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"SNAKES" is a plural of: snake. |
Date "SNAKES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | For a woman to dream that a dead snake is biting her, foretells she will suffer from malice of a pretended friend. To dream of snakes, is a foreboding of evil in its various forms and stages. To see them wriggling and falling over others, foretells struggles with fortune and remorse. To kill them, you will feel that you have used every opportunity of advancing your own interests, or respecting that of others. You will enjoy victory over enemies. To walk over them, you will live in constant fear of sickness, and selfish persons will seek to usurp your place in your companion's life. If they bite you, you will succumb to evil influences, and enemies will injure your business. To dream that a common spotted snake approaches you from green herbs, and you quickly step aside as it passes you, and after you had forgotten the incident to again see it approaching and growing in dimensions as it nears you, finally taking on the form of an enormous serpent; if you then, after frantic efforts, succeed in escaping its attack, and altogether lose sight of it, it foretells that you will soon imagine you are being disobeyed and slighted, and things will go on from bad to worse. Sickness, uneasiness and unkindness will increase to frightful proportions in your mind; but they will adjust themselves to a normal basis, and by the putting aside of imaginary trouble, and masterfully shouldering duties, you will be contented and repaid. To dream that a snake coils itself around you and darts its tongue out at you, is a sign that you will be placed in a position where you will be powerless in the hands of enemies, and you will be attacked with sickness. To handle them, you will use strategy to aid in overthrowing opposition. To see hairs turn into snakes, foretells that seeming insignificant incidents will make distressing cares for you. If snakes turn into unnatural shapes, you will have troubles which will be dispelled if treated with indifference, calmness and will power. To see or step on snakes while wading or bathing, denotes that there will be trouble where unalloyed pleasure was anticipated. To see them bite others, foretells that some friend will be injured and criticised by you. To see little snakes, denotes you will entertain persons with friendly hospitality who will secretly defame you and work to overthrow your growing prospects. To see children playing with them, is a sign that you will be nonplussed to distinguish your friends from your enemies. For a woman to think a child places one on the back of her head, and she hears the snake's hisses, foretells that she will be persuaded to yield up some possession seemingly for her good, but she will find out later that she has been inveigled into an intrigue in which enemies will tantalize her. To see snakes raising up their heads in a path just behind your friend, denotes that you will discover a conspiracy which has been formed to injure your friend and also yourself. To think your friend has them under control, denotes that some powerful agency will be employed in your favor to ward off evil influences. For a woman to hypnotize a snake, denotes your rights will be assailed, but you will be protected by law and influential friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Suborder Serpentes; classe Reptiles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SNAKESSynonym: Serpents. (additional references) |
Crosswords: SNAKES |
| Specialty definitions using "SNAKES": animal bites ♦ CERBERUS, Cobra Venoms, Crotalid Venoms ♦ Elapid Venoms ♦ GEOLOGY ♦ Hundred-handed, Hydrophid Venoms ♦ Illumination ♦ Kitten ♦ MARCH 17, Mongooses ♦ PATRICK, Potable ♦ rash, REPTILE FARMER, Rodrigo ♦ Salmonella arizonae, Sardonic Smile, Grin, or Laughter, SIMABA CEDRON, Snakes in his Boots ♦ Viper Venoms. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SNAKES": Vernation. (references) |
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Screenplays | Watch out for snakes! (Eegah; writing credit: Arch Hall Sr.; Bob Wehling) Snakes, alligators, quicksand all bent on one thing: destruction. (Bride of the Monster; writing credit: Edward D. Wood Jr.; Alex Gordon) I hate snakes, Jock! (Raiders of the Lost Ark; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman) Not blood, not snakes or rats, not even heightsEveryone has something that makes their skin crawl. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) Giant snakes with two heads. (Malá morská vla; writing credit: Hans Christian Andersen; Ota Hofman) | |
Lyrics | You see the snakes in the grass and you wait on their ass (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z) And sometimes far too long for snakes (BLACK HOLE SUN; performing artist: Soundgarden) | |
Tongue Twisters | Strict strong stringy Stephen Stretch slickly snared six sickly silky snakes. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Aches and Snakes (1973) Queen of Snakes Elge (1965) How Huang Fei-hong Conquered the Two Dragons with the Five Snakes (1958) Great Snakes (1920) | |
Song Titles | Spiders & Snakes (performing artist: Jim Stafford) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A good place for crocodiles and snakes Boat off the MARINDUQUE in a jungle stream. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Measuring a base line through the tall sawgrass Look out for snakes!. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A sea snake caught during dipnetting operations off the NOAA Ship McARTHUR during STAR 2000. These snakes are poisonous and very dangerous. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | The Gorgon -- the namesake of Isla Gorgona, known for its snakes. Credit: Small World. |
 | A boa constrictor in the bushes of Isla Gorgona. The island has numerous snakes making it dangerous to proceed into the jungle or even to camp overnight. Credit: Small World. |  | Snakes. Credit: Bob Savannah. |
 | The good St. Ingersoll calling the banished snakes back to the national boots. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Snakes in water. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Oregon. - The new Indian war - attack by the Umatilla Indians upon hostile snakes, July 2d - the Umatilla chief calling his braves together by the looking-glass signal / sketched by an army officer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reptiles. Snakes in National Zoological Park I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Saint Patrick | All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands. |
Steven Wright | Even snakes are afraid of snakes. |
Walt Whitman | This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her childhood impressed her as a time when there were only centipedes, spiders, and snakes about her. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The tenants cried, Grampa killed Indians, Pa killed snakes for the land. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Snakes, birds, frogs, and fish cannot get rabies. (references) | |
They also eat berries, nuts, eggs, snakes, and turtles. (references) | ||
Encourage the presence of natural predators, such as non-poisonous snakes, owls and hawks. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice. "Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash." "Nay, this child makes no bet." "Great snakes! How can you be so rash?" Bootle P. Gish |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SNAKES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 86.53% of the time. "SNAKES" is used about 386 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 (plural) | 86.53% | 334 | 15,701 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.99% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 6.48% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 386 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SNAKES": giant snakes ♦ raise snakes ♦ see snakes ♦ snakes and ladders. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SNAKES": snakes-and-ladders. | |
Ending with "SNAKES": sea-snakes, tree-snakes. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
boa constrictor snakes.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SNAKES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 虺 (poisonous snakes, sick, with no ambition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slanger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slangen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | serpents. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlangen (serpents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οφίδια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zajong (bluster, clamor, clamour, make a noise, make noise, to be obstreperous, to din, to jangle, to make noise, to wake snakes), lármát csap (kick up a row, to racket, to wake snakes), felfordulást csinál (to play hob, to raise hob, to topsy-turvy, to wake snakes, topsy turvy), fehér egereket lát (to see snakes), delírium tremense van (to see snakes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | serpenti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | akessnay serpentes, cobras, cobras (colubrid snakes). (various references) provoca cearta (raise snakes), face scandal (bluster, huff, kick up the dust, make a dust, make a scene, raise gain, raise snakes, raise the devil). (various references) ormar. (various references) sarhoş olup yılanlar gördüğünü sanmak (see snakes), fitil gibi sarhoş olmak (see snakes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Serpentes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 3, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TafoV anewgmenoV o larugx autwn taiV glwssaiV autwn edoliousan ioV aspidwn upo ta ceilh autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sepulchrum patens est guttur eorum linguis suis dolose agebant venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Sind goman hierabyrgena bealwa, ...... beorgas geopenodswearte þa tungan ...... swicdom gewyrcað c hiera sind weleras ...... wyrm-attre gewelgod d |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The throte of hem is an opyn sepulcre; with her tungis thei diden gilefuli; the venym of snakis is vndur her lippis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Their throte is an open sepulchre with their tounges they have disceaved: the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips: |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 3, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | "Ang ilang totunlan maoy usa ka lubong inukban, ang ilang mga dila ginagamit nila aron sa paglimbong." Ang lala sa mga bitin anaa sa ilalum sa ilang mga ngabil." |
| Croatian | Grob otvoren grlo je njihovo, jezikom lažno laskaju, pod usnama im je otrov ljutièin, |
| Danish | "En åbnet Grav er deres Strube; med deres Tunger øvede de Svig;" "der er Slangegift under deres Læber;" |
| Dutch | Hun keel is een geopend graf; met hun tongen plegen zij bedrog; slangenvenijn is onder hun lippen. |
| Finnish | Heidän kurkkunsa on avoin hauta, kielellänsä he pettävät, kyykäärmeen myrkkyä on heidän huultensa alla; |
| French | Leur gosier est un sépulcre ouvert; Ils se servent de leurs langues pour tromper; Ils ont sous leurs lèvres un venin d`aspic; |
| German | Ihr Schlund ist ein offenes Grab; mit ihren Zungen handeln sie trüglich. Otterngift ist unter den Lippen; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tenggorokan mereka bagaikan kuburan yang terbuka. Tipu daya mengalir dari lidah mereka, dan bibir mereka menyemburkan fitnah, seperti bisa ular. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | maka kerongkongnya itu seperti kubur yang terbuka; dengan lidahnya mereka itu membuat tipu daya, maka bisa ular tedung itu ada di bibirnya, |
| Italian | La loro gola è un sepolcro spalancato, tramano inganni con la loro lingua, veleno di serpenti è sotto le loro labbra, |
| Maori | He urupa puare noa to ratou korokoro; e patipati ana o ratou arero; kei roto i o ratou ngutu te wai whakamate o nga nakahi: |
| Norwegian | Deres strupe er en åpnet grav; med sine tunger gjorde de svik, ormegift er under deres leber. |
| Portuguese | A sua garganta é um sepulcro aberto; com as suas línguas tratam enganosamente; peçonha de áspides está debaixo dos seus lábios; |
| Rumanian | Gktlejul lor este un mormknt deschis; se slujesc de limbile lor ca sq knwele; supt buze au venin de aspidq; |
| Russian | зПТФБОШ ЙИ--ПФЛТЩФЩК ЗТП'; СЪЩЛПН УЧПЙН П'НБОЩЧБАФ; С" БУ Й"ПЧ ОБ ЗХ'БИ ЙИ. |
| Shuar | Ashí yajauch chichainiak iwiarsamu yama urainiua Núnisan ainiawai. Ni chichamejai tuke anankartin ainiawai. Chichame Napía aintsan najamin ainiawai. |
| Spanish | Sepulcro abierto es su garganta; con su lengua engañan. Hay veneno de serpiente debajo de sus labios; |
| Swahili | Makoo yao ni kama kaburi wazi, ndimi zao zimejaa udanganyifu, midomoni mwao mwatoka maneno yenye sumu kama ya nyoka. |
| Swedish | En öppen grav är deras strupe, sina tungor bruka de till svek. Huggormsgift är inom deras läppar. |
| Uma | "Babo' pai' me'eai' lolita-ra, Lolita mpebagiu mehupa' hi wiwi-ra." Lolita-ra mpopedahi nono doo hewa petilo' dalimoo'." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SNAKES": snakeskin, snakeskins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SNAKES": blacksnakes, rattlesnakes. (additional references) | |
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"SNAKES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nakes, Sances, sankeys, scakes, snaca, snakke, snaks, snaue, snuke. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SNAKES" (pronounced snā"ks) |
| 3 | -ā" k s | aches, bakes, brakes, breaks, cakes, drakes, fakes, flakes, hakes, Jakes, lakes, makes, mistakes, quakes, rakes, remakes, sakes, shakes, stakes, steaks, takes, wakes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: skeans, sneaks. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: kanes, sakes, sanes, sensa, skean, snake, sneak. | |
-2 letters: anes, asks, kaes, kane, keas, kens, ness, sake, sane, sank, sans, seas, skas. | |
-3 letters: ane, ask, ass, ens, ess, kae, kas, kea, ken, nae, sae, sea, sen, ska. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, as, en, es, ka, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: ankuses, kinases, skeanes. | |
+2 letters: ankushes, dankness, darkness, kamseens, kyanises, lankness, packness, rankness, sealskin, sinkages, slackens, snakiest, sneakers, spankers, swankest, unspeaks, weakness. | |
+3 letters: alikeness, ankyloses, askewness, balkiness, banksides, bearskins, blackness, blankness, bleakness, capeskins, flakiness, frankness, gawkiness, hawknoses, kaiserins, khamseens, lankiness, larkiness, leakiness, nakedness, namesakes, newshawks, newspeaks, redshanks, sealskins, shakiness, skinheads, skiplanes, slackness, snakeskin, snarkiest, sneakiest, speakings, spokesman, starkness, swankiest, tackiness, talkiness, thankless, unmaskers, wackiness. | |
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