Snake vs Python - What's the difference?
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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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(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
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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 .
(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.
(Greek mythology) The earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.
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A programming language invented by Guido van Rossum, named after Monty Python .
(informal) The British comedy troupe .
A member of Monty Python': Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones or Michael Palin; referred to collectively as ''The '''Pythons .
As nouns the difference between snake and python
is that snake is a legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue while python is a type of large constricting snake.As proper nouns the difference between snake and python
is that 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 while Python is the earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.As a verb snake
is to follow or move in a winding route.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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Synonyms
* (move in a winding path) slither, windSee also
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* *python
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Proper noun
(wikipedia Python) (en proper noun)page 11,
- Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python', and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the ' Python , suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.
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- It would seem, therefore, that what we have on the Phasian phiale is the Python' coiled round the omphalos.Paintings on Greek pottery and coins have preserved many an example of gods seated on an omphalos, including those of Apollo, Nike, Asclepius and others.413 ' Python on the omphalos must have carried some symbolic meaning.
page 183,
- Python', says Bailey, is derived from Putho to putrify, and the serpent '''Python''' being slain by Apollo, is thus interpreted: by ' Python is understood the ruin of the waters ; Apollo slew this serpent with his arrows ; that is, the beams of the sun dispersed the noxious vapours, which destroyed man like a devouring serpent.
- John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons .
