Meaning

10 senses
  1. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.

    Schlange, Wurm

    змея́zmejá

    змія́zmijá

    something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

  2. (figuratively)A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.

    Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer

    Verräter, Betrüger, Windei

    змея́zmejá, гадю́каgadjúka, гадgad

    a deceitful or treacherous person

  3. A tool for unclogging plumbing.

    Abflussspirale

    сантехни́ческий тросsantexníčeskij tros

  4. A tool to aid cable pulling.

  5. (Australia, UK)A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.

  6. (slang)Trouser snake; the penis.

  7. A series of Bézier curves.

  8. The seventh Lenormand card.

  9. (Multicultural London English)An informer; a rat.

    Gem’s a snake for Kamale, man.

  10. (slang)A person who interferes with another's run or who takes their run out of turn.

Examples

638 sentences
  1. Is the snake alive or dead?

    Ця змія жива чи мертва?

    ruЭта змея жива или мертва?

    deIst die Schlange tot oder lebendig?

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  2. I saw a snake eating a mouse.

    Я бачив, як змія їсть мишу.

    ruЯ видел, как змея ест мышь.

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  3. Seen from the sky, the river looked like a huge snake.

    З висоти річка була схожа на величезну змію.

    ruС высоты река была похожа на огромную змею.

    deVom Himmel aus sah der Fluss wie eine riesige Schlange aus.

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  4. Is the snake alive?

    Змія жива?

    ruЗмея живая?

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  5. Tom saw a snake.

    Том бачив змію.

    ruТом увидел змею.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
legless reptile:
Русский
By meaning 3
legless reptile:
treacherous person:
plumbing tool:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
legless reptile:
treacherous person:
plumbing tool:

Origin

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”).

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Forms

plural: snakes
Singularsnake
Pluralsnakes

regular

Synonyms

73 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous:serpentophidian
  • a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition:Snake River
  • a deceitful or treacherous person:snake in the grass
  • a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes:plumber's snakeauger
  • a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer:Hydra

Word family

188 related words

Collocations

11 patterns
  • snakes snakes
  • of snakes snakes
  • afraid of snakes
  • scared of snakes
  • snakes snakes in
  • garter snakes snakes
  • snakes snakes are
  • by a snake
  • with garter snakes
  • saw a snake
  • garter snakes

See also

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