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

  1. Serpent as a noun:

    A snake.

  2. Serpent as a noun (musical instruments):

    An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).

  3. Serpent as a noun (figurative):

    A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.

  4. Serpent as a noun:

    A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.

  1. Serpent as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To wind or meander

  2. Serpent as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To encircle.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Evelyn"

  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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