snail

«snail» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a small, slow animal with a soft, slimy body and a spiral… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a snail, snails)

meaning for a pupil

1) A snail is a small, slow animal with a soft, slimy body and a spiral shell on its back that lives on land or in water. tree →

2) Snail can describe something very slow («at a snail's pace»). tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Psalm it is a creature that seems to melt away as it moves, a picture of how the wicked will vanish. Interpretation: Commentators take it as a picture of the wicked wasting away and leaving nothing behind. In the primary lessons: In science snails are molluscs: they have one muscular foot, leave a trail of slime, have tentacles with eyes, and eat plants, so gardeners see them as pests. They hide in their shells when it is dry or dangerous. In maths puzzles a snail climbing a wall is a classic problem. Phrases: «at a snail's pace», «snail mail» (letters sent by post), «snail shell».

examples

• Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun. (Writings PSA.58.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• A snail left a silvery trail across the path. tree →
• The snail pulled its head into its shell. tree →
• Snails ate all our lettuce. tree →
• The traffic moved at a snail's pace. tree →
• Snails come out after rain. tree →
• A snail has its eyes on the tips of its tentacles. tree →
• Grandma still sends birthday cards by snail mail. tree →
• A snail climbs 3 metres a day and slips back 2 at night, so it gains 1 metre each full day. tree →
• "I take my time," said the snail. tree →

note

Countable: «a snail». A snail without a shell is a «slug». Wash your hands after touching snails. In the classic puzzle, the snail escapes on the last day before slipping back, so count carefully.

In the corpora

• A snail eats with a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny teeth that scrapes food like a file.
• A worm has no legs, and a snail or slug has one wide muscly foot instead of legs.
• An octopus is a soft relative of snails and clams, yet it is one of the cleverest animals in the sea.
• Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and pain medicines have been made from cone snail venom.
• A giant snail rasps through cucumber with a tongue of thousands of tiny teeth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «snail» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.