Definizione monolingua

snake

snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)

1. (intransitive): To move in a winding path.

   The river snakes through the valley.

2. (transitive, Australian, slang) To steal slyly.

   He snaked my DVD!

3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.

snake (plural snakes)

1. A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
   • 1892, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates^[1]:

     The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.

2. A treacherous person.
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby^[2]:

     Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.

3. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
4. A tool to aid cable pulling.
5. (slang) A trouser snake; the penis.

Definizione dizionario snake

	serpente
	legless reptile
	Any reptile of the suborder Ophidia, typically having a scaly cylindrical limbless body, fused eyelids, and a jaw modified for swallowing large prey: includes venomous forms such as cobras and rattlesnakes, large nonvenomous constrictors, and small harmless types such as the grass snake.

	biscia
	legless reptile

	serpe
	legless reptile

	serpeggiare
	to move in a winding path

serpentes

sèrpa

sèrpu

vipera

Altri significati:

(intransitive): To move in a winding path.

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

A treacherous person.

treacherous person

A tool for unclogging plumbing.

(slang) A trouser snake; the penis.

(transitive, Australian, slang) To steal slyly.

A tool to aid cable pulling.

plumbing tool

(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.