Snail

Definition: Snail

Snail

Noun

1. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.

2. Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic.

Verb

1. Gather snails: "We went snailing in the summer".

Date "snail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Snail vt. To snail-mail something. "Snail me a copy of those graphics, will you?". Source: Jargon File.
Bible	Snail (1.) Heb. homit, among the unclean creeping things (Lev. 11:30). This was probably the sand-lizard, of which there are many species in the wilderness of Judea and the Sinai peninsula. (2.) Heb. shablul (Ps. 58:8), the snail or slug proper. Tristram explains the allusions of this passage by a reference to the heat and drought by which the moisture of the snail is evaporated. "We find," he says, "in all parts of the Holy Land myriads of snail-shells in fissures still adhering by the calcareous exudation round their orifice to the surface of the rock, but the animal of which is utterly shrivelled and wasted, 'melted away.'" Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Dream Interpretation	Snails crawling in your dream, signifies that unhealthful conditions surround you. To step on them, denotes that you will come in contact with disagreeable people. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Snail

Synonym: escargot (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Slowness	Slow goer, slow coach, slow back; lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail; poke; dawdle; (inactive).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola)
Lyrics	Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail (EL CONDOR PASA (IF I COULD); performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)
Movie/TV Titles	The Snail (1918)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Hooray for Snail (Jp 087) (reference) Snail Trail (reference) Snaily Snail (Thingy Things) (reference) The Adventures of Snail at School (I Can Read) (reference) The Snail House (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Deadly Snail vs. Kung Fu Killer (reference) Adventures of Snelgrove the Snail (reference) Deadly Snail Vs. Kung Fu Killers (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Snail (reference) Snail Headed Victrolas (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Saint Hilaire Snail Hors D'oeuvre Pick Set (7-pc.) (reference) Atlas Homewares 165-V Snail Shell Knob-Verdigris 2'' (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Snail Room, CDC Animal Quarters. Credit: CDC.		A new species of snail fish discovered by Joe Eastman. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Cordgrass plant nearly covered at high tide. Note the periwinkle snail, Littorina irrorata, that has climbed high on the grass blade and avoided being covered by the tide. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).		Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Mud Snail, Batillaria attramentaria, is abundant on soft mud or high intertidal zones of quiet bays and estuaries from Boundary Bay, British Columbia, to Elkhorn Slough, California . The shell is long, slender, and about 35mm long. It was introduced from Japan to the U.S. and is common where Japanese oysters were planted. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).
	Flamingo tongue snail on a sea fan close-up. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.		Macro shot of a snail. Credit: Carol Kauder.
	Rogue River - Snail on Rogue River trail. Credit: Unknown.		Closeup shot of snail. Credit: John Craig.
	Snail culture room, used in the study of tropical diseases, National Institute of Health. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Lady with pet snail and man with sidewhiskers walking a sheep. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Charles H. Spurgeon	By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Alice in Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis	Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone, and thinking on poor England
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		These larvae swim in the water in search of a certain species of aquatic snail. (references)
		Larvae are generally infective for 24 hours once they are released from the snail. (references)
		New, slightly larger larvae, called cercariae, are released from the snail into the water. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Snail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.24% of the time. "Snail" is used about 254 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.24%	247	18,964
Noun (proper)	1.18%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.79%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.79%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	254	N/A

Expressions using "snail": Apple snail ♦ brown snail ♦ cinnamon snail ♦ Ear snail ♦ Edible snail ♦ garden snail ♦ Land snail ♦ Looping snail ♦ pond snail ♦ river snail ♦ Rosey cannibal snail ♦ sea snail ♦ snail bean ♦ snail borer ♦ snail butter ♦ snail clover ♦ snail darter ♦ snail flower ♦ snail mail ♦ snail medic ♦ snail shell ♦ snail trefoil ♦ snail wheel ♦ violet snail ♦ water snail. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "snail": snail-life, Snail-like, snail-mail, Snail-paced, snail-proof, snail-shaped, snail-shell, snail-slow, snail-trailing.
	Ending with "snail": anti-snail, Glass-snail, salt-snail.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "snail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përtac (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, faineant, good for nothing, idle, Idler, indolent, lazy, moocher, ne'er do well, otiose, poke, slacker, slothful, sluggard, sundowner, swabber, truant, twiddler), kërmill (cochlea, conch, slug). (various references)

Arabic		‏حلزون (helix, spiral, whelk), ‏الكسول (lazy, lazy-bones, loafer, shirker, slowpoke). (various references)

Aymara		ch'uru. (various references)

Basque		barraskilo. (various references)

Bulgarian		охлюв (cochlea, helix), муден човек (laggard, slowcoach, slowpoke), бавен човек (slowcoach, stick in the mud), плужек (slug). (various references)

Catalan		cargol (screw). (various references)

Chamorro		akaleha'. (various references)

Chinese		螺 (screw), 螄 , 蜗牛 (Snails), 蝓 , 蝸牛 . (various references)

Czech		hlemýžï, hlemýžď, šnek (scroll, worm). (various references)

Danish		snegl (auger, auger conveyor, conveying screw, feed screw, screw, screw conveyor, scroll, spiral conveyor, spiral-auger conveyor, worm, worm-type conveyor). (various references)

Dutch		huisjesslak, slak (cinder, slug). (various references)

Esperanto		heliko. (various references)

Faeroese		snigil (slug), kúvingur, gágga. (various references)

Farsi		نرم تن صدف دار (Shellfish), لیسک , وقت تلف کردن (Idle), انسان یاحیوان تنبل وکندرو, بشکل مارپیچ جلورفتن . (various references)

Finnish		etana (slug). (various references)

French		escargot, limaçon. (various references)

German		Schnecke (auger, cochlea, endless screw, escargot, scroll, slug, spiral staircase, volute, worm). (various references)

Greek		σαλιγκάρι (grapevine snail, large garden snail). (various references)

Hebrew		שבלול (cochlear, mussel, slug, spiral), חלזון (gastropod, slug, worm). (various references)

Hungarian		csiga (auger, pulley, tangent screw). (various references)

Indonesian		siput (crustacean, slug), keong, gondang (slug). (various references)

Irish		seilide (slug). (various references)

Italian		chiocciola (atpersand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蝸牛 , 舞舞 , 巻貝 (spiral shell), 巻き貝 (spiral shell), エコロジー運動 (ecological movement, Edison, ego, egotism, egotist, egotistic, Egypt, Esaki diode, escalate, escalation, escalator, escalope, ESCAP, Eskimo, sado-masochism, Save Our Souls, science fiction, SF, shallot, sister, sketch, Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, SOS). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まきがい (spiral shell), まいまい (always, each time, frequently), でんでんむし, かぎゅう, かたつむり, エスカルゴ . (various references)

Korean		달팽이 (Snails). (various references)

Manx		strammag, lhummag, crammag. (various references)

Maya		uul. (various references)

Occitan		cagaraula. (various references)

Pig Latin		ailsnay.(various references)

Portuguese		caracol (caracole, caracul, coil, curl, helix). (various references)

Romanian		spiralã (convolution, curl, helix, spiral, spire, volute, winding), melc (slug, worm, worm-screw). (various references)

Romansch		serp. (various references)

Russian		улитка (cochlea). (various references)

Scottish		seilcheag (a snail). (various references)

Sepedi		kgohu. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zavojnica u satu, puž. (various references)

Shona		hozhwe. (various references)

Spanish		caracol (seashell, Winkle). (various references)

Sranan		pakro. (various references)

Swazi		um-nenkhé. (various references)

Swedish		snigel (slug), snäcka (fusee, periwinkle, scroll, shell, worm), skalsnigel. (various references)

Thai		หอยทาก. (various references)

Turkish		salyangoz dişli çarkı (snail wheel), salyangoz (escargot, helix, Winkle), sümüklüböcek (crawler, helix, slug), yavaş hareket eden kimse, uyuşuk tip (do-little, poke, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick in the mud). (various references)

Ukrainian		слимак (slug), равлик (argonaut), тихохід. (various references)

Vietnamese		con sên người chậm như sên, con ốc sên. (various references)

Welsh		malwoden. (various references)

Yucatec		urich. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	kokhlias. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cocleam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 30
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Mugalh kai camailewn kai kalabwthV kai saura kai aspalax
Latin	405	Vulgate	Migale et cameleon et stelio ac lacerta et talpa
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	A mygal, `that is a beeste born trecherows to bigile, and moost gloterous, a camelion, `that is a beeste varyed in to diuerse colours, after diuerse lokingis, and a stellioun, `that is a werme depeyntid as with sterris, and a lacert, `that is a serpent that is clepid a liserd, and a moldwerp.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	The hedgehogge, stellio, the licerte, the snayle and the moule.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And the ferret and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And the ferret and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand-lizard and the chameleon.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 30
Cebuano	Ug ang tuko, ug ang banghitaw, ug ang taluto, ug ang tabili, ug ang chameleon.
Chinese	壁虎、龍子、守宮、蛇醫、蝘蜓．
Croatian	zidni macaklin, kameleon, daždevnjak, zelembaæ i tinšamet.
Danish	Anakaen, Koadyret, Letåen, Homedyret og Tinsjemetdyret.
Dutch	En de zwijnegel, en de krokodil, en de hagedis, en de slak, en de mol;
Finnish	anaka-eläin, kooah-eläin, letaa-eläin, hoomet-eläin ja kameleontti.
French	le hérisson, la grenouille, la tortue, le limaçon et le caméléon.
German	der Igel, der Molch, die Eidechse, die Blindschleiche und der Maulwurf;
Haitian Creole	zandolit, soud, mabouya, gongolo, aganman.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	dan bingkarung dan tokeh dan kubin dan unam dan mondok.
Italian	il toporagno, la lucertola, il geco, il ramarro, il camaleonte.
Maori	Me te koka, me te korokotaera, me te mokomoko, me te moeone, me te kamiriona.
Norwegian	og pinnsvinet og jordrotten og padden og sneglen og kameleonen. # < Betydningen av de hebraiske navn er usikker.>
Portuguese	o musaranho, o crocodilo da água, a lagartixa, o lagarto e a toupeira.
Rumanian	ariciul, broasca, broasca yestoasq, melcul wi cameleonul.
Russian	БОБЛБ, ИБНЕМЕПО, МЕФББ, ИПНЕФ Й ФЙОЫЕНЕФ, --
Swedish	anakan, koadjuret, letaan, hometdjuret och kameleonten.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "snail": snailed, snailing, snaillike, snails. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Snail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esnal, Nsai, nsaid, Nsais, sais, sanal, Sanel, sanhailt, sanil, sanilav, Sanjib, Sanjiv, savile, scail, seail, senial, sinal, Sincil, skail, smali, snaa, snaid, snaily, snair, snaiv, snal, snale, snaok, snau, snazi, snil, snool, snuil, spail, swail. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "snail" (pronounced snā"l)
3	-n ā" l	nail.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: anils, nails, slain.
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-s"
	-1 letter: ails, ains, anil, anis, lain, lins, nail, nils, sail, sain, sial.
	-2 letters: ail, ain, ais, als, ani, ins, las, lin, lis, nil, sal, sin.
	-3 letters: ai, al, an, as, in, is, la, li, na, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-s"
	+1 letter: ablins, algins, aliens, aligns, alines, aloins, anvils, blains, elains, finals, inlays, instal, island, lanais, lapins, lasing, lianas, lianes, liangs, ligans, limans, linacs, lingas, nasial, plains, salina, saline, signal, silane, silvan, snails, spinal, vinals.
	+2 letters: ablings, agnails, aiblins, ainsell, alanins, albinos, aldrins, alevins, alexins, aliners, alkines, alnicos, alpines, alumins, anilins, animals, anisole, basinal, calkins, caplins, carlins, catlins, denials, elastin, elysian, entails, finales, finalis, finials, flavins, gingals, hyalins, incisal, inclasp, infalls, inhales, inhauls, inlaces, inlands, install, instals, insular, inulase, inwalls, islands, jingals, kalians, kaolins, lacings, ladings, ladinos, lakings, laminas, lapsing, lashing, lashins, lasting, latinos, lattins, lawines, lawings, leasing, lesbian, liaison, ligands, linages, lingams, linsang, maligns, malines, malison, malkins, manilas, marlins, menials, mislain, misplan, nailers, nailset, nastily, nilgais, nilgaus, oilcans, palings, paulins, pineals, plaints, planish, plasmin, ratlins, renails, sailing, saintly, salicin, salient, salinas, salines, salpian, salpinx, saltine, salting, salving, sanicle, sapling, scaleni, scaling, sealing, seminal, signals, silanes, silvans, slainte, slaking, slating, slaving, slaying, snailed, snakily, solanin, spaniel, spinals, spinula, splenia, staling, sundial, talions, tenails, tincals, uncials, unnails, urinals, valines.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
snail	1,135	mail pal snail	21
snail mail pen pal	181	silver snail	20
snail mail	91	cone snail	20
snail picture	74	snail eggs	20
apple snail	56	mancala snail	20
aquarium snail	54	food snail	18
sea snail	40	fresh snail water	17
snail farming	39	snail reproduction	17
land snail	39	snail snips	17
eat snail	39	pal pen snail	17
snail and slug	38	snail mail sweepstake	17
a snail pace	31	snail vine	15
pond snail	30	snail information	15
garden snail	29	archive snail	15
gary snail	28	kill snail	13
moon snail	28	snail breeding	13
freshwater snail	26	turbo snail	13
snail water	23	as pet snail	13
mystery snail	21	bait snail	12
pet snail	21	ramshorn snail	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Snail" by Jonas Funk Johannessen Commentary: "Close up of snail."	"Snail" by Christian Simon Commentary: "A snail in moss."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Snail

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Slowness

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Charles H. Spurgeon

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Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

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