Schlange — meaning in English
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English meaning
- line noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
- queue noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
- serpent noun A snake, especially a large or dangerous one, or a snake-like mythical creature.
- serpentine adj Winding and twisting like a snake.
- snake noun A long, legless reptile that moves by slithering, some species of which are venomous.
Senses
Schlange is used for these senses in English:
- Serpens (constellation) A large summer constellation of the northern sky said to resemble a snake. It is the only constellation consisting of two parts (Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda) separated by the constellation Ophiuchus, representing the snake handler Asclepius.
- line A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16th c.]
- queue A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
- serpent (now, literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
- serpentine Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
- snake Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
line — full definition
- noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
- noun A row or sequence of people, things, or words, one after another.
- verb To arrange people or things in a row, or to form such a row.
- verb To cover the inside surface of something with a layer of material.
- noun A telephone or other communication connection.
queue — full definition
- noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
- noun In computing, a data structure that holds items to be processed in order, usually first-in-first-out.
- verb To line up and wait for a turn.
- verb To add an item to a waiting list or processing order.