kristen Rogers, CNN, 2 June 2020 Cathy Jordan may die as this snails its way through the system. Dara Kam, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 July 2018 Cathy Jordan may die as this snails its way through the system. Dara Kam, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018 The investigators found that hungry caterpillars, which usually gorge on tomato leaves, had no appetite for them after the plants were exposed to snail slime and activated their chemical resistance. Erica Tennenhouse, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2018 Payments for premiums still cannot be processed online - people have to snail-mail checks to a CGI processor in Nebraska. Lynnley Browning, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2014 Ten minutes of the second half snailed by without anything more exciting happening than Ryan Bertrand missing a two-yard pass to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Old English snægl; akin to Old High German snecko snail, snahhan to creep

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1582, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

snail

noun

ˈsnāl How to pronounce snail (audio)
: a small slow-moving mollusk that has a spiral shell into which it can draw itself for safety and that can live either on land or in water

Medical Definition

snail

noun

ˈsnā(ə)l How to pronounce snail (audio)
: any of various gastropod mollusks and especially those having an external enclosing spiral shell including some which are important in medicine as intermediate hosts of trematodes

snailed

verb

past tense of snail
as in dragged
to move slowly the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • dragged
  • crawled
  • shuffled
  • crept
  • poked
  • limped
  • inched
  • slouched
  • plodded
  • oozed
  • nosed
  • trudged
  • shambled
  • tramped
  • creaked (along)
  • lumbered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sped
  • raced
  • flew
  • sailed
  • speeded
  • floated
  • glided
  • whizzed
  • hurried
  • zipped
  • tore
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