Serpent vs. Snake
Difference Between Serpent and Snake
Serpentnoun
(Zoology) A snake.
Snakenoun
See Shoshone.
Serpentnoun
often Serpent In the Bible, the creature that tempted Eve, identified in Christian tradition with Satan.
Snakenoun
See Hydra.
Serpentnoun
A subtle, sly, or treacherous person.
Snakenoun
Any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous squamate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia), having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and flexible jaws.
Serpentnoun
A firework that writhes while burning.
Snakenoun
A treacherous person. Also called snake in the grass.
Serpentnoun
(Music) A deep-voiced wind instrument of serpentine shape, used principally from the 1600s to the 1800s, about 2.5 meters (8 feet) in length and made of brass or wood.
Snakenoun
A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains. Also called plumber's snake.
Serpentnoun
Serpent Serpens.
Snakeverb
To drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain.
Serpentnoun
A snake.
Snakeverb
To pull with quick jerks.
Serpentnoun
(musical instruments) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
Snakeverb
To move in a sinuous or gliding manner
tried to snake the rope along the ledge.Serpentnoun
(figurative) A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
Snakeverb
To move with a sinuous motion
The river snakes through the valley.Serpentnoun
A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.
Snakenoun
A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
Serpentverb
To wind or meander
Snakenoun
A treacherous person.
Serpentverb
To encircle.
Snakenoun
A tool for unclogging plumbing.
Serpentnoun
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
Snakenoun
A tool to aid cable pulling.
Serpentnoun
a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited
Snakenoun
(slang) trouser snake; the penis
Serpentnoun
an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
Snakenoun
(maths) A series of Bézier curves
Snakenoun
(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
Snakeverb
(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
The path snaked through the forest.The river snakes through the valley.Snakeverb
To steal slyly.
He snaked my DVD!Snakeverb
(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
Snakeverb
To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
Snakeverb
(nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
Snakenoun
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
Snakenoun
a deceitful or treacherous person
Snakenoun
a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Snakenoun
a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
Snakenoun
something resembling a snake
Snakeverb
move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
Snakeverb
form a snake-like pattern;
The river snakes through the valleySnakeverb
move along a winding path;
The army snaked through the jungle
