Worm vs. Snake: Know the Difference

Any of various invertebrates, especially an annelid, flatworm, nematode, or nemertean, having a long, flexible, rounded or flattened body, often without obvious appendages.

See Shoshone.

Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft elongated body.

See Hydra.

Any of various other animals, such as a shipworm or a slowworm, having a long slender limbless body.

Any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous squamate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia), having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and flexible jaws.

Something, such as the thread of a screw or the spiral condenser in a still, that resembles a worm in form or appearance.

A treacherous person. Also called snake in the grass.

The spirally threaded shaft of a worm gear.

A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains. Also called plumber's snake.

An insidiously tormenting or devouring force

To drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain.

A person regarded as pitiable or contemptible.

To pull with quick jerks.

Worms Medicine Infestation of the intestines or other parts of the body with parasitic worms; helminthiasis.

To move in a sinuous or gliding manner

(Computers) A malicious program that replicates itself until it fills all of the storage space on a drive or network.

To move with a sinuous motion

To make (one's way) with the sinuous crawling motion of a worm.

A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

To work (one's way or oneself) subtly or gradually; insinuate

A treacherous person; a rat.

To elicit by artful or devious means. Usually used with out of

Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.

To treat for intestinal worms

A tool for unclogging plumbing.

(Nautical) To wrap yarn or twine spirally around (rope).

A tool to aid cable pulling.

To move in a manner suggestive of a worm.

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

To make one's way by artful or devious means

(slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.

(maths) A series of Bézier curves.

More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.

(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

(archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.

An informer; a rat.

Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.

(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

A contemptible or devious being.

To steal slyly.

(computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.

(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.

(cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.

To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

(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.

A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

(MLE) To inform; to rat.

The spiral wire of a corkscrew.

Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

(anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.

To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; - often with out.

The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.

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.

A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.

To crawl like a snake.

(obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.

Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

(figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.

A deceitful or treacherous person

(math) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.

A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

(anatomy) The lytta.

A long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

(preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.

Something resembling a snake

(transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

Move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

(intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.

Form a snake-like pattern;

To work one's way by artful or devious means.

Move along a winding path;

To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.

To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).

To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.

(transitive) To deworm (an animal).

(transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.

(transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.

Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.

An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.

A being debased and despised.

Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm

A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.

To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; - often followed by out.

To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.

To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.

Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

A software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network;

Screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);