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snake
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)
- A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
- Synonyms: joe blake, serpent
- A treacherous person.
- (Ireland) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- Synonym: wirepuller
- (Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Synonym: trouser snake
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- Synonyms: slither, wind
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
- (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?)
- (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)
- snake
- 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.
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polyiamond
English
Etymology
Blend of poly- +? diamond, the polyiamond made up of two triangles being a diamond or rhombus.
Noun
polyiamond (plural polyiamonds)
- (geometry) A polyform made by joining one or more equilateral triangles edge to edge in various arrangements.
Synonyms
- n-iamond
Derived terms
Related terms
- diamond
- polyomino
See also
- bar
- butterfly
- chevron
- crook
- crown
- hexagon
- hook
- lobster
- signpost
- snake
- sphinx
- yacht
Anagrams
- polydomain
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