The difference between Auger and Snake

When used as nouns, auger means a carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet, whereas snake means a legless reptile of the sub-order serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

When used as verbs, auger means to use an auger, whereas snake means to follow or move in a winding route.


check bellow for the other definitions of Auger and Snake

  1. Auger as a noun:

    A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.

  2. Auger as a noun:

    A snake or plumber's snake .

  3. Auger as a noun:

    A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts

  4. Auger as a noun:

    A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.

  1. Auger as a verb:

    To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.

  2. Auger as a verb:

    To proceed in the manner of an auger.

  1. Snake as a noun:

    A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

  2. Snake as a noun:

    A treacherous person.

  3. Snake as a noun:

    A tool for unclogging plumbing.

  4. Snake as a noun:

    A tool to aid cable pulling.

  5. Snake as a noun (slang):

    trouser snake; the penis

  6. Snake as a noun (maths):

    A series of Bézier curves

  7. Snake as a noun (cartomancy):

    The seventh Lenormand card.

  1. Snake as a verb (intransitive):

    To follow or move in a winding route.

    Examples:

    "The path snaked through the forest."

    "The river snakes through the valley."

  2. Snake as a verb (transitive, Australia, slang):

    To steal slyly.

    Examples:

    "He snaked my DVD!"

  3. Snake as a verb (transitive):

    To clean using a plumbing snake.

  4. Snake as a verb (US, informal):

    To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Bartlett"

  5. Snake as a verb (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.

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