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1 snail
[sneil](a kind of soft-bodied small crawling animal with a coiled shell: Snails leave a silvery trail as they move along.) melc -
2 snail
(mas, met, orlg) melc spirală -
3 snail countersink
(mas-un) teşitor spiral / elicoidal -
4 at a snail's pace
(very slowly: The old man walked along at a snail's pace.) ca melcul -
5 horn
[ho:n]1) (a hard object which grows (usually in pairs) on the head of a cow, sheep etc: A ram has horns.) corn2) (the material of which this is made: spoons made of horn; ( also adjective) horn spoons.)3) (something which is made of horn: a shoehorn.) corn4) (something which looks like a horn in shape: a snail's horns.) corn5) (the apparatus in a car etc which gives a warning sound: The driver blew his horn.) claxon6) (an instrument, formerly an animal's horn but now made of brass, that is blown to produce a musical sound: a hunting-horn.) corn (de vânătoare)7) ((also French horn) the type of coiled brass horn that is played in orchestras etc.) corn•- horned- - horned
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6 life-cycle
noun (the various stages through which a living thing passes: the life-cycle of the snail.) -
7 slug
I noun(a kind of animal like a snail.) limax, melc- sluggish- sluggishly
- sluggishness II 1. noun(a piece of metal, especially an irregularly shaped lump used as a bullet.) glonţ2. verb(to strike (a person) heavily usually causing unconsciousness: The man had been slugged on the back of the neck with a heavy object.) a omorî, a ucide (cu o lovitură violentă) -
8 winkle
I ['wiŋkl] verb(to force (something out of something) gradually and with difficulty: He winkled the shell out from the rock; He tried to winkle some information out of her.) a extrageII ['wiŋkl] noun((also periwinkle ['peri-]) a type of small shellfish, shaped like a small snail, eaten as food.) scoică
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Snail — (sn[=a]l), n. [OE. snaile, AS. sn[ae]gel, snegel, sn[ae]gl; akin to G. schnecke, OHG. snecko, Dan. snegl, Icel. snigill.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
snail — snail; snail·er; snail·ery; snail·ish; snail·ish·ly; … English syllables
snail — [sneıl] n [: Old English; Origin: snAgl] 1.) a small soft creature that moves very slowly and has a hard shell on its back 2.) at a snail s pace extremely slowly ▪ Traffic was moving at a snail s pace … Dictionary of contemporary English
snail — (n.) O.E. snægl, from P.Gmc. *snagilas (Cf. O.S. snegil, O.N. snigill, M.H.G. snegel, dialectal Ger. Schnegel, O.H.G. snecko, Ger. Schnecke snail ), from root *snag , *sneg to crawl (see SNAKE (Cf. snake) (n.)) … Etymology dictionary
snail — [ sneıl ] noun count a small animal that has a soft body, no legs, and a hard shell on its back. Snails move very slowly. at a snail s pace very slowly … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
snail — ► NOUN ▪ a slow moving mollusc with a spiral shell into which the whole body can be withdrawn. ORIGIN Old English … English terms dictionary
snail — [snāl] n. [ME snaile < OE snægl, akin to Ger dial. schnägel, ON snigill < IE base * sneg , to creep > SNAKE, SNEAK] 1. any of a large number of slow moving gastropods living on land or in water and having a spiral protective shell: some… … English World dictionary
Snail — For other uses, see Snail (disambiguation). For sea snails, see Sea snail. For slugs, see Slug. Helix pomatia, a species of land snail … Wikipedia
snail — [[t]sne͟ɪl[/t]] snails 1) N COUNT A snail is a small animal with a long, soft body, no legs, and a spiral shaped shell. Snails move very slowly. 2) PHRASE: PHR after v (emphasis) If you say that someone does something at a snail s pace, you are… … English dictionary
Snail — 1) Heb. homit, among the unclean creeping things (Lev. 11:30). This was probably the sand lizard, of which there are many species in the wilderness of Judea and the Sinai peninsula. 2) Heb. shablul (Ps. 58:8), the snail or slug proper.… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
snail — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ edible ▪ aquatic, land, marine, pond, sea, water SNAIL + NOUN ▪ she … Collocations dictionary