The difference between Serpent and Snake
When used as nouns, serpent means a snake, 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, serpent means to wind or meander, whereas snake means to follow or move in a winding route.
check bellow for the other definitions of Serpent and Snake
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Serpent as a noun:
A snake.
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Serpent as a noun (musical instruments):
An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
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Serpent as a noun (figurative):
A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
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Serpent as a noun:
A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.
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Serpent as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To wind or meander
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Serpent as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To encircle.
Examples:
"rfquotek Evelyn"
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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.