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Definition: Snake |
SnakeNoun1. Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous. 2. A deceitful or treacherous person. 3. A tributary of the Columbia River. 4. A long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer. 5. Something resembling a snake. Verb1. Move smoothly, like a snake. 2. Form a snake-like pattern; "The river snakes through the valley". 3. Move along a winding path; "The army snaked through the jungle". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
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Industry | A wavy cut(i. e. deviating from the saw line). Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Unclear. Definition: A cable set in which several individual signal lines enclosed in a single housing. Context: . Social Source: Sound technician. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Snakes Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Sub-order: Serpentes The snakes or serpents are legless reptiles, some of which have a venomous bite which they use to kill their prey before eating it. Other snakes kill their prey by constriction, for example strangulation.
Snakes are closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. There are also several species of legless lizard which superficially resemble snakes, but are not otherwise related to them.
Although they may be venomous and have a bad reputation, snakes do not not prey on humans. Most snakes will attack a human being only if startled or injured. If you look where you are walking and make plenty of noise, a snake will get out of your way rather than waiting for you to step on it. In many areas, most snakes are non-venomous or have venom that is not harmful to humans, and are Colubrid. Australia is an exception - most snakes in Australia are extremely venomous and should be given a very wide berth.
All snakes are carnivorous, eating small animals, birds or insects. Snakes do not chew their food. Snakes have very flexible lower jaws, the two halves of which are not rigidly attached, allowing them to open their mouths wide enough to swallow their prey whole, even if it is larger in diameter than the snake itself. Contrary to the popular myth, at no point do they "unhinge" their jaws (disarticulate their mandibular joints). After eating, snakes become torpid while the process of digestion takes place.
The skin is covered in scales. Most snakes use specialized belly scales to move, gripping surfaces. Their eyelids are permanently closed but transparent "spectacle" scales. They shed their skin periodically. Unlike other reptiles, this is done in one piece, like pulling off a sock. It is thought that the primary purpose of this is to remove external parasites. This periodic renewal has led to the snake being a symbol of healing and medicine, as pictured in the Rod of Asclepius
Detailed vision is limited, but does not prevent detection of movement. A subgroup of snakes called the pit vipers have infrared sensitve receptors in deep grooves between the nostril and eye which allow them to 'see' the heat radiated by animals. Hearing is restricted to the sensing of ground vibrations, as snakes have no external ears. A snake smells through its nose, and the tongue passes airborne particles to the Jacobson's organ in the mouth for examination. The left lung is very small or sometimes even absent, as snakes' tubular bodies require all of their organs to be long and thin, and to accommodate them all only one lung is functional.
some well known snake species are: American Copperhead, King Cobra, Australian copperheads, Rat Snake, Milk Snake, king snakes.
Classification
Order:Squamata
Web link: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/families/taxa.html.
- Suborder Serpentes
- Superfamily Typhlopoidea (Scolecophidia)
- Family Anomalepidae: dawn blind snakes
- Family Typhlopidae: blind Snakes
- Family Leptotyphlopidae /Glauconiidae: slender blind snakes
- Superfamily Henophidia (Boidea)
- Family Aniliidae /Ilysiidae: pipe snakes
- Family Anomochilidae dwarf pipe snakes
- Family Boidae: boas and pythons
- Family Bolyeridae: Round Island boas
- Family Cylindrophiidae: Asian pipe snakes
- Family Loxocemidae: Mexican burrowing pythons
- Family Tropidophiidae
- Family Ungaliophiidae: dwarf boas
- Family Uropeltidae: shield-tail Snakes
- Family Xenopeltidae: Sunbeam Snakes
- Superfamily Xenophidia (Colubroidea = Caenophidia)
- Family Acrochordidae: file snakes
- Family Atractaspididae : mole vipers
- Family Colubridae: colubrids
- Family Elapidae: cobras, kraits, coral snakes
- Family Hydrophiidae: sea snakes
- Family Viperidae: vipers and pit vipers
Miscellaneous
Some of the constellations of the sky are symbolised after snakes. Serpens represents a snake being tamed by the snake-handler Ophiuchus. Hydra is the many-headed serpent killed by Heracles. Hydrus, the water snake, is a minor southern constellation.Snake is considered as a symbol of evil in Christianity.
The Snake is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal in the Chinese zodiac is associated with certain personality traits. See: Snake (Zodiac).
The Snake is also the name of a river in the western United States of America (See Snake River.)
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Snake is a fictional character in the cartoon series The Simpsons. He is Springfield's resident recidivist felon, always getting arrested but never appearing to stay in jail. He is partial to fast cars and fast women and has a knack for reckless abandon. His car's name is Lil'Bandit.See: Characters from The Simpsons
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Snake is a video game the is best known in the late 1990s as an addictive game on cellphones. It is a relatively simple program involving a long, thin creature that roams around, picking up food (or some other such item), trying to avoid hitting its own tail or the "walls" around it. Each time the snake eats a piece of food, its tail grows longer, thus making the game more and more difficult. The user controls the direction of the snake's head (up, down, left, or right), and the snake's body follows.Some better-known versions include the Neopets example, which is known as "Meerca Chase."
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The snake is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal is associated with certain personality traits.People who have this Chinese sign are:
See also: Snake
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The Snake River is a river in the western part of the United States. The Snake River is 1,038 miles (1,670 km) in length, and is the Columbia River's main tributary. The Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-6) was the first major U.S. exploration of the river. Once known as the Lewis River, the Snake originates at Yellowstone National Park in NW Wyoming, flows through Jackson Lake in the Grand Teton National Park. The river passes through Idaho where it cascades down several notable falls, and passes the cities of Twin Falls and Boise, and flows north along the Idaho/Oregon border, through Hell's Canyon, and past the cities Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Washington. It then flows into Washington, through many hydroelectric dams and finally joins the Columbia River near Pasco, Washington.Tributaries of the Snake include Henrys Fork River, the Boise River, the Salmon River, and the Clearwater River.
The Snake River's many hydroelectric power plants are a major source of electricity in the region. Its watershed provides irrigation for various projects, including the Minidoka, Boise, Palisades, and Owyhee projects by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, as well as a variety of private projects such as at Twin Falls.
The Snake runs through a number of gorges. The gorges include one of the deepest in the world, Hell's Canyon, with a maximum depth of 7,900 feet (2,410 m).
The name "Snake" possibly derived from an S-shaped (snake) sign which the Shoshone Indians made with their hands to mimic swimming salmon. The uppermost part of the river, from the point where Henrys Fork enters, is referred to informally as the South Fork Snake River.
Variant Names:
Counties through which the Snake flows:
- Great Snake River
- Lewis Fork
- Lewis River
- Mad River
- Saptin River
- Shoshone River
- Yam-pah-pa
Source for some material: U.S. Geological Survey
- Franklin County, Washington
- Walla Walla County, Washington
- Columbia County, Washington
- Whitman County, Washington
- Garfield County, Washington
- Asotin County, Washington
- Nez Perce County, Idaho
- Wallowa County, Oregon
- Idaho County, Idaho
- Adams County, Idaho
- Baker County, Oregon
- Washington County, Idaho
- Malheur County, Oregon
- Payette County, Idaho
- Canyon County, Idaho
- Owyhee County, Idaho
- Ada County, Idaho
- Elmore County, Idaho
- Gooding County, Idaho
- Twin Falls County, Idaho
- Jerome County, Idaho
- Cassia County, Idaho
- Minidoka County, Idaho
- Blaine County, Idaho
- Power County, Idaho
- Bingham County, Idaho
- Bannock County, Idaho
- Bonneville County, Idaho
- Jefferson County, Idaho
- Lincoln County, Wyoming
- Teton County, Wyoming
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Synonyms: SnakeSynonyms: ophidian (n), serpent (n), snake in the grass (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur; snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick. |
Concealment | Latency; snake in the grass; secret; stowaway. |
Deceiver | Noun: deceiver; (deceive; ); dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler, stool pigeon. |
Evil doer | Snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda. |
Impotence | Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. |
Inexpedience | Evil doer; bane; plague spot; (insalubrity); evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid, thorn in the side. |
Insufficiency | Do insufficiently; adVerb: scotch the snake. |
Knave | Traitor, betrayer, archtraitor, conspirator, Judas, Catiline; reptile, serpent, snake in the grass, wolf in sheep's clothing, sneak, Jerry Sneak, squealer, tell-tale, mischief-maker; trimmer, fence-sitter, renegade; (tergiversation); truant, recreant; sycophant; (servility). |
Latency Implication | Snake in the grass; (pitfall); secret. |
Noncompletion | Fall short of; do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse. |
Pitfall | Sword of Damocles; wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the pot; latency. |
Preservation | Snake oil, spider webs, cure-all; laetrile; charm. |
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Screenplays | Yes, it comes naturally; his grandfather was a snake! (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) So just keep your snake in its cage for 72 hours (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) What we have here, my little yellow sister, is a prime example of Alabama black snake! (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick) Wanna drink snake blood (The Beach; writing credit: John Hodge) Jafar, you snake! (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) | |
Lyrics | The union of the snake is on the climb (Union of the Snake; performing artist: Duran Duran) Every poisonous snake in the land can be found here too, ya know (Ice Machine In The Desert; performing artist: Brave Combo) Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) Hides the face, lies the snake (BLACK HOLE SUN; performing artist: Soundgarden) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Snake Gully with Dad and Dave (1972) Isle of the Snake People (1968) Snake Woman (1961) How Na Zha Rescued His Mother from the Snake Mountain (1960) Snake River Desperados (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Ferry, Snake River" - White 3/4 ton truck Astro Party of C. V. Hodges. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A Northern Water Snake basking along the river bank in early fall. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A young Northern Water Snake. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. A brown water snake preparing to shed its skin. These reptiles are common throughout the area. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A coachwhip snake - Masticophis flagellum. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | This sea snake is actually a vertebrate and in the wrong place in collection. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Snake eel - a member of the Family Ophichthidae. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | 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 Snake River flows outside Jackson, Wyoming. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | In an ARS test plot at Utah State University, Utah State University research assistant Mayme Seng pollinates Snake River wheatgrass. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
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| "Dice - Snake Eyes" by Anders Skovgaard-Petersen Commentary: "A pair of red Sands Casino dice ." | "Corn Snake" by Kenn W. Kiser Commentary: "Corn snake cooling off in the water." |
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 | Cobra snake hissing. |
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Lord Byron | Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. |
Virgil | A snake lurks in the grass. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A snake wriggled across the warm highway |
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Health | Toxic causes, such as snake bites. (references) | |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever was first recognized in 1896 in the Snake River Valley of Idaho and was originally called "black measles" because of the characteristic rash. It was a dreaded and frequently fatal disease that affected hundreds of people in this area. By the early 1900s, the recognized geographic distribution of this disease grew to encompass parts of the United States as far north as Washington and Montana and as far south as California, Arizona, and New Mexico. (references) | ||
Business | Shoes produced of python, crocodile, lizard or snake leather (or imitation), as well those made in very loud and intense colors, are enjoying a great demand currently. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. |
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Jack Hanna | Well, some people do. And you always handle a snack with two hands so you don't break his back. Always remember that. If you have a pet snake, when you ever get one, just pick him up with two hands. |
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| "Snake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.56% of the time. "Snake" is used about 658 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) | 87.56% | 576 | 10,970 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.65% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.97% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.82% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 658 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "snake". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nahash | N/A | Biblical | Snake |
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Expressions using "snake": ad scotch the snake ♦ aesculapius' snake ♦ african coral snake ♦ asian coral snake ♦ australian coral snake ♦ banded sand snake ♦ banded water snake ♦ bite of a snake ♦ bite of snake ♦ black rat snake ♦ black snake ♦ Blind snake ♦ bull snake ♦ Carpet snake ♦ cherish a snake in one's bosom ♦ chicken snake ♦ Cleopatra's snake ♦ Coachwhip snake ♦ colubrid snake ♦ common garter snake ♦ common water snake ♦ Congo snake ♦ coral snake ♦ corn snake ♦ dart snake ♦ Diamond snake ♦ eastern coral snake ♦ eastern ground snake ♦ eastern indigo snake ♦ elapid snake ♦ emerald whip snake ♦ Fetich snake ♦ garter snake ♦ glass snake ♦ glossy snake ♦ gopher snake ♦ grass snake ♦ green snake ♦ ground snake ♦ hair snake ♦ Harlequin snake ♦ hognose snake ♦ hooded snake ♦ hoop snake ♦ Horned snake ♦ house snake ♦ indian rat snake ♦ indigo snake ♦ joint snake ♦ king snake ♦ Lance snake ♦ lined snake ♦ Lizard snake ♦ lyre snake ♦ milk snake ♦ mocassin snake ♦ moccasin snake ♦ mountain black snake ♦ new World coral snake ♦ night snake ♦ old World coral snake ♦ pilot snake ♦ pine snake ♦ plumber's snake ♦ poisonous snake ♦ polishing snake ♦ prairie snake ♦ rat snake ♦ rattle snake ♦ red rat snake ♦ ribbon snake ♦ ring snake ♦ ringed snake ♦ ringneck snake ♦ rock snake ♦ rough green snake ♦ sand snake ♦ scotch a snake ♦ scotch the snake not lull it ♦ sea snake ♦ smooth green snake ♦ smooth snake ♦ snake along ♦ snake bite ♦ Snake Bites ♦ snake charmer ♦ snake cucumber ♦ snake dance ♦ snake doctor ♦ snake eater ♦ snake eyes ♦ snake feeder ♦ snake fence ♦ snake fern ♦ snake fly ♦ snake god ♦ snake gourd ♦ snake in the grass ♦ snake killer ♦ snake lizards ♦ snake mackerel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "snake": snake-bark, snake-barks, snake-bite, snake-buckle, snake-charmers, snake-chasing, snake-clasped, snake-cup, snake-dance, snake-green, snake-haired, snake-handled, snake-headed, snake-heads, snake-hunters, snake-infested, snake-in-the-grass, snake-laced, snake-like, snake-mimicry, snake-pit, snake-preservation, snake-rail fence, snake-ridden, snake-root, snake-skin, snake-stone, snake-tongued, snake-tongues. | |
Ending with "snake": anti-snake, fake-snake, flutter-snake, Glass-snake, grass-snake, half-snake, harlequin-snake, house-snake, rattle-snake, ring-snake, rock-snake, sea-snake, water-snake. | |
Containing "snake": sea-snake-bear, seven-snake-necked. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
snake | 13,910 | garden snake | 314 |
snake river | 2,235 | milk snake | 301 |
rattle snake | 1,237 | gear metal snake solid twin | 299 |
snake picture | 1,131 | cobra snake | 292 |
copperhead snake | 1,083 | snake type | 284 |
garter snake | 736 | poisonous snake | 283 |
remix snake | 727 | kelly r snake | 280 |
corn snake | 682 | snake bite | 260 |
snake world | 657 | anaconda snake | 249 |
snake game | 633 | venomous snake | 234 |
king snake | 570 | snake tattoo | 228 |
florida snake | 552 | carolina north snake | 219 |
black snake | 520 | snake sex | 217 |
3 eater gear metal snake solid | 505 | snake toy | 215 |
snake of texas | 484 | georgia snake | 212 |
coral snake | 442 | kelly lyrics r snake | 205 |
identification snake | 343 | reptile snake | 205 |
rat snake | 343 | cottonmouth snake | 197 |
water snake | 334 | pennsylvania snake | 196 |
bull snake | 332 | ohio snake | 186 |
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| Language | Translations for "snake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | slang (serpent). (various references) | |
Albanian | gjarpër (asp, ophidian, serpent, viper). (various references) | |
Arabic | حية (serpent), تلوى كالأفعى, أفعى (adder, boa, serpent, worm), ثعبان, شخص غادر, شخص خائن. (various references) | |
Asturian | culiebra. (various references) | |
Aymara | asiru. (various references) | |
Basque | suge. (various references) | |
Bemba | insoka. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | piksííksiinaa. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | влача (drag, draggle, draw, haul, lug, tote, trail), вия се като змия, змия (adder, asp, ophidian, serpent, viper), пълзя като змия. (various references) | |
Cebuano | halas. (various references) | |
Chamorro | kolepbla. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蛇 (serpent). (various references) | |
Cornish | gorthfyl. (various references) | |
Czech | had (sand-viper, serpent). (various references) | |
Danish | slange (inner tube, serpent, tube). (various references) | |
Dutch | slang (serpent). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | machacui. (various references) | |
Esperanto | serpento (serpent). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ormur (grub, larva, serpent, worm). (various references) | |
Farsi | مارپیچی بودن , مارپیچ رفتن , دارای حرکت مارپیچی بودن . (various references) | |
Finnish | valuuttakäärmemekanismi (mechanism for managing currency fluctuations), valuuttakäärme (mechanism for managing currency fluctuations), pituussärö (snaking), pituusmurtuma (snaking), käärme (serpent). (various references) | |
French | serpent. (various references) | |
Frisian | slange. (various references) | |
German | Schlange (coil, jezebel, line, procession, queue, serpent, string, train, viper). (various references) | |
Greek | φίδι (serpent). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | gjarpër (serpent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להתפתל כנחש, נחש (serpent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kígyó (ophidian, serpent). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ormur (serpent). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ular (serpent). (various references) | |
Irish | nathair (serpent). (various references) | |
Italian | serpente (serpent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蛇 (serpent). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | スネーク , へび (serpent). (various references) | |
Kongo | nioka. (various references) | |
Korean | 뱀. (various references) | |
Lombard | serpent (serpent), bissa (serpent). (various references) | |
Macedonian | zmija. (various references) | |
Manx | ardnieu (serpent), aarnieu (adder, serpent, viper). (various references) | |
Maori | naakahi. (various references) | |
Mohawk | onyare. (various references) | |
Norwegian | orm (serpent). (various references) | |
Occitan | sèrp. (various references) | |
Papago | sho'owa (bull snake), wahhigam (water snake), jewekag (king snake), chuk wamad (black racer snake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akesnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | serpente (cockatrice, ophidian, serpent, viper), cobra (adder, expert, ophidian, serpent, viper). (various references) | |
Provencal | sèrp. (various references) | |
Romanian | viperã (adder, asp, aspic, serpent, viper), rãsuci (contort, convolve, curl, dislocate, entwist, revolve, roll, screw, set, spin, sprain, turn, twist, wield, wring), fura (abstract, crib, defalcate, embezzle, filch, hook, kidnap, knock off, lift, make away with, nibble, nim, pick pockets, pilfer, pill, pinch, plagiarize, poach, prig, purloin, Raven, reave, steal, thieve), şarpe (dragon, serpent). (various references) | |
Romany | sap. (various references) | |
Ruanda | inzoka. (various references) | |
Russian | змея змеиный, змея (asp, bom, boma, ophidian, serpent). (various references) | |
Samoan | gata. (various references) | |
Scottish | nathair (a serpent, adder, serpent). (various references) | |
Sepedi | noga. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sajla za čišćenje slivnika i cevi, zmija (ophidian, serpent), vijugati (curve, meander, twist, wind), kretati se kao zmija, guja (adder, ophidian, serpent, viper). (various references) | |
Shona | nyarufuro (water snake), maswerwe (sand snake). (various references) | |
Sicilian | serpenti. (various references) | |
Spanish | serpiente (serpent). (various references) | |
Sranan | sneki (serpent), langaman (serpent). (various references) | |
Swahili | nyoka (serpent). (various references) | |
Swazi | í-nyôka. (various references) | |
Swedish | snok (conk, grass snake, serpent, spy), orm (ophidian, serpent, sneak, viper). (various references) | |
Tagalog | áhas (serpent). (various references) | |
Thai | งู. (various references) | |
Turkish | yılan gibi gitmek, yılan (ophido-, serpent, viper), kıvrıla kıvrıla gitmek (wander, wind, wriggle along), avrupa para birimleri arasındaki dalgalanma. (various references) | |
Turkmen | яylan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тварюка (yahoo), витягувати (abstract, crane, draw out, extract, outstretch, pull, put out), витися (clamber, climb, creep, curl, frizzle, wave, wind, wreathe), нікчема (blighter, bum, cipher, duffer, ne'er do well, nihil, nit, nobody, nonentity, nought, nullity, pygmy, snipe, snipper-snapper, wastrel, wet, whipper-snapper, whipster, zero), змія (asp, aspic, ophidian, serpent), повзти (creep, ramp, warp, worm). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ thù bí mật làm náo động, gây chuyện đánh nhau nuôi ong tay áo, cáu quá! sự nguy hiểm ngầm. (various references) | |
Welsh | neidr (adder, serpent). (various references) | |
Yucatec | kan (serpent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | mu. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | ekhidna. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | anguis, coluber, colubrarum, colubri, dipsas, draco, dracone, draconem, dracones, draconi, draconibus, draconis, draconum, serpens, serpente, serpentem, serpentes, serpenti, serpentibus, serpentis, serpentium, stelio, stilio, vipera, viperarum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | mairya. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | SustreyantoV de tou paulou fruganwn plhqoV kai epiqentoV epi thn puran ecidna ek thV qermhV exelqousa kaqhyen thV ceiroV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum congregasset autem Paulus sarmentorum aliquantam multitudinem et inposuisset super ignem vipera a calore cum processisset invasit manum eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But whanne Poul hadde gederid `a quantite of kittingis of vines, and leide on the fier, an edder sche cam forth fro the heete, and took hym bi the hoond. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And when Paul had gaddered a boundle of stickes and put them into the fyre ther came a viper out of the heet and lept on his honde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 3 |
| Albanian | Dhe, ndërsa Pali mblidhte ca shkarpa dhe i vinte mbi zjarr, nga të nxehtit doli një nepërkë dhe iu ngjit te dora. |
| Cebuano | Ug si Pablo namunit ug usa ka bangan nga mga igsosugnod, ug sa iya na kining gikatam-ok sa daub, usa ka bitin nga malala miwayway tungod sa kainit ug miukob sa iyang kamot. |
| Chinese | 那 時 、 保 羅 拾 起 一 捆 柴 、 放 在 火 上 、 有 一 條 毒 蛇 、 因 為 熱 了 出 來 、 咬 住 他 的 手 。 |
| Croatian | Pavao nakupi naramak granja i baci na krijes kadli zbog vruæine izaðe zmija i pripije mu se za ruku. |
| Danish | Men da Paulus samlede en Bunke Ris og lagde på Bålet, krøb der en Øgle ud på Grund af Varmen og hængte sig fast ved hans Hånd. |
| Dutch | En als Paulus een hoop rijzen bijeengeraapt en op het vuur gelegd had, kwam er een adder uit door de hitte, en vatte zijn hand. |
| Finnish | Mutta Paavali kokosi kasan risuja, ja kun hän pani ne nuotioon, tuli kyykäärme kuumuuden tähden esiin ja kävi kiinni hänen käteensä. |
| French | Paul ayant ramassé un tas de broussailles et l`ayant mis au feu, une vipère en sortit par l`effet de la chaleur et s`attacha à sa main. |
| German | Da aber Paulus einen Haufen Reiser zusammenraffte, und legte sie aufs Feuer, kam eine Otter von der Hitze hervor und fuhr Paulus an seine Hand. |
| Hungarian | Mikor pedig Pál nagy sok venyigét szedett és a tûzre tette, egy vipera a melegbõl kimászva, az õ kezére ragada. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Paulus mengumpulkan kayu, dan menaruh kayu-kayu itu di atas api. Sementara ia melakukan itu, seekor ular keluar, karena panasnya api itu, lalu memagut tangannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi apabila Paulus sudah memungut seberkas ranting-ranting dan meletakkan ke atas api itu, maka keluarlah seekor ular, sebab hangat itu, memagut tangannya. |
| Italian | Mentre Paolo raccoglieva un fascio di sarmenti e lo gettava sul fuoco, una vipera, risvegliata dal calore, lo morse a una mano. |
| Maori | Na ka kohikohia e Paora he pupu wahie, a maka ana e ia ki te kapura: heoi puta mai ana he neke i te wera, ka mau ki tona ringa. |
| Norwegian | Men da Paulus sanket sammen en hop tørre kvister og kastet dem på ilden, krøp en orm ut på grunn av heten og bet sig fast i hans hånd. |
| Portuguese | Ora havendo Paulo ajuntado e posto sobre o fogo um feixe de gravetos, uma víbora, fugindo do calor, apegou-se-lhe à mão. |
| Rumanian | Pavel strknsese o grqmadq de mqrqcini, wi -i pusese pe foc; o nqpkrcq a iewit afarq din pricina cqldurii, wi s`a lipit de mkna lui. |
| Russian | лПЗДБ ЦЕ рБЧЕМ ОБВТБМ НОПЦЕУФЧП ИЧПТПУФБ Й ЛМБМ ОБ ПЗПОШ, ФПЗДБ ЕИЙДОБ, ЧЩКДС ПФ ЦБТБ, РПЧЙУМБ ОБ ТХЛЕ ЕЗП. |
| Shuar | Pápruka jinia kukarun ikiaanak jinium pataamiayi. Túmawai napi tsuéran ashamak jiinki, Papru uwején nemaramiayi. |
| Swahili | Paulo aliokota mzigo mdogo wa kuni akawa anazitia motoni. Hapo, kwa sababu ya lile joto la moto, nyoka akatoka katika kuni akamnasa Paulo mkononi na kujishikilia hapo. |
| Swedish | När Paulus då tog upp ett fång torra kvistar som han lade på elden, kom, i följd av hettan, en huggorm fram därur och högg sig fast vid hans hand. |
| Uma | Paulus mporumpu kaju pai' nalobu. Bula-na mpodampa kaju hi lolo apu, hangaa mehupa' hama'a ule ngkai rala kaju, apa' morani' -hawo nanene apu. Ule toe mpotilo' pale-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snake": snakebird, snakebirds, snakebit, snakebite, snakebites, snakebitten, snaked, snakelike, snakeroot, snakeroots, snakes, snakeskin, snakeskins, snakeweed, snakeweeds, snakey. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "snake": blacksnake, rattlesnake. (additional references) | |
Words containing "snake": blacksnakes, rattlesnakes. (additional references) | |
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"Snake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gnako, Nahke, naka, sakee, sakei, sance, sanjak, Sanka, Sanke, Sankeiv, sanko, Sankoh, Sanouko, Sanski, scake, Senaki, Senkaki, senkaku, Siaka, Sinaiko, Sjak, skane, smace, smake, smakke, snaac, snaca, snae, snak, snakke, snaks, snale, snaok, snaue, snaze, sneake, sneek, snek, snoek, snok, snuke, Srnecek, zanaki. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kanes, skean, sneak. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-s" | |
-1 letter: anes, kaes, kane, keas, kens, sake, sane, sank. | |
-2 letters: ane, ask, ens, kae, kas, kea, ken, nae, sae, sea, sen, ska. | |
-3 letters: ae, an, as, en, es, ka, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-n-s" | |
+1 letter: akenes, ankles, kenafs, kinase, knaves, kneads, pekans, shaken, skeane, skeans, snaked, snakes, snakey, sneaks, sneaky, wakens. | |
+2 letters: alkanes, alkenes, alkines, alkynes, anankes, anklets, ankuses, askance, awakens, bankers, cankers, dankest, darkens, deskman, embanks, hankers, hankies, harkens, intakes, kalends, kamseen, khazens, kinases, kinemas, knawels, krakens, kyanise, lankest, rankers, rankest, rankles, shanked, sinkage, skeanes, slacken, snacked, snakier, sneaked, sneaker, sokeman, spanked, spanker, swanked, swanker, tankers, unasked, uncakes, unmakes, unspeak, weakens. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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