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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024snake /sneɪk/USA pronunciation n., v., snaked, snak•ing. n. [countable] - Reptilesa scaly reptile with a long thin body that has no arms or legs:Some snakes have a poisonous bite.
- a treacherous person.
- Building(in plumbing) a flexible, wirelike device for loosening anything stuck in curved pipes.
v. - to move, twist, or wind in the manner of a snake:[no object]The road snakes among the mountains.
- to wind or make (one's course, etc.) like a snake:[~ + object]She snaked her way through the crowd.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024snake (snāk),USA pronunciation n., v., snaked, snak•ing. n. - Reptilesany 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. Cf. snake in the grass. - Building
- 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.
v.i. - to move, twist, or wind:The road snakes among the mountains.
v.t. - 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, esp. by a chain or rope, as a log.
- bef. 1000; Middle English (noun, nominal); Old English snaca; cognate with Middle Low German snake, Old Norse snākr
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: snake /sneɪk/ n - 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
- Also called: snake 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
vb - (intransitive) to glide or move like a snake
- (transitive) to move in or follow (a sinuous course)
Etymology: Old English snaca; related to Old Norse snākr snake, Old High German snahhan to crawl, Norwegian snōk snailˈsnakeˌlike adj |