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| snail | |
| 1. Substantiv: | |
| 2. [1] Zoologie: die Gehäuseschnecke | |
| 3. [2] übertragen sehr langsame Person | |
| [1] The garden plants were eaten by snails. | |
| [2] The old woman crossed the road at a snail's pace. | |
| Die alte Frau überquerte die Strasse im Schneckentempo. | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
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| snail | |
| 1. subst. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. |  |
| 2. subst. (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard. | |
| 3. subst. (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. | |
| 4. subst. (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers. | |
| 5. subst. The pod of the snail clover. | |
| 6. v. To move or travel very slowly | |
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| Schnecke | |
| 1. n-f. snail, slug | |
| 2. n-f. (slang) an attractive woman; chick | |
| 3. n-f. the cochlea in the inner ear | |
| 4. n-f. a screw or worm thread | |
| 5. n-f. (lutherie) scroll (the carved wooden spiral at the end of a stringed instrument's fingerboard) | |
| 6. n-f. pastry in the form of a snail | |
| 7. n-f. (watches) fusee | |
| 8. n-f. (heraldry, rare) a stylized charge consisting of a tapering spiral inward from the edge to the centre of the shield, somewhat resembling the spiral on a snail's shell or a gurges | |
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