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Hedgehog vs Snake - What's the difference?

hedgehog | snake |

As a noun hedgehog

is a small mammal, of the subfamily erinaceinae, characterized by its spiny back and by its habit of rolling itself into a ball when attacked.

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.

hedgehog

English

(wikipedia hedgehog)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small mammal, of the subfamily Erinaceinae, characterized by its spiny back and by its habit of rolling itself into a ball when attacked.
  • A type of moveable military barricade made from crossed logs or steel bars, laced with barbed wire, used to damage or impede tanks and vehicles; Czech hedgehog.
  • The nickname for a spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.
  • (Australia) A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.
  • * 2005 , Paul Mitchell, The Favourite'', Frank Moorhouse, ''The Best Australian Stories 2005 , page 145,
    • There are hedgehogs with sultanas as well as breadcrumbs, carrot cakes and fruitcakes and banana walnut loaves.
  • * 2008 , Lili Wilkinson, The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend , unnumbered page,
    • I am so flustered that I order a vanilla slice instead of hedgehog .
  • * 2009 , , The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop , page 199,
    • His wife had made a hedgehog cake and he offered some but Murphy refused – his mouth was so dry with terror he couldn?t swallow.
  • A form of dredging machine.
    • (Knight)
  • * 1868 , "Dredging," article in Charles Tomlinson (editor), Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering , Volume 1, page 520,
    • The first machines merely loosened, but did not raise the stuff, a scouring being afterwards effected by means of sluices. These machines consisted of large bars or prongs placed vertically in a frame, and being fastened to a barge placed in the line of the sluices, the whole was inpelled forward by the current, thereby scouring the bed. Such a machine, called a hedgehog , is still used in Lincolnshire.
  • The flowering plant , the pods of which are armed with short spines.
    • (Loudon)

    Synonyms

    * (mammal with spines) urchin (archaic), furze-pig (West Country), hedgepig (UK), Erinaceus europaeus * (Medicago intertexta)

    Coordinate terms

    * (mammal with spines) gymnure

    Derived terms

    * Czech hedgehog * hedgehog signalling pathway * sonic hedgehog

    See also

    * echidna * porcupine * erinaceous

    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.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , 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? citation
    The river snakes through the valley.
  • (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
    • He snaked my DVD!
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    • , title=Home made supercharger ? , 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 ! citation
  • 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

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