snow
雪,白雪,积雪,雪花
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Definitions
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- : Meteorology. a 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.
- : white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal.Compare hash.
- 1
- : to send down snow; fall as snow.
- : to descend like snow.
Phrases
- snow job
- snow under
- pure as the driven snow
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Even I learned some new bits, such as the glorious aside Baggott drily delivers that Francis Bacon died from pneumonia that he contracted from stuffing a dead chicken with snow to see if it would preserve it.
The slim, 1-inch body fits easily in a pocket, and with an IP rating of 68, the light won’t let you down in rain, sleet, or snow.
Spring arrived, as always in the Kashmir Valley, with melting snow and blossoming chinar trees.
His graduate research focused on the glacially carved lakes surrounding California’s Mount Shasta — a setting that gave Priscu, after a childhood in the Mojave Desert, full-on exposure to snow and ice.
Bright snow and ice reflect much of the incoming radiation from the sun.
Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.
But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.
There was snow on the ground when I made my last trip to see Sheffield.
“I think there's too much snow in Finland at the present time,” he announces.
Because the American film industry is based in the sun bleached sands of Southern California, movies rarely feature snow.
To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of .