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Conch vs Snail - What's the difference?

conch | snail |

As nouns the difference between conch and snail

is that conch is a marine gastropod of the family family: Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell while snail is any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

As verbs the difference between conch and snail

is that conch is to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers while snail is to move or travel very slowly.

conch

English

Alternative forms

* conk

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A marine gastropod of the family which lives in its own spiral shell.
  • The shell of this sea animal.
  • A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell.
  • A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to develop the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding; a concher or concher machine.

    • Verb

  • To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
  • To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.

    • snail

    English

    (wikipedia snail) (Helicidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda , having a coiled shell.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
  • (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
  • (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
  • * Vegetius (in translation)
    • They had also all manner of gynes [engines]
  • The pod of the snail clover.

    • Derived terms

    * snail mail * snail's pace

    See also

    * heliciculture * slug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move or travel very slowly

    • Anagrams

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