flagship vs snout

flagship

noun
  • The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag. 

  • The most important one out of a related group. 

  • The ship regarded as most important out of a group, e.g. a nation's navy or company's fleet. 

verb
  • To act as a flagship for. 

snout

noun
  • The front of the prow of a ship or boat. 

  • The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum. 

  • The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc. 

  • The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. 

  • Tobacco; cigarettes. 

  • The terminus of a glacier. 

  • A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A person's nose. 

  • A police informer. 

  • The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum. 

verb
  • To furnish with a nozzle or point. 

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