šnek — meaning in English

English meaning

• snail noun A small, slow-moving mollusc with a spiral shell that it carries on its back.
• volute noun The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.

Senses

šnek is used for these senses in English:

• snail Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
• snail (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
• volute (music) A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural volutes.

snail — full definition

1. noun A small, slow-moving mollusc with a spiral shell that it carries on its back.
2. noun Informally, a very slow-moving person.
3. verb To move at a very slow pace.

volute — full definition

1. noun The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
2. noun The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
3. noun Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
4. noun The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.

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