different between snake vs constrictor

English

Etymology

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-Germanic *snakô (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”)), derived from *snakan? (“to crawl”) (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *sneg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”). Cognate with Sanskrit ??? (n?gá, “snake”)). Doublet of n?ga.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?k, IPA^(key): /?sne?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

snake (plural snakes)

1. A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

   Synonyms: joe blake, serpent
2. A treacherous person.
3. (Ireland) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
4. A tool for unclogging plumbing.

   Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake

5. A tool to aid cable pulling.

   Synonym: wirepuller

6. (Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
7. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

   Synonym: trouser snake

8. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
9. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: sneki

Translations

Verb

snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)

1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

   Synonyms: slither, wind

2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

5. (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

Translations

See also

• anguine

Further reading

• snake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kasen, Keans, akens, asken, kaens, kenas, nakes, skean, sneak

Middle English

Alternative forms

• snak, snaca

Etymology

From Old English snaca, from Proto-Germanic *snakô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sna?k(?)/

Noun

snake (plural snakes or snaken or snake)

1. snake
2. serpent

Descendants

• English: snake
  • Sranan Tongo: sneki
• Scots: snak, snake, snaik

References

• “sn?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin c?nstrictor, or from constrict +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?st??k.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?st??k.t?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)

Noun

constrictor (plural constrictors or constrictores)

1. That which constricts or tightens:
   1. (anatomy) A muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage or compresses an organ.

      Hyponyms: bronchoconstrictor, vasoconstrictor

      1. (anatomy) Each of the muscles which constrict the pharynx; ellipsis of pharyngeal constrictor.
   2. Ellipsis of boa constrictor: a python or similar snake that kills by constriction.

Derived terms

• bronchoconstrictor
• constrictor knot
• vasoconstrictor

Translations

References

• “constrictor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “constrictor”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

From c?nstring? (“to draw or bind together; to compress”) +? -tor (“-er, -or”).

Pronunciation

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?strik.tor/, [k?n?st??ikt??r]

Noun

c?nstrictor m (genitive c?nstrict?ris); third declension (New Latin)

1. That which constricts; constrictor.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: constrictor
• French: constricteur
• Italian: costrittore
• Spanish: constrictor

Romanian

Etymology

From French constricteur.

Adjective

constrictor m or n (feminine singular constrictoare, masculine plural constrictori, feminine and neuter plural constrictoare)

1. constrictor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Formed from the root of Latin constrictus, with the suffix -or; equivalent to New Latin constrictor.

Adjective

constrictor (feminine constrictora, masculine plural constrictores, feminine plural constrictoras)

1. constricting

Related terms

• constricción