Shark vs. Snake — What's the Difference?

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the rays.

Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.

Any of numerous cartilaginous fishes of the subclass Elasmobranchii that are chiefly carnivorous and marine. Sharks have a streamlined torpedolike body, five to seven gill openings on each side of the head, a large oil-filled liver, and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales.

See Shoshone.

(Informal)A person, such as a loan shark, who takes advantage of the misfortune of others for personal gain.

See Hydra.

(Informal)A person unusually skilled in a particular activity

Any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous squamate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia), having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and flexible jaws.

To obtain by deceitful or underhand means.

A treacherous person. Also called snake in the grass.

To take advantage of others for personal gain, especially by fraud and trickery.

A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains. Also called plumber's snake.

(ichthyology) A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

To drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain.

The noctuid moth Cucullia umbratica.

To pull with quick jerks.

A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.

To move in a sinuous or gliding manner

Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.

To move with a sinuous motion

A sleazy and amoral lawyer.

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

An ambulance chaser.

A treacherous person; a rat.

(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.

Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.

(informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).

A tool for unclogging plumbing.

A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

A tool to aid cable pulling.

(rare) To fish for sharks.

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

Of a university student who is not a fresher, to engage in sexual activity with a fresher, or to be at a bar or club with the general intention of engaging in such activity.

(slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.

(maths) A series of Bézier curves.

To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

To live by shifts and stratagems.

An informer; a rat.

(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.

To steal slyly.

A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.

(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.

Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.

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

To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

(nautical) 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 play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

(MLE) To inform; to rat.

To live by shifts and stratagems.

Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

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

A person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

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.

A person who is unusually skilled in certain ways;

To crawl like a snake.

Play the shark; act with trickery

Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

Hunt shark

A deceitful or treacherous person

A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

A long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

Something resembling a snake

Move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

Form a snake-like pattern;

Move along a winding path;