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snow
1[ snoh ]
noun
- Meteorology. precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.
- the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall.
- something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like:
the snow of fresh linen.
- Literary.
- white blossoms.
- the white color of snow.
- Slang. cocaine or heroin.
- Usually snows. Informal. snow tires ( def ):
Most people up here keep their snows on through the end of April.
- white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash 1( def 5 ).
verb (used without object)
- to send down snow; fall as snow.
- to descend like snow.
verb (used with object)
- to let fall as or like snow.
- Slang.
- to make an overwhelming impression on:
The view really snowed them.
- to persuade or deceive:
She was snowed into believing everything.
verb phrase
- to cover with or bury in snow.
- to overwhelm with a larger amount of something than can be conveniently dealt with.
- to defeat overwhelmingly.
Snow
2[ snoh ]
noun
- Sir Charles Percy C. P. Snow, 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
Snow
1/ əʊ /
noun
- SnowC(harles) P(ercy), Baron19051980MBritishWRITING: novelistSCIENCE: physicist C ( harles ) P ( ercy ), Baron. 1905–80, British novelist and physicist. His novels include the series Strangers and Brothers (1949–70)
snow
2/ əʊ /
noun
- precipitation from clouds in the form of flakes of ice crystals formed in the upper atmosphere niveous
- a layer of snowflakes on the ground
- a fall of such precipitation
- anything resembling snow in whiteness, softness, etc
- the random pattern of white spots on a television or radar screen, produced by noise in the receiver and occurring when the signal is weak or absent
- slang.cocaine
verb
- intr; with it as subject to be the case that snow is falling
- tr; usually passive, foll by over, under, in, or up to cover or confine with a heavy fall of snow
- often withit as subject to fall or cause to fall as or like snow
- slang.tr to deceive or overwhelm with elaborate often insincere talk See snow job
- be snowed underto be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
snow
/ ō /
- Precipitation that falls to earth in the form of ice crystals that have complex branched hexagonal patterns. Snow usually falls from stratus and stratocumulus clouds, but it can also fall from cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds.
Derived Forms
- ˈԴǷɱ, adjective
- ˈԴǷˌ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴǷ· adjective
- ԴǷ· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of snow1
Origin of snow2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of snow1
Idioms and Phrases
- pure as the driven snow
Example Sentences
In 2020, the Pasadena resident was trekking in deep snow up to the summit of Mt.
The brief rainstorm comes only days after state officials announced that the state’s snowpack had reached 96% of average on April 1, when the snow season typically reaches its peak.
This year also brought a pattern of more snow and wetter conditions in Northern California, with less snow and drier conditions in Southern California.
Before the film was released, Zegler faced abuse online by people who disagreed with her casting in the role of a character deemed to have skin "as white as snow".
I remember him saying that in his New York apartment, he practiced Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings on his upright bass while watching snow fall outside his window.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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