Meal vs Snake - What's the difference?
meal | snake |
(senseid)Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).
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, title= Food served or eaten as a repast.
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, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour.
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, title= To defile or taint.
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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, group=aus.cars
, 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.
In transitive terms the difference between meal and snake
is that meal is to defile or taint while snake is to clean using a plumbing snake.As a proper noun Snake is
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.meal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Sneaky Silk Moths, passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* make a meal of * meal mob * meal station * meal ticketEtymology 2
From (etyl) mele, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(-)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal .}}
Derived terms
* mealy * cornmeal * oatmealEtymology 3
Variation of mole (compare (etyl) mail), from (etyl) mole, mool, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous. ? Shakespeare.
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----snake
English
(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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