| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface. |
| 3. | the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall. |
| 4. | something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like: the snow of fresh linen. |
| 5. | Literary.
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| 6. | Slang. cocaine or heroin. |
| 7. | white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash 1 (def. 5). |
| 8. | to send down snow; fall as snow. |
| 9. | to descend like snow. |
| 10. | to let fall as or like snow. |
| 11. | Slang.
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| 12. | snow under,
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"Also þikke as snow þat snew,The figurative sense of "overwhelm" is 1880, Amer.Eng., in phrase to snow (someone) under. Snow job "strong, persistent persuasion in a dubious cause" is World War II armed forces slang, probably from the same metaphoric image.
Or al so hail þat stormes blew."
[Robert Mannyng of Brunne, transl. Wace's "Chronicle," c.1330]
| snow (snō) Pronunciation Key
Precipitation that falls to earth in the form of ice crystals that have complex branched hexagonal patterns. Snow usually falls from stratus and stratocumulus clouds, but it can also fall from cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. |