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(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
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A human being, whether man, woman or child.
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, title= (lb) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
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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.
To follow or move in a winding route.
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, title=Football fever...
, group=aus.personals
, author=Mark Addinall
, date=September 24
, year=1996
, passage=Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?
(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
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, author=Hyena
, date=April 5
, year=2001
, passage=Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier.F*CK ME !! Snaked again !
To clean using a plumbing snake.
(US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out .
(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.
As an adjective human
is (label) classical (of or pertaining to the classical - latin, greek - languages, literature, history and philosophy).As a proper noun snake is
(video games) an early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.human
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Adjective
(en adjective)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
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citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
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- Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.
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* human behaviour * human being * human botfly * human capital * human chattel * human chorionic gonadotropin * human-computer interaction * human condition * human death * human development * Human Genome Project * human immunodeficiency virus * human insulin * human interest * humanism * humanist * humanization * humanize * humanizer * human knot * human kind, humankind * humanly * human movement * human nature * humanoid * human papillomavirus * human pyramid * human race * human relations * human resources (HR) * human rights * human trafficking * inhuman * inhumane * nonhuman, non-human * to err is human (human)Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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Verb
(en verb)- There are, then, many ways of humaning : these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.
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snake
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(wikipedia snake)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (reptile) joe blake, serpent * (plumbing tool) auger, plumber's snake * (tool for cable pulling) wirepullerDerived terms
* snakebite * snake in the grass * snake oilVerb
(snak)- The path snaked through the forest.
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- The river snakes through the valley.
- He snaked my DVD!
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