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Definition: Snowflake |
SnowflakeNoun1. A crystal of snow. 2. White arctic bunting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snowflake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
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Biology & Biotechnology | A finch. . . of northern regions that is related to the longspurs, breeds in the arctic regions, in winter often appears in large flocks. . . called also snowflake. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Agglomerations of snow crystals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Fine fissures found lying in all directions in the interior of steel forgings. Source: European Union. (references) |
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For the albino gorilla named Snowflake, see Floquet de Neu.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Snowflake is a town located in Navajo County, Arizona. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 4,460.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snowflake."
Synonyms: SnowflakeSynonyms: flake (n), snow bunting (n), snowbird (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_e, serac; pruina. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Snowflake |
| Specialty definitions using "snowflake": fractal dimension. (references) |
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Screenplays | My beautiful snowflake you know I'd never let anything harm you. Remember how to use this? (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) | |
Clever | The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Magic Snowflake Sword (1964) Susie Snowflake (1916) | |
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Stanislaw J. Lec | No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. |
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| "Snowflake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.77% of the time. "Snowflake" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.77% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Snowflake, AZ (town, FIPS 67800) |
Expression using "snowflake": summer snowflake. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | flok dëbore (flake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | снежинка (flake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 雪花 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | snìhová vloèka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Flocken (flacky crack, flake, hair internal crack, hair line crack, lemon spot, shatter crack, thermal burst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sneeuwvlok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | neĝero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | flykra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | برف ریزه , برف دانه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lumihiutale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | flocon de neige. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schneeflocke (snow flake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριχοειδής ρηγμάτωση (hair line crack, lemon spot, shatter crack, thermal burst), τριχοειδής εσωτερική ρηγμάτωση (flacky crack, flake, hair internal crack, hair line crack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פתית של'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hópehely (flake), hópihe (flake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fiocco di neve (snow flake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 雪片 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せっぺ" (cut-off scraps, segment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 눈송이. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiannag niaghtee, floag sniaghtee, claddan sniaghtee, claddan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owflakesnay flocodeneve, floco de neve, fendas capilares (hair line crack, lemon spot, shatter crack, thermal burst), fenda capilar (flacky crack, flake, hair internal crack, hair line crack), emberiza-das-neves (snowbird). (various references) scrotta da naiv. (various references) kookoochìn. (various references) снежинка (flake of snow, flurry, snow-flake). (various references) pahuljica (down, flake, fuze). (various references) copo de nieve. (various references) snöflinga. (various references) kuşbaşı kar, kar taneciği (flake, fleck of snow), iri kar tanesi. (various references) сніговий подорожник, сніжинка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "snowflake": snowflakes. (additional references) | |
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"Snowflake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: snowfiake. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-k-l-n-o-s-w" | |
-2 letters: knawels, seafowl. | |
-3 letters: ankles, anoles, awoken, felons, flakes, flanes, flanks, kelson, kenafs, knawel, lanose, wakens, weason. | |
-4 letters: aeons, alefs, aloes, alone, ankle, anole, askew, awoke, awols, elans, enols, enows, fakes, false, fanes, fanos, fawns, felon, flake, flank, flans, flask, flaws, fleas, flews, floes, flown, flows, foals, folks, fowls, kales, kanes, kaons, kenaf, kenos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-k-l-n-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: snowflakes. | |
+5 letters: blanketflowers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 6F 77 66 6C 61 6B 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. --- .--. ..-. .-.. .- -.- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01100110 01101100 01100001 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n o w f l a k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 006F 0077 0066 006C 0061 006B 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538081897278677771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Cities 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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