The difference between Plumber's snake and Snake
When used as nouns, plumber's snake means a long, flexible tool, often with rotating blades at its forward end, which is inserted into a plumbing pipe system and used to remove clogs or other obstructions, whereas snake means a legless reptile of the sub-order serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
Snake is also verb with the meaning: to follow or move in a winding route.
check bellow for the other definitions of Plumber's snake and Snake
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Plumber's snake as a noun:
A long, flexible tool, often with rotating blades at its forward end, which is inserted into a plumbing pipe system and used to remove clogs or other obstructions.
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Snake as a noun:
A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
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Snake as a noun:
A treacherous person.
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Snake as a noun:
A tool for unclogging plumbing.
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Snake as a noun:
A tool to aid cable pulling.
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Snake as a noun (slang):
trouser snake; the penis
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Snake as a noun (maths):
A series of Bézier curves
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Snake as a noun (cartomancy):
The seventh Lenormand card.
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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."
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Snake as a verb (transitive, Australia, slang):
To steal slyly.
Examples:
"He snaked my DVD!"
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Snake as a verb (transitive):
To clean using a plumbing snake.
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Snake as a verb (US, informal):
To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
Examples:
"rfquotek Bartlett"
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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.