snake vs spiral

snake

verb
  • To follow or move in a winding route. 

  • 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. 

  • To inform; to rat. 

  • To clean using a plumbing snake. 

  • To steal slyly. 

  • To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out. 

noun
  • A series of Bézier curves. 

  • The seventh Lenormand card. 

  • A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake. 

  • A tool to aid cable pulling. 

  • A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue. 

  • A treacherous person; a rat. 

  • Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain. 

  • Trouser snake; the penis. 

  • An informer; a rat. 

  • A tool for unclogging plumbing. 

spiral

verb
  • To move along the path of a spiral or helix. 

  • To increase continually. 

  • To cause something to spiral. 

noun
  • A helix. 

  • A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory. 

  • A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once. 

  • A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point. 

adj
  • Helical, like a spiral. 

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