Sloth vs. Snail

Sloth vs. Snail — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Sloth and Snail

Slothnoun

(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

Snailnoun

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

Slothnoun

(countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.

Snailnoun

A slow person; a sluggard.

Slothnoun

(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

Snailnoun

(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.

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Slothverb

To be idle; to idle (away time).

Snailnoun

A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.

Slothnoun

a disinclination to work or exert yourself

Snailnoun

The pod of the snail clover.

Slothnoun

any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

Snailverb

To move or travel very slowly

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Slothnoun

apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Snailnoun

freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

Snailnoun

edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

Snailverb

gather snails;

We went snailing in the summer