snow
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/snəʊ̯/]
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1. snow (noun) — sense 1
Definition: The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
Example: Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.
2. snow (noun) — sense 2
Definition: The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.: An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
Example: We have had several heavy snows this year.
3. snow (noun) — sense 3
Definition: The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.: A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
Example: They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirty snows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head; […]
4. snow (verb) — sense 4
Definition: Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
Example: It is snowing. It started to snow.
5. snow (verb) — sense 5
Definition: Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.: Of a thing: to fall like snow.
Example: Time on this Head has ſnovv’d, yet ſtill ’tis borne / Aloft; nor thinks but on another’s Grave.
6. snow (verb) — sense 6
Definition: To cause (something) to fall like snow.
Example: [A]t the ſetting out of a verie ſtatelie tragedie named Dido, wherein the quéenes banket (with Eneas narration of the deſtruction of Troie) was liuelie deſcribed in a marchpaine patterne, there was alſo a goodlie ſight of hunters with full crie of a kennell of hounds, Mercurie and Iris deſcending and aſcending from and to an high place, the tempeſt wherein it hailed ſmall confects, rained roſewater, and ſnew an artificiall kind of ſnow, all ſtrange, maruellous, ⁊ [and] abundant.
7. snow (adj) — sense 7
Definition: Done because the alternate outcome is very unlikely to pass.
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