Snow (2004 film)
WordNet
noun
(1) Street names for cocaine
(2) English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
(3) Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
(4) A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
verb
(5) Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
"He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
(6) Fall as snow
"It was snowing all night"
WiktionaryText
English
Etymology
, from , from . Cognates include Danish sne, Dutch , German Schnee, Norwegian and Russian .
Noun
- The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
- 1928, A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner,
- The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest.
- 1928, A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner,
- A shade of the color white.
- Electrical noise visible on a television screen.
- Cocaine.
- A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
- We have had several heavy snows this year.
Verb
- To have snow fall from the sky.
- It is snowing.
- It started to snow.
- To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
- To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards
See also
- avalanche
- blizzard
- Cascade concrete
- chionodoxa
- firn
- freezing rain
- frost
- graupel
- hail
- igloo
- nieve penitente
- nival
- niveous
- penitentes
- quinzee, quinzhee
- rain
- sastruga, sastrugi, zastruga, zastrugi
- skiing
- sleet
- slush
- snizzle
- yukigassen
- Appendix:Colours