Meaning of snow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
   uncountable
3. The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer. An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm
4. A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
   historical
5. An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
   countable
6. An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm
7. A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
   countable
8. A period of time when snow falls; a winter
9. An accumulation or spread of snow.
   countable
10. An accumulation or spread of snow
11. Something resembling snow (etymology 1 sense 1) in appearance or color.
    countable
12. A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
    countable
13. Something resembling snow (etymology 1 sense 1) in appearance or color. A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy
14. The white color of snow.
    countable, uncountable
15. Clusters of white flowers.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
16. The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
17. Sea foam; sea spray.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
18. Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
19. White marble.
    countable, figuratively, poetic, uncountable
20. Money, especially silver coins.
    countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
21. White linen which has been washed.
    countable, dated, figuratively, slang, uncountable
22. Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
    countable, uncountable
23. Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
24. Powder cocaine.
    slang, uncountable
25. An opiate powder, whether heroin or morphine.
    countable, slang, uncommon, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.”

“Didſt thou but knovv the inly touch of Loue, / Thou vvouldſt as ſoone goe kindle fire vvith ſnovv / As ſeeke to quench the fire of Loue vvith vvords.”

“And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]”

“The top of this Peake [Teide on Tenerife] or Pyramide […] by reaſon of their rare height and affinitie vvith the middle Aerie Region are ſeldome vvithout Snovv.”

“He [Ben Jonson] vvas not onely a profeſſed Imitator of Horace, but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every vvhere in their Snovv: […]”

“Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]”

“Some vapours that aſcend to great heights, vvill be frozen into ſnovv; […]”

“A mighty Senate;—some, whose white hair shone / Like mountain snow, mild, beautiful, and blind.”

“No wind that blew was bitterer than he [Ebenezer Scrooge], no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.”

“When one has been a year at Oxford, there isn't much snow left to soil; […]”

“The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing round in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest, and sometimes the place was Pooh's nose and sometimes it wasn't, and in a little while Piglet was wearing a white muffler round his neck and feeling more snowy behind the ears than he had ever felt before.”

“I'm dreaming of a white Christmas / Just like the ones I used to know / Where the tree tops glisten / And children listen / To hear sleigh bells in the snow”

“Hear the snow crunch, see the kids bunch / This is Santa's big scene / And above all the bustle you'll hear / Silver bells […]”

“Oh, I won't ask for much this Christmas / I won't even wish for snow / I'm just gonna keep on waiting / Underneath the mistletoe”

“TRUE FACT: On June 8, 1995, Glacier National Park was closed because of too much snow.”

“We have had several heavy snows this year.”

“At Chriſtmas I no more deſire a Roſe, / Then vviſh a Snovv in Mayes nevv fangled ſhovves: / But like of each thing that in ſeaſon grovves.”

“[H]ovv calm he ſits at eaſe, / Mid ſnovvs of paper, and fierce hail of peaſe?”

“The blasts of autumn drive the winged seeds / Over the earth,—next come the snows, and rain, / And frosts, and storms, which dreary winter leads / Out of his Scythian cave, a savage train; […]”

“[G]reat white tassels, swinging from every tree in the breeze which swept down the glade, tossed in their faces a fragrant snow of blossoms, and glittering drops of perfumed dew.”

“They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirty snows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head; […]”

“The path by which we twain did go, / Which led by tracts that pleased us well, / Thro' four sweet years arose and fell, / From flower to flower, from snow to snow: […]”

“VVhen VVinter ſhuts the Seas, and fleecy Snovvs / Make Houſes vvhite, ſhe to the Merchant goes: / Rich Cryſtals of the Rock She takes up there, / Huge Agat Vaſes, and old China VVare: […]”

“This River [the Rubicon] is not ſo contemptible as it is generally repreſented, and vvas much increas'd by the melting of the Snovvs vvhen [Julius] Cæſar paſs'd it, according to Lucan.”

“It must be so—I will arise and waken / The multitude, and like a sulphurous hill [volcano], / Which on a sudden from its snows has shaken / The swoon of ages, it shall burst and fill / The world with cleansing fire: […]”

“[H]is mind at least will defy your influence, as the snows of that Mount Blanc which we saw together, shrink not under the heat of the summer sun.”

“[I]t well may happen yonder, where the far snows blanch / Mute Mont Blanc, that who stands near them sees and hears an avalanche,— […]”

“apple snow    lemon snow”

“The daughters of the land were beautiful, with blue eyes and fair hair, and bosoms of snow, […]”

“A scent of pine-wood from a tent-like pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite; […]”

“Near-synonym: static”

“I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one. They don't make them like this anymore, he said. He got rid of the snow and all he charged me was two dollars.”

“Indeed, to the laſt days of her life, my Lady Viſcounteſs had the comfort of fancying herſelf beautiful, and perſiſted in blooming up to the very midſt of winter, painting roſes on her cheeks long after their natural ſeaſon, and attiring herſelf like ſummer though her head was covered with ſnow.”

“Ere now marmoreal floods had spread their couch / Of perdurable snow, or granite wrought / Its skyward impulse from earth's hearth of fire / Up to insanest heights.”

“Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow towards the gates of the Arena.”

“Lower down, in the 95 per cent of the ocean where light does not penetrate, many living things feed on ‘marine snow’, the steady drizzle of particles of dead matter, whitish in colour, gradually sinking from the euphotic zone above. Other animals then feed on the ‘snow’ eaters.”

“Aren’t I telling you that’s why I didn’t taste it? […] Besides, if it wasn’t poison, it might be ‘snow’ or something.”

“An ESTIMATE made of the Annual Expence of a Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men (Officers included) Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, beſides Swivels.”

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