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Snake vs Krait - What's the difference?

snake | krait |

As nouns the difference between snake and krait

is that snake is a legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue while krait is any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.

As a verb snake

is to follow or move in a winding route.

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.

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 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

    See also

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    Anagrams

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    krait

    English

    Alternative forms

    * karait

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus , of southeast Asia.
  • * 2007 , A. Philip Parham, Feeling Free , page 190,
    • "Now, if you run into one of these kraits , you better NOT run away else you're a goner. It'll catch you for sure and you will die in your tracks."
  • * 2009 , Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo , page 295,
    • Very much in my thoughts is Joe Slowinski, a herpetologist killed a few years earlier by a misidentified juvenile krait , a snake so small that he couldn't tell if the fang had punctured the skin.
  • * 2011 , Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions , page 71,
    • India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits , cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.

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