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Definition of snow in English: snownoun snəʊsnoʊ mass noun1Atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer. we were trudging through deep snow Example sentencesExamples - Precipitation falling as snow complicates the water balance as defined in this way, but the principles are the same.
- This is because the snow is blown around in the wind, and it is hard to know the difference between falling and drifting snow.
- A thin layer of snow had covered the ground and I was freezing.
- Halfway to the Northern palace, two days into the journey, night fell as fresh snow floated to the ground.
- A thin layer of white snow now lay upon the ground and still more was falling heavily.
- For it to be deemed a white Christmas, at least one flake of snow has to fall on the roof of the London weather centre.
- Shoveling snow was beginning to wear on me.
- Having inserted it perpendicularly into the lying snow, it still did not touch the ground.
- I expected to see snow on the mountains, it was that cold.
- To the south there are high mountains, covered in thick spring snow.
- He stood up too and they walked out, their boots crunching though the thin layer of slush and snow covering the ground.
- As wet, fluffy snow fell throughout the day, many protestors began tossing snowballs at riot police.
- The film is astonishingly beautiful in its pristine silver light, with snow on the ground and a weak sun low over the city.
- The tragic ending is atmospheric, with snow falling on a procession of women carrying red lanterns.
- In dry-winter areas that don't freeze or have much snow, water perennials once a month on a sunny, warm day to keep them alive and healthy.
- She landed gently, the winds swirling around her, picking up the small flakes of snow from the ground.
- When the vapor condenses into rain or freezes to make snow, the precipitation is acid, which can fall into lakes.
- Outside, snow fell: fat flakes adhering to the windows and frosting the glass in translucent white.
- He found her sitting alone next to a window, watching snow falling onto the ground.
- There was a heavy, wet snow falling gently on the harbour.
Synonyms snowflakes, flakes, snowdrift, snowfield, snowpack snowfall, snowstorm, blizzard sleet, hail, soft hail avalanche North American snowslide - 1.1snows Falls of snow.
the first snows of winter Example sentencesExamples - Planted with care and planning, bulbs can keep a garden alive with color from the last snows of winter through the first frosts of fall.
- However, on Wednesday the snows arrived and with six to ten inches falling, it brought everything to a virtual standstill.
- If they're fully rooted in fall before winter season snows or rains, come spring, they're fully established and ready to grow.
- I do love the first snow of the season, especially when it happens overnight.
- He would ask after them from a mutual friend, sure, but would he drive across state lines to deliver their wife's baby when the snows had brought down telegraph lines?
- The snows came particularly early last year, at the beginning of September, and lasted well into April.
- Not every sack of grain needs to be distributed to stockpiles before the snows come next month.
- As seasons pass from cherry blossoms and summer beaches to fall foliage and winter snows, their love becomes stronger and more enduring.
- Still, we stood in a large shadow of regret as we called the power company and asked; they were glad to comply, and with alacrity, before the snows.
- The crazy weather conditions are set continue, as forecasters predict that the winter will be the coldest since the devastating snows of 1963.
- We had the first snows of the season last night and Mount Wellington opposite is looking pretty dramatic and beautiful.
- But come late fall, the heavy snows force the crew to leave the Highlands for the relatively hospitable climate of southern Cape Breton.
- The retreat began on 19 October, and within three weeks the first snows had fallen.
- They are white and weathered, the horns cracked and bleached by the snows and frosts, and the rains and heats of many winters and summers.
- Fall rains and winter snows will provide moisture to germinate seeds.
- ‘I was still pretending that she would get through the Sierra before the snows fell,’ Didion writes.
- Their body warmth heated the upper floor where their humans lived and, if the snows of winter and the snow-drifts off the roofs piled up very high, the farmers could still shovel their way down to their snow-bound herds.
- The snows of 1947 had virtually wiped the rabbit population out, but they were back with a vengeance.
- Relief agencies were scrambling to find warm tents from wherever they could before snows begin to fall, the spokesperson said.
- The freezing over of rivers and seas along with snows and ice would interfere with transportation more than higher temperatures would.
2A mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal. all that they could pick up on their screens was snow Example sentencesExamples - Because it certainly looked like it on my television, and we have a digital signal, so it couldn't have been snow or interference.
- The television shows some snow all over the screen, until a blue screen shows ‘play’ on it.
- The television filled with digital snow, casting a pale glow about the darkened room.
- The image was only partially there and most of it was static and white snow from the interference but what he wanted Boswell to see was indeed on the tape.
3A dessert or other dish resembling snow. Example sentencesExamples - At first the technique was used to make a simple, uncooked dish called snow, made from egg white and cream.
- 3.1with modifier A frozen gas resembling snow.
Example sentencesExamples - The first cryogens were liquid air and compressed carbon dioxide snow.
verb snəʊsnoʊ 1be snowed in/upno object Snow falls. it's not snowing so heavily now Example sentencesExamples - I feel so cozy inside when it is snowing - something I miss from living in Edmonton.
- When it snowed hard, we were cut off from our suppliers.
- It was snowing heavily, which is normal for New Zealand in August.
- Nate almost didn't see the jeep that was ahead of him, because it had started snowing pretty heavily.
- That evening it continued snowing heavily as the night grew colder.
- We were also out for Christmas break and it has snowed overnight.
- This morning… can you believe it… it is snowing!
- At the end of the road we stop and it is snowing fairly heavily.
- It was snowing, not heavily but lightly and he decided not to cancel the match.
- He peeks out of the tent to discover that it is snowing.
- It was snowing heavily and within minutes the lawn was covered in a sheet of pristine white.
- This may mean having to check periodically if it is snowing.
- You live in Canada, it snows here in the winter, get over it.
- It snowed heavily for five hours, and then stopped.
- I looked outside, and saw that it had started to snow really hard.
- The weather wasn't really improving it was starting to snow pretty heavily and I feared that the traffic would be a disaster.
- Christy peaked out the window and saw that it had snowed overnight.
- They are saying it will snow again tonight.
- I've just spoken to Sasha, twenty miles away in London, where it is snowing.
- And it hasn't snowed up here since I've been up here.
- 1.1be snowed in/up Be confined or blocked by a large quantity of snow.
I was snowed in for a week Example sentencesExamples - She finally settled in New Mexico, building an adobe house with her own hands on a remote mesa where in winter she was snowed in for weeks at a time…
- We were snowed in, the snow had stopped just before the top of the windows.
- We joke about the long winter nights and the risks of being snowed in.
- So the trapper gathered the furs and snow-packed barrels of meats upon a sled, and pushed it through the passes before they were snowed in by the winter.
- When they wanted to look at the animals up around the Port Hills, in winter the area was snowed up and they could get there in a four wheel drive, but in spring and in autumn it was so wet that they could not get up there.
- We were snowed in again over the weekend, to our great indignation.
- Last year we were snowed in and it took two days to clear the snow away.
- On one occasion we were snowed in and the four boys all had chicken pox so we moved out to a rented cottage in Roxburgh until the snow thawed.
- It had been planned that White would join them last Wednesday morning but he could not arrive at Headingley until later in the day after being snowed in at his Scarborough home.
- Also in 1945 we went into the Welsh Mountains to help feed people who were snowed in.
- He was at Bacup during the severe winter of 1947, when trains were snowed up in the Whitworth area.
- Soon after we moved into our present house in a village near Bath, some 20 years ago, we were snowed in for a week.
- We were having a wonderful time being snowed in at the Mayflower with our friends.
- Twenty years ago, on a ski holiday in Norway, Jeremy was snowed in for a couple of days and came up with the idea of using mountain rescue as the basis for a novel.
- We were snowed in so I couldn't go outside at all.
- They have a windproof shelter, and if they get bored with being snowed in, they can eat the walls.
- I look in the rear view mirror and it's like we've been snowed in.
- Remember the last time we were snowed in together?
- We were all promised blizzards and arctic blasts today, and I dare say everyone was looking forward to being snowed in and enjoying a day off work snuggled up in front of the telly.
- So instead of being snowed in at the airport, I was fogged in.
2North American informal with object Mislead or charm (someone) with elaborate and insincere words. they would snow the public into believing that all was well Example sentencesExamples - She knew she ought to be furious; he hadn't exactly snowed her, but he'd taken advantage of a faith she didn't put in many people, of the memories of her childhood.
- The organization has a proud history of running its own show and snowing successive governments to further its own quite remarkable self interest.
- He quickly came up with a 10 point plan to ensure that CEOs could never snow their investors like that again.
- It really is scary how many people have been snowed by the current administrations' policies.
- He used you people, played on your sympathy and thoroughly snowed you.
- Then he snows her with rapid-fire comments and returns to the ‘you're forgiven’ angle.
- I'm afraid that those who might be snowed by the report's valiant attempt to pass off hope for potential are few.
Phrasal Verbs Be overwhelmed with a very large quantity of something, especially work. he's been snowed under with urgent cases Example sentencesExamples - For the past three months, ambulance crews like 735 have been snowed under with calls.
- I was snowed under in college with exams, just as I am with projects now.
- But I just started 6th form college and I've been snowed under with work.
- The report, for the year 1999, shows the 11 member board is snowed under by a growing backlog of complaints despite a fall in the number of fresh complaints for that year.
- Over the last few months, the two committees have been snowed under with work.
- The city's cat shelter is snowed under with new arrivals, as summer is their busiest period, being similar to the post-Christmas boom in unwanted dogs.
- Well, and it's not just patients and their families that are being snowed under by the paperwork in the bureaucracy.
- He says he has now paid the client her £400, while the delays in replying to the letters happened when he was snowed under with work.
- I have been snowed under by a request to know what colour this farm is; red, yellow or green.
- Experience shows that many directors face one of two challenges: either having far too little information to gain a proper perspective on a company's financial health, or being snowed under by too much information.
- Naturally this column has no understanding of how this happened, but it would be nice to think that we will not be snowed under by complaints about a) its alumni events or b) problems with the alumni website in the future.
- I expected to be snowed under with applications but we have only received 67 and time is running out.
- I genuinely hope that I don't get time to read these books, due to the fact that I'll be snowed under doing miscellaneous ‘other things’ that I can't really talk about at the moment.
- He claims to be snowed under with correspondence.
- And such has been the demand that the ticket office has still been snowed under by requests, with officials at the club not expecting to know the final figures until later this week.
- There wasn't a holiday in the UK, so people were still sending me e-mail, but I took an hour or two at lunch time and cleared them, so that I wouldn't be snowed under when I got in today.
- I've been snowed under with bursary and applying for med school.
- If he has been snowed under lately, blame the Highland weather.
- One respondent told the researchers, ‘Everyone seems to be snowed under now.’
- Last time we were snowed under with similar letters my colleague sent the following reply.
Synonyms inundate, overwhelm, overload, overrun, flood, swamp, deluge, engulf
Derivatives adjective We continued climbing towards the impressive, albeit snowless, peak of Keansani. Example sentencesExamples - The samples from the control plots were carefully dug from beneath the snow, keeping the snowless area as small as possible.
- Brandon traverses a short snowless section of the path.
- We eschew snow because it's a pain to shovel and makes driving difficult, but in the parts of the world that need it, a snowless winter can be devastating to the crops and the water table.
- But it has been snowless in December, balmy in February and it rarely gets above 90 in the summer.
adjective Wearing shorts, flip-flops and a ventilator mask, he was shrouded in a swirling cloud of snowlike particles. Example sentencesExamples - In low-light trials, this noise grew almost to snowlike patterns from the increasing gain.
- Recently, I have been getting snowlike frost on the items in the freezer.
- The trees and everything on the ground were covered thickly with this snowlike stuff so no leaf or branch could be discerned.
- On the surface, there are shells, fish bones and a snowlike powder left behind by the alkaline waters.
Origin Old English snāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sneeuw and German Schnee, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nix, niv- and Greek nipha. sledge from Old English: The sledge that is a vehicle used on snow and ice came in the late 16th century from Dutch and is related to sled (Middle English), sleigh (early 18th century), slide (Old English), and slither (Middle English). Sleigh is from Dutch, and was originally adopted in North America. To take for a sleigh ride is a dated slang phrase meaning ‘to mislead’, from the use of sleigh ride for an implausible or false story or a hoax. A sleigh ride could also mean ‘a drug-induced high’—this went with the use of snow for cocaine in white powder form, an early 20th-century use for this Old English word. As a name for what we would now more usually call a sledgehammer, the other sledge is recorded in Old English and goes back to a root meaning ‘to strike’ and related to slay. A sledgehammer is a large, heavy hammer used for jobs such as breaking rocks and driving in fence posts, so to take a sledgehammer to crack a nut is to use a disproportionately forceful means to achieve a simple objective. The expression is recorded in the 1930s, but a decade earlier an American version use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat appears. In the 1970s Australian cricketers started sledging, or making offensive or needling remarks to opposing batsmen in an attempt to break their concentration. The idea behind the term is the crudity and lack of subtlety involved in using a sledge or sledgehammer.
Rhymes aglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou Definition of snow in US English: snownounsnoʊsnō 1Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer. we were trudging through deep snow the first snow of the season Example sentencesExamples - He found her sitting alone next to a window, watching snow falling onto the ground.
- Precipitation falling as snow complicates the water balance as defined in this way, but the principles are the same.
- This is because the snow is blown around in the wind, and it is hard to know the difference between falling and drifting snow.
- There was a heavy, wet snow falling gently on the harbour.
- Shoveling snow was beginning to wear on me.
- When the vapor condenses into rain or freezes to make snow, the precipitation is acid, which can fall into lakes.
- For it to be deemed a white Christmas, at least one flake of snow has to fall on the roof of the London weather centre.
- The film is astonishingly beautiful in its pristine silver light, with snow on the ground and a weak sun low over the city.
- Having inserted it perpendicularly into the lying snow, it still did not touch the ground.
- A thin layer of snow had covered the ground and I was freezing.
- A thin layer of white snow now lay upon the ground and still more was falling heavily.
- To the south there are high mountains, covered in thick spring snow.
- The tragic ending is atmospheric, with snow falling on a procession of women carrying red lanterns.
- He stood up too and they walked out, their boots crunching though the thin layer of slush and snow covering the ground.
- Outside, snow fell: fat flakes adhering to the windows and frosting the glass in translucent white.
- As wet, fluffy snow fell throughout the day, many protestors began tossing snowballs at riot police.
- In dry-winter areas that don't freeze or have much snow, water perennials once a month on a sunny, warm day to keep them alive and healthy.
- Halfway to the Northern palace, two days into the journey, night fell as fresh snow floated to the ground.
- She landed gently, the winds swirling around her, picking up the small flakes of snow from the ground.
- I expected to see snow on the mountains, it was that cold.
Synonyms snowflakes, flakes, snowdrift, snowfield, snowpack 2A mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal. Example sentencesExamples - Because it certainly looked like it on my television, and we have a digital signal, so it couldn't have been snow or interference.
- The television filled with digital snow, casting a pale glow about the darkened room.
- The television shows some snow all over the screen, until a blue screen shows ‘play’ on it.
- The image was only partially there and most of it was static and white snow from the interference but what he wanted Boswell to see was indeed on the tape.
3A dessert or other dish resembling snow. Example sentencesExamples - At first the technique was used to make a simple, uncooked dish called snow, made from egg white and cream.
- 3.1with modifier A frozen gas resembling snow.
Example sentencesExamples - The first cryogens were liquid air and compressed carbon dioxide snow.
verbsnoʊsnō 1be snowed inno object Snow falls. it's not snowing so heavily now Example sentencesExamples - This may mean having to check periodically if it is snowing.
- Nate almost didn't see the jeep that was ahead of him, because it had started snowing pretty heavily.
- He peeks out of the tent to discover that it is snowing.
- At the end of the road we stop and it is snowing fairly heavily.
- Christy peaked out the window and saw that it had snowed overnight.
- It was snowing heavily, which is normal for New Zealand in August.
- They are saying it will snow again tonight.
- It snowed heavily for five hours, and then stopped.
- You live in Canada, it snows here in the winter, get over it.
- We were also out for Christmas break and it has snowed overnight.
- When it snowed hard, we were cut off from our suppliers.
- I've just spoken to Sasha, twenty miles away in London, where it is snowing.
- I looked outside, and saw that it had started to snow really hard.
- And it hasn't snowed up here since I've been up here.
- I feel so cozy inside when it is snowing - something I miss from living in Edmonton.
- It was snowing heavily and within minutes the lawn was covered in a sheet of pristine white.
- This morning… can you believe it… it is snowing!
- The weather wasn't really improving it was starting to snow pretty heavily and I feared that the traffic would be a disaster.
- It was snowing, not heavily but lightly and he decided not to cancel the match.
- That evening it continued snowing heavily as the night grew colder.
- 1.1be snowed in Be confined or blocked by a large quantity of snow.
I was snowed in for a week Example sentencesExamples - We were all promised blizzards and arctic blasts today, and I dare say everyone was looking forward to being snowed in and enjoying a day off work snuggled up in front of the telly.
- We were snowed in so I couldn't go outside at all.
- I look in the rear view mirror and it's like we've been snowed in.
- Soon after we moved into our present house in a village near Bath, some 20 years ago, we were snowed in for a week.
- On one occasion we were snowed in and the four boys all had chicken pox so we moved out to a rented cottage in Roxburgh until the snow thawed.
- It had been planned that White would join them last Wednesday morning but he could not arrive at Headingley until later in the day after being snowed in at his Scarborough home.
- He was at Bacup during the severe winter of 1947, when trains were snowed up in the Whitworth area.
- Twenty years ago, on a ski holiday in Norway, Jeremy was snowed in for a couple of days and came up with the idea of using mountain rescue as the basis for a novel.
- We were having a wonderful time being snowed in at the Mayflower with our friends.
- We joke about the long winter nights and the risks of being snowed in.
- She finally settled in New Mexico, building an adobe house with her own hands on a remote mesa where in winter she was snowed in for weeks at a time…
- Also in 1945 we went into the Welsh Mountains to help feed people who were snowed in.
- When they wanted to look at the animals up around the Port Hills, in winter the area was snowed up and they could get there in a four wheel drive, but in spring and in autumn it was so wet that they could not get up there.
- So instead of being snowed in at the airport, I was fogged in.
- So the trapper gathered the furs and snow-packed barrels of meats upon a sled, and pushed it through the passes before they were snowed in by the winter.
- We were snowed in again over the weekend, to our great indignation.
- They have a windproof shelter, and if they get bored with being snowed in, they can eat the walls.
- Remember the last time we were snowed in together?
- Last year we were snowed in and it took two days to clear the snow away.
- We were snowed in, the snow had stopped just before the top of the windows.
2North American informal with object Mislead or charm (someone) with elaborate and insincere words. they would snow the public into believing that all was well Example sentencesExamples - It really is scary how many people have been snowed by the current administrations' policies.
- I'm afraid that those who might be snowed by the report's valiant attempt to pass off hope for potential are few.
- The organization has a proud history of running its own show and snowing successive governments to further its own quite remarkable self interest.
- She knew she ought to be furious; he hadn't exactly snowed her, but he'd taken advantage of a faith she didn't put in many people, of the memories of her childhood.
- Then he snows her with rapid-fire comments and returns to the ‘you're forgiven’ angle.
- He quickly came up with a 10 point plan to ensure that CEOs could never snow their investors like that again.
- He used you people, played on your sympathy and thoroughly snowed you.
Phrasal Verbs Be overwhelmed with a large quantity of something, especially work. he's been snowed under with urgent cases Example sentencesExamples - And such has been the demand that the ticket office has still been snowed under by requests, with officials at the club not expecting to know the final figures until later this week.
- If he has been snowed under lately, blame the Highland weather.
- The report, for the year 1999, shows the 11 member board is snowed under by a growing backlog of complaints despite a fall in the number of fresh complaints for that year.
- The city's cat shelter is snowed under with new arrivals, as summer is their busiest period, being similar to the post-Christmas boom in unwanted dogs.
- I was snowed under in college with exams, just as I am with projects now.
- Well, and it's not just patients and their families that are being snowed under by the paperwork in the bureaucracy.
- I have been snowed under by a request to know what colour this farm is; red, yellow or green.
- I genuinely hope that I don't get time to read these books, due to the fact that I'll be snowed under doing miscellaneous ‘other things’ that I can't really talk about at the moment.
- Naturally this column has no understanding of how this happened, but it would be nice to think that we will not be snowed under by complaints about a) its alumni events or b) problems with the alumni website in the future.
- For the past three months, ambulance crews like 735 have been snowed under with calls.
- Last time we were snowed under with similar letters my colleague sent the following reply.
- But I just started 6th form college and I've been snowed under with work.
- Experience shows that many directors face one of two challenges: either having far too little information to gain a proper perspective on a company's financial health, or being snowed under by too much information.
- I've been snowed under with bursary and applying for med school.
- He claims to be snowed under with correspondence.
- One respondent told the researchers, ‘Everyone seems to be snowed under now.’
- Over the last few months, the two committees have been snowed under with work.
- He says he has now paid the client her £400, while the delays in replying to the letters happened when he was snowed under with work.
- I expected to be snowed under with applications but we have only received 67 and time is running out.
- There wasn't a holiday in the UK, so people were still sending me e-mail, but I took an hour or two at lunch time and cleared them, so that I wouldn't be snowed under when I got in today.
Synonyms inundate, overwhelm, overload, overrun, flood, swamp, deluge, engulf
Origin Old English snāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sneeuw and German Schnee, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nix, niv- and Greek nipha. |