different between clams vs snail
clams
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæmz/
- Rhymes: -æmz
Noun
clams
- plural of clam
Verb
clams
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clam
Anagrams
- ALCMs, calms
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snail
English
Etymology
From the Middle English snaile, snayle, from the Old English sne?el, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sn?l
- IPA(key): /sne?l/, [sn?e???]
- Rhymes: -e?l
Noun
snail (plural snails)
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- The pod of the snail clover.
Synonyms
- dodman, hodmandod (East Anglia, dialectal)
Derived terms
- snail trefoil (Medicago scutellata)
- snail mail
- snail's pace
Translations
See also
- heliciculture
- slug
Verb
snail (third-person singular simple present snails, present participle snailing, simple past and past participle snailed)
- To move or travel very slowly.
Anagrams
- Lains, Lians, Nilas, Sinla, anils, lains, nails, nilas, salin, slain
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- what snails are edible
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