different between snout vs rostral

English

Etymology

From Middle English snowte, snoute, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German snute (alternatively spelled snuut, snuyt), lastly from Proto-Germanic *sn?taz, but further origin unknown. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute, Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Schnauze, Schnute. Doublet of snoot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sna?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /sn??t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

snout (plural snouts)

1. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

2. The front of the prow of a ship or boat. [First attested in 1387.]
3. (derogatory) A person's nose.
4. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

5. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
6. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
8. (Britain, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
   • 1967, Len Deighton, Only When I Larf

     (Bob, p. 55:) Charlie was the most vicious screw on the block ... He caught me with the two ounces of snout right in my hand, caught me by the hair, and swung me round in the exercise yard ...

     (Spider, p. 175:) She brings me snout and sweets, and sometimes a cake from Mum.

   • 1982, Edward Bond, Saved

     LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten?

   • 2000, Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You

     Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout." I said I would provide cigarettes.

   • 2004, Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories

     Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about some snout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.

9. The terminus of a glacier.
10. (slang) A police informer.
11. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

Translations

Verb

snout (third-person singular simple present snouts, present participle snouting, simple past and past participle snouted)

1. To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Further reading

• snout (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Notus, Tuson, noust, nouts, nutso, tonus

Middle English

Noun

snout

1. Alternative form of snowte

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st??l

Adjective

rostral (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Relating to the rostrum.
2. Serving as a rostrum.

   rostral column

Antonyms

• caudal

Translations

Noun

rostral (plural rostrals)

1. A scale in reptiles on the median plate of the tip of the snout that borders the mouth opening.

French

Adjective

rostral (feminine singular rostrale, masculine plural rostraux, feminine plural rostrales)

1. rostral

Derived terms

• rostralement

Portuguese

Adjective

rostral m or f (plural rostrais, comparable)

1. (anatomy) rostral (in the direction of the rostrum)
2. rostral (serving as a rostrum)

Romanian

Etymology

From French rostral, from Latin rostralis.

Adjective

rostral m or n (feminine singular rostral?, masculine plural rostrali, feminine and neuter plural rostrale)

1. rostral

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

rostral (plural rostrales)

1. (anatomy) rostral