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Definition: Snow |
SnowNoun1. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals. 2. A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground. 3. English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980). 4. A narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become addictive. Verb1. Fall as snow; "It was snowing all night.". 2. Conceal one's true motives from esp. by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | = grass. (references) |
Bible | Snow Common in Palestine in winter (Ps. 147:16). The snow on the tops of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred writers (Job 24:19; Ps. 51:7; 68:14; Isa. 1:18). It is mentioned only once in the historical books (2 Sam. 23:20). It was "carried to Tyre, Sidon, and Damascus as a luxury, and labourers sweltering in the hot harvest-fields used it for the purpose of cooling the water which they drank (Prov. 25:13; Jer. 18:14). No doubt Herod Antipas, at his feasts in Tiberias, enjoyed also from this very source the modern luxury of ice-water." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To see snow in your dreams, denotes that while you have no real misfortune, there will be the appearance of illness, and unsatisfactory enterprises. To find yourself in a snow storm, denotes sorrow and disappointment in failure to enjoy some long-expected pleasure. There always follows more or less discouragement after this dream. If you eat snow, you will fail to realize ideals. To see dirty snow, foretells that your pride will be humbled, and you will seek reconciliation with some person whom you held in haughty contempt. To see it melt, your fears will turn into joy. To see large, white snowflakes falling while looking through a window, foretells that you will have an angry interview with your sweetheart, and the estrangement will be aggravated by financial depression. To see snow-capped mountains in the distance, warns you that your longings and ambitions will bring no worthy advancement. To see the sun shining through landscapes of snow, foretells that you will conquer adverse fortune and possess yourself of power. For a young woman to dream of sleighing, she will find much opposition to her choice of a lover, and her conduct will cause her much ill-favor. To dream of snowballing, denotes that you will have to struggle with dishonorable issues, and if your judgment is not well grounded, you will suffer defeat. If snowbound or lost, there will be constant waves of ill luck breaking in upon you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | A form of noise picked up by a television receiver caused by a weak signal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Precipitation composed of white or translucent ice crystals, chiefly in complex branched hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snow-flakes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Cocaine is called "snow", because it is a fine white powder, and it is often sniffed and absorbed from the nasal mucosa. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Vapor-deposited skeletal ice crystals without a substrate; theiraccumulation; used for recreation and as a coolant. See:ice. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Speckled background on an intensity-modulated display, due to random electrical noise. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | Crystals of ice that form from water vapor in the upper atmosphere and fall to Earth in soft white flakes. Precipitation in the form of crystals. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SNOW. Linen hung out to dry or bleach. Spice the snow; to steal the linen. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For other use, see snow (disambiguation).
Snow, a form of precipitation, is a crystalline form of water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes. Since it is composed of small rough particles, it has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure. It is commonly formed when water vapor sublimates high in the atmosphere and then falls to the ground. Very light snow falling is called flurries or just a flurry.
Snow can be also manufactured using snow cannons, which actually create tiny granules more like sleet. (This is sometimes called "grits" by those in the southern U.S for its likeness to the texture of the food.)
Snowfall varies by time and location, including geographic latitude, elevation and other factors which affect weather in general. In Southern latitudes, there is less chance of snow fall. Some mountains, even at or near the equator, have permanent snow cover on their top, including Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Conversely, many regions of the Arctic and Antarctic receive very little precipitation and therefore little snow, despite the bitter cold.
Substantial snowfall sometimes disrupts infrastructure and services even in regions that are accustomed to them. Traffic may be snarled or even completely stop. Basic infrastructure such as electricity and gap supply can be shut down. A snow day is a day on which school or other services are cancelled owing to unusually heavy snowfall. In areas that normally have very little snow, this may occur even with light accumulation — something often made fun of by those people used to colder climates, where streets would remain passable given the same amount of snow.
Forms of recreation depending on snow:
Where snow is scarce but the temperature is low enough, snow cannons may be used to produce an adequate amount for such sports.
- many winter sports, such as skiing and snowboarding
- playing with a sled or riding in a sleigh
- building a snowman or snow fort
- throwing snowballs mutually in a snowball fight or at others to tease them.
Tightly packed snow may be used as a construction material in, for example, Inuit snow houses.
The concept that no two snowflakes are alike is incorrect: in a volume of snow two feet square by ten inches deep there are roughly one million flakes, and so statistically many snowflakes must be visually identical. The American Meteorological Society has reported that matching snow crystals were discovered by Nancy Knight of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The crystals were not flakes in the usual sense but rather hollow hexagonal prisms.
See also
- avalanche
- sleigh
- skiing
- snowboard
- snow cannon
- frost
- snowshoe
- igloo
External Links
- National Science Digital Library - Snowflake
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snow."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Snow is:
- snow - related to precipitation
- Snow is a slang term for cocaine.
- Snow, born 1971 as Darrin O'Brien in Toronto, Canada, is an award-winning musician and video artist. His single "Informer" is one of the largest-selling reggae records of all time. His debut album was called 12 Inches of Snow (1992).
- A snow was a two-masted merchant vessel of the 16th through the 19th centuries, the largest two-masted ship of her period with a tonnage of up to around 1,000 tons, primarily a merchant ship but also used at war. She carried square sails on both masts, but had a small trysail mast (also called a snowmast) stepped immediately abaft the mainmast from which a trysail with a boom was set, with the luff of the trysail hooped to it. At times the trysail mast was replaced by a horse on the mainmast, to which the luff of the trysail was attached by rings.
- Snow a colloquial term for white noise on a television set when the current channel is untuned.
- Snowflake (Floquet de Neu in Catalan, Copito de Nieve in Spanish) was a famous albino gorilla, the only one known to exist, who lived at the Parc Zoològic de Barcelona in Spain.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snow (disambiguation)."
Synonyms: SnowSynonyms: cocain (n), cocaine (n), coke (n), snowfall (n), bamboozle (v), hoodwink (v), lead by the nose (v), play false (v), pull the wool over someone's eyes (v). (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. |
Refuge | Jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning rod, lightning conductor; safety belt, airbag, seat belt; antilock brakes, antiskid tires, snow tires. |
Ship | Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's a snow cone maker (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) Snow, where are you going (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) I'm a snow beast (My Big Fat Greek Wedding; writing credit: Nia Vardalos) Wendy! You have a surprise coming to you. Go check out the Snow Cat and the radio and you'll see what I mean (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) They're watching Snow White (Gremlins; writing credit: Chris Columbus) | |
Lyrics | Like walking in the rain and the snow (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC) Her eyes shine like diamonds in a field of snow (Pass You By; performing artist: Boyz II Men) Through descending snow, and through the frost and thunder (On The Road To Find Out; performing artist: Cat Stevens) The snow was falling Christmas Eve (Same Old Lang Syne; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean) | |
Clever | Why is it that rain drops but snow falls? (references; author: unknown) Adolescence and snow are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Santa's sleigh slides on slick snow. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | It's Snow (1974) The Incredible Flight of the Snow Geese (1973) Cactus in the Snow (1970) Snow Bear (1970) The Snow Bunnies (1970) | |
Song Titles | Snow Crash (performing artist: Neil Stephenson) Little Snow White Coupe (performing artist: The Tokens) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (2) color slides of a snow pea. (1) group of four snow peas, (1) single snow pea string. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Snow in New England 1998/1999/2000. Credit: NASA. |
 | SR-71 Over Snow Capped Mountains. Credit: NASA. |  | Snow on the Vacuum Spheres. Credit: NASA. |
 | Snow owl. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Running Snow Hole Rapids on Salmon River Transportation for level party Level party of Ira Rubottom. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | On way to Station Stump Too much soft snow. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Snow in the marsh. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Seemingly endless mountains and snow between Petersburg and Juneau. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Drifting snow at the Oliktok Point Camp. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "A different type of snow cloud" by Nathan Sudds Commentary: "These clouds almost appeared like snow when we were dropping altittude as we approached Toronto, Ontario via plane <br> <br>Camera: Canon SD 10 4.0 MB." | "Dirty Snow" by Curtis Calhoun Commentary: "This is a close-up of a pile of snow after a snowplow pushed it from the roadway. I always thought the picture was very abstract and had interesting texture." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Caleb Colton | Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. |
Confucius | Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. |
Earl Wilson | Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. |
Edwin Booth | An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. |
L. M. Child | No snow falls lighter than the snow of age; but none lies heavier, for it never melts. |
Lao-Tzu | The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. |
Simon Dach | Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. |
Sir Walter Scott | We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. |
William Shakespeare | Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Every body must have seen the snow coming on. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The darkness and the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold, winter day, with snow upon the ground |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | He had read somewhere that the Eskimos had over two hundred different words for snow, without which their conversation would probably have got very monotonous |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The snow which had been falling ever since morning, was so deep that they had not heard the fiacre arrive, and did not hear it go away |
A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Madeleine L'Engle | At terra at this fateful hour I call upon all heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lighting with its rapid wrath, And the winds with the swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All this I place,By God's Almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Right, as snow in harvest |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost as green as grass |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Leaf litter provides a moist cover from wind, snow, and other elements. (references) | |
Business | The U.S. tourism industry should highlight these attractions as well as the differences between the services and environment in the U.S., such as comparatively low hotel and car rental rates, large hotel rooms, package deals, reliable snow coverage in the winter, ski lessons, special features for families and children, and hospitality. (references) | |
Children | Iceland | Moreover, the regulations also specify that, to the extent possible, the sidewalk outside the main entrance of a public accommodation or government building should be heated so that it remains clear of ice and snow throughout the winter. (references) |
Economic History | Algeria | Frost and snow are rare, except on the highest slopes of the Tellian Atlas Mountains. (references) |
Tajikistan | The principal rivers of Central Asia, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, both flow through Tajiksitan, fed by melting snow from mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyztsan. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle. Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be -- Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth, With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth. While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incadescent youth, From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth. He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote -- For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow: "Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow." Halcyon Jones |
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Phyllis Diller | When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body, I wear snow chains to hold up my gown. |
Prince Albert of Monaco | I would compare it to California. We do have snow up in the mountains above and it has snowed in Monaco, but very infrequently. |
Rush Limbaugh | Even when Tony Snow came at Edwards with the fact that Al Gore's brother-in-law favors Judge Pickering, Edwards managed to weasel free. |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | As I came into the Capitol tonight, I saw the farmers, my fellow farmers, standing out in the snow. |
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| "Snow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.49% of the time. "Snow" is used about 3,353 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) | 87.49% | 2,934 | 3,178 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.4% | 349 | 15,301 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.03% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,353 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "snow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Snow | Last name | 21,000 | 567 |
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| Country | Name |
| Japan | Snow Brand Food Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Snow, OK |
Expressions using "snow": a fall of snow ♦ Baron Snow of Leicester ♦ blowing snow ♦ C. P. Snow ♦ Charles Percy Snow ♦ clear of snow ♦ clear the streets of snow ♦ compact snow ♦ compacted snow ♦ corn snow ♦ cover with artificial snow ♦ covered by snow ♦ covered with snow ♦ crusted snow ♦ crusty snow ♦ day of snow ♦ day of snow lying ♦ day with snow cover ♦ drift snow ♦ drifting snow ♦ dry snow ♦ fall of snow ♦ flakes of snow ♦ fleck of snow ♦ frost snow ♦ frozen snow ♦ granular snow ♦ guide markers for snow clearing ♦ Lady snow ♦ low drifting snow ♦ marine snow ♦ marker post for snow clearing ♦ melted snow ♦ melting snow ♦ Mount Snow ♦ Northern snow bedstraw ♦ plodding through the snow ♦ powder snow ♦ powder with snow ♦ powdery snow ♦ rain and snow ♦ red snow ♦ road is blocked with snow ♦ rolled snow ♦ scurry of snow ♦ shovel a path through the snow ♦ snow and rain ♦ snow ball ♦ snow bank ♦ snow banks ♦ snow banner ♦ snow bin ♦ snow blindness ♦ snow blower ♦ snow boots ♦ snow bunny ♦ snow bunting ♦ Snow Camp ♦ snow cannon ♦ snow cap ♦ snow cat ♦ snow chains ♦ snow chukor ♦ snow clearance ♦ snow cock ♦ snow cover ♦ snow day ♦ snow drift ♦ snow eater ♦ snow fall ♦ snow fence ♦ snow flake ♦ snow flea ♦ snow flood ♦ snow flower ♦ snow flurry ♦ snow fly ♦ snow gage ♦ snow gnat ♦ snow goose ♦ snow grains ♦ snow gum ♦ snow gun ♦ Snow Hill ♦ snow in ♦ snow insect ♦ snow is falling ♦ snow job ♦ Snow Lake ♦ snow leopard ♦ snow lily ♦ snow line ♦ snow lying day ♦ snow maker ♦ snow melt ♦ snow mist ♦ snow mouse ♦ snow mushroom ♦ snow off ♦ snow orchid ♦ snow partridge. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "snow": snow-bank, snow-banks, snow-birds, snow-blanketed, snow-blind, snow-blinded, Snow-blindness, snow-blink, snow-blocked, snow-blower, snow-blowers, snow-blown, Snow-bound, snow-breaker, snow-bright, Snow-broth, Snow-capped, snow-carpeted, snow-caused, snow-chaos, snow-clad, snow-cleaners, snow-clearer, snow-clogged, snow-cloud, snow-coated, snow-cock, snow-cover, snow-covered, snow-covered surface, snow-covering, snow-dazzle, snow-draped, snow-drift, snow-drifts, snow-dripping, snow-drop, snow-dust, snow-dusted, snow-encrusted, snow-famine, snow-field, snow-filled, snow-flake, snow-flakes, snow-flecked, snow-free, snow-frozen, snow-gale, snow-gates, snow-grooming, snow-ground, snow-hungry, snow-ice, snow-in-summer, snow-job, snow-laced, snow-laden, snow-light, snow-like, snow-line, snow-lit, snow-locked, snow-lonely, snow-maiden, snow-making, snow-mantled, snow-melt, snow-on-the-boots, snow-on-the-mountain, snow-packed, snow-piled, snow-plough, snow-ploughs, snow-plow, snow-plowing equipment, snow-plowing operations, snow-powdered, snow-scape, snow-screen, snow-shoes, snow-shrouded, snow-skiing, snow-slide, snow-slip, snow-slope, snow-soaked, snow-spattered, snow-starved, snow-storm, snow-storms, snow-streaked, snow-striped, snow-suit, snow-swept, snow-tipped, snow-topped, snow-vales, snow-washed, snow-water, snow-wet, snow-white, snow-wreath, snow-wreaths. | |
Ending with "snow": all-snow, artificial-snow, blood-snow, compressed-snow, driven-snow, evening-snow, fire-snow, ground-snow, lady-snow, over-snow, spray-snow, wrong-kind-of-snow. | |
Containing "snow": a snow-storm, not-so-snow-white. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
snow | 2,616 | snow tire | 195 |
aurora snow | 1,569 | snow angel | 163 |
snow leopard | 1,308 | snow tube | 147 |
snow white | 1,192 | snow white picture | 142 |
snow melting | 742 | snow mountain | 138 |
snow blower | 621 | snow dog | 127 |
snow boot | 399 | snow falling on cedar | 123 |
snow gear | 365 | hank snow | 122 |
snow removal | 359 | snow cone syrup | 116 |
snow globe | 357 | snow picture | 115 |
snow white and the seven dwarf | 354 | snow college | 111 |
snow cone | 310 | snow scene | 111 |
snow skiing | 308 | snow craft | 108 |
snow cone machine | 285 | snow cone maker | 105 |
brittany snow | 244 | mount snow | 98 |
snow plow | 242 | snow owl | 96 |
snow chain | 205 | snow storm | 94 |
snow sled | 204 | snow day | 90 |
snow ski | 200 | phoebe snow | 88 |
snow bunny | 195 | tony snow | 86 |
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| Language | Translations for "snow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sneeu. (various references) | |
Albanian | borë. (various references) | |
Arabic | كوكايين (cocaine, coke), غطى بالثلج, تساقط الثلج, ثلج (drift, ice, quick acting, quick freeze, slip), شىء كالثلج. (various references) | |
Asturian | ñeve. (various references) | |
Aymara | khunu. (various references) | |
Basque | elur. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | kóóssko. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | убеждавам с чара си, сняг, снеговалеж (fall of snow, snowfall), снежен (snowy), хероин (heroin, horse), кокаин (cocaine, coke), вали сняг, от сняг, за сняг, белтъци на сняг, побелели коси, падам като сняг, пленявам (captivate, capture, charm, enchant, enslave, fascinate, ravish, take captive, take prisoner). (various references) | |
Catalan | neu. (various references) | |
Cebuano | niebe. (various references) | |
Chamorro | niebi. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雪 . (various references) | |
Cornish | érgh. (various references) | |
Czech | sníh. (various references) | |
Danish | sne (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, rocks, she, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
Dutch | sneeuw (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), sneeuwen. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | rasu. (various references) | |
Esperanto | neĝo, neĝi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kavi. (various references) | |
Farsi | برف امدن , برف باریدن , برف . (various references) | |
Finnish | lumi. (various references) | |
French | neige (snows), neiger, blanche. (various references) | |
Frisian | snie. (various references) | |
German | Schnee (scag, whisked egg-white), schneien (rain down, to snow). (various references) | |
Greek | χιόνι (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), χιονίζω. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | deborë, borë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תלג, שלג. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hó. (various references) | |
Icelandic | snjór. (various references) | |
Indonesian | salju. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | aput. (various references) | |
Irish | sneachta. (various references) | |
Italian | neve (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, boy, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, Helen, Henry, her, horse, jam, jee jee, jojee, Jones, joy powder, lady, Mrs.White, nose candy, peanut butter, pimp's drug, scag, she, smack, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white boy, white girl, white lady), nevicare (snowing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雪 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しろいもの (gray hair, something white), こうせつ (explanation, gossip, public, sexual intercourse, skill, snowfall, tact, talk about town, workmanship, your opinion), りっか (beginning of summer, first day of summer), スノー , ゆき (going), はくぎん (silver), てんか (addition, annexing, blame, change, changing one's academic course, corruption, descent from heaven, fire caused by lightning, having one's own way, ignition, imputation, inversion, lighting, remarriage, second marriage, set fire to, the public, the ruling power, the world, transformation, whole country). (various references) | |
Korean | 눈 (Eye, eyes, Ocular, Optic, snowy). (various references) | |
Lombard | nev. (various references) | |
Macedonian | sneg. (various references) | |
Malay | salju. (various references) | |
Manx | sniaghtey, ceau sniaghtey. (various references) | |
Maori | huka (sugar). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sne. (various references) | |
Occitan | nevar, nèu. (various references) | |
Papago | gew. (various references) | |
Papiamen | sneu. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owsnay.(various references) | |
Polish | śnieg. (various references) | |
Portuguese | neve (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), nevar (to snow). (various references) | |
Provencal | nèu. (various references) | |
Romanian | ninge (it is snowing). (various references) | |
Romansch | naiv. (various references) | |
Romany | iv. (various references) | |
Russian | снег. (various references) | |
Samoan | kiona. (various references) | |
Scottish | sneachda, sneachd. (various references) | |
Sepedi | lehlwa. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sneg, snežni (nival), zavrteti nekome pamet, padati (fall, rain, recede, shut in), mali jedrenjak (lugger), kokain (cocaine). (various references) | |
Sicilian | nivi. (various references) | |
Spanish | nieve (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), nevar. (various references) | |
Swahili | theluji. (various references) | |
Swedish | snö, snöa. (various references) | |
Turkish | kar. (various references) | |
Turkmen | gar (bite). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | іти (become, go, walk), сніговий покрив, снігопад (snowfall), сніг, сипатися як сніг, литися потоком, білизна (argent, clothes, laundry, snow white, underlinen, washing, white, whiteness), порошок білого кольору. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lượng tuyết rơi vật trắng như tuyết. (various references) | |
Welsh | eira. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cana, canae, canam, candor, candorem, cane, cani, canis, cano, canos, canum, gelu, gelum, nive, nivem, nives, nivi, nivis, nivium, nix, phygelus. (various references) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | hima. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou frontizei twn en oikw o anhr authV otan pou cronizh panteV gar oi par' authV endiduskontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Lameth non timebit domui suae a frigoribus nivis omnes enim domestici eius vestiti duplicibus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lameth. She shal not drede to hir hous of coldys of snoy; alle forsothe hir homli men ben clad with double. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Siya dili mahadlok sa nieve alang sa iyang panimalay; Kay ang iyang sulod-balay gibistihan sa mapula. |
| Chinese | 他 不 因 下 雪 為 家 裡 的 人 擔 心 、 因 為 全 家 都 穿 著 朱 紅 衣 服 ． |
| Croatian | Ne boji se snijega za svoje ukuæane, jer sva èeljad ima po dvoje haljine. |
| Danish | Af Sne har hun intet at frygte for sit Hus, thi hele hendes Hus er klædt i Skarlagen. |
| Dutch | Lamed. Zij vreest voor haar huis niet vanwege de sneeuw; want haar ganse huis is met dubbele klederen gekleed. |
| Finnish | Ei pelkää hän perheensä puolesta lunta, sillä koko hänen perheensä on puettu purppuravillaan. |
| French | Elle ne craint pas la neige pour sa maison, Car toute sa maison est vêtue de cramoisi. |
| German | Sie fürchtet für ihr Haus nicht den Schnee; denn ihr ganzes Haus hat zwiefache Kleider. |
| Haitian Creole | Li pa pè fredi pou moun lakay li, paske tout moun gen rad cho pou mete sou yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia tidak khawatir apabila musim dingin tiba, karena baju panas tersedia bagi keluarganya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tiada ia takut akan musim hujan salju, karena segenap isi rumahnya berpakaikan pakaian lapis dua. |
| Italian | Non teme la neve per la sua famiglia, perché tutti i suoi di casa hanno doppia veste. |
| Korean | 그 집 사 람 들 은 다 홍 색 옷 을 입 었 으 므 로 눈 이 와 도 그 는 집 사 람 을 위 하 여 두 려 워 하 지 아 니 하 며 |
| Maori | E kore ia e wehi i te hukarere mo tona whare; no te mea kua kakahuria tona whare katoa ki te ngangana. |
| Norwegian | Hun frykter ikke sneen for sitt hus; for hele hennes hus er klædd i skarlagenfarvet ull. |
| Portuguese | Lâmede. Não tem medo da neve pela sua família; pois todos os da sua casa estão vestidos de escarlate. |
| Rumanian | Nu se teme de zqpadq pentru casa ei, cqci toatq casa ei este kmbrqcatq cu cqrmiziu. |
| Russian | оЕ ВПЙФУС УФХЦЙ ДМС УЕНШЙ УЧПЕК, РПФПНХ ЮФП ЧУС УЕНШС ЕЕ ПДЕФБ Ч ДЧПКОЩЕ ПДЕЦДЩ. |
| Spanish | No teme por su familia a causa de la nieve, porque toda su familia está vestida de ropa doble. |
| Swedish | Av snötiden fruktar hon intet för sitt hus, ty hela hennes hus har kläder av scharlakan. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snow": snowball, snowballed, snowballing, snowballs, snowbank, snowbanks, snowbell, snowbells, snowbelt, snowbelts, snowberries, snowberry, snowbird, snowbirds, snowblower, snowblowers, snowboard, snowboarder, snowboarders, snowboarding, snowboardings, snowboards, snowbound, snowbrush, snowbrushes, snowbush, snowbushes, snowcap, snowcapped, snowcaps, snowdrift, snowdrifts, snowdrop, snowdrops, snowed, snowfall, snowfalls, snowfield, snowfields, snowflake, snowflakes, snowier, snowiest, snowily, snowiness, snowinesses, snowing, snowland, snowlands, snowless, snowlike. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "snow": besnow. (additional references) | |
Words containing "snow": besnowed, besnowing, besnows. (additional references) | |
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"Snow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anow, enow, esnol, isnow, sbow, seow, smow, snco, sno, snoa, snoe, snok, snoox, snoq, snor, snov, snowe, snoz, Snto, snw, sunrow, swon, zno. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snow" (pronounced snō") |
| 2 | -n ō" | know, no, Noh. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nows, owns, sown, wons. | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: nos, now, ons, own, son, sow, won, wos. | |
-2 letters: no, on, os, ow, so, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: downs, enows, gowns, knows, nowts, owsen, shown, snows, snowy, swoon, sworn, swoun, towns, winos, wonks, wonts. | |
+2 letters: aswoon, besnow, browns, clowns, crowns, disown, drowns, endows, frowns, gowans, indows, knowns, noways, nowise, owners, resown, rowans, rowens, snowed, sowans, sowens, sowing, strown, sunbow, swoons, swound, swouns, unsown, wagons, weason, winoes, womans, worsen, wounds, wovens, wrongs. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Cities 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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