Snake vs Writhe - 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.
To twist, to wring (something).
To contort (a part of the body).
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To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.
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, title= (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
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.As a verb writhe is
to twist, to wring (something).As a noun writhe is
(knot theory) the number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot.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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Synonyms
* (move in a winding path) slither, windSee also
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* *writhe
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Verb
Everton 0-2 Liverpool, passage=The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.}} (Webster 1913)