Fight vs Snaked - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between fight and snaked

is that fight is (label) to contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc while snaked is (snake).

As a noun fight

is an occasion of fighting.

fight

English

Verb

(label) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

(label) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-07-05, volume=412, issue=8894, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Freedom fighter , passage=[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.}}

(label) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).

* (1800-1859)

He had to fight his way through the world.

* Bible, iv. 7

I have fought a good fight.

(label) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

(label) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.

To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* fight a losing battle * fight back * fight fire with fire * fightest * fight shy of * fight the good fight * fight tooth and nail

Noun

(en noun)

An occasion of fighting.

(archaic) A battle between opposing armies.

A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.

(sports) A boxing or martial arts match.

A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.}}

The will or ability to fight.

(obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

* Dryden

Up with your fights , and your nettings prepare.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* bullfight * bun fight * cockfight * dogfight * fight or flight * fighter * fighting * fight scene * fight the good fight * fist fight * food fight * footfight * gunfight * pillow fight * prize fight * straight fight * sword fight * thumb fight

Statistics

* English irregular verbs English reciprocal verbs 1000 English basic words

snaked

English

Verb

(head)

(snake)

Anagrams

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snake

English

(wikipedia snake)

Noun

(en noun)

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

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A treacherous person.

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A tool for unclogging plumbing.

A tool to aid cable pulling.

(slang) A trouser snake; the penis.

Synonyms

* (reptile) joe blake, serpent * (plumbing tool) auger, plumber's snake * (tool for cable pulling) wirepuller

Derived terms

* snakebite * snake in the grass * snake oil

Verb

(snak)

To follow or move in a winding route.

The path snaked through the forest.

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The river snakes through the valley.

(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.

He snaked my DVD!

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To clean using a plumbing snake.

(US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out .

(Bartlett)

(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.

Synonyms

* (move in a winding path) slither, wind

Anagrams

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