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snow

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noun
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.
a.
white blossoms.
b.
the white color of snow.
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6.
Slang. cocaine or heroin.
7.
white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash1 (def. 5).
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verb (used without object)
8.
to send down snow; fall as snow.
9.
to descend like snow.

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verb (used with object)
10.
to let fall as or like snow.
11.
Slang.
a.
to make an overwhelming impression on: The view really snowed them.
b.
to persuade or deceive: She was snowed into believing everything.
Verb phrase
12.
snow under,
a.
to cover with or bury in snow.
b.
to overwhelm with a larger amount of something than can be conveniently dealt with.
c.
to defeat overwhelmingly.
Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English snāw; cognate with Dutch sneeuw, German Schnee, Old Norse snǣr, Gothic snaiws, Latin nix (genitive nivis), Greek níps (accusative nípha), OCS sněgŭ; (v.) Middle English snowen, derivative of the noun; replacing Middle English snewen, Old English snīwan; cognate with Old High German snīwan (German schneien), Middle Low German, Middle Dutch snīen

Related forms
snow·less, adjective
snow·like, adjective
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snow (snəʊ)
 
—n
1.  precipitation from clouds in the form of flakes of ice crystals formed in the upper atmosphereRelated: niveous
2.  a layer of snowflakes on the ground
3.  a fall of such precipitation
4.  anything resembling snow in whiteness, softness, etc
5.  the random pattern of white spots on a television or radar screen, produced by noise in the receiver and occurring when the signal is weak or absent
6.  slang cocaine
7.  See carbon dioxide snow
 
—vb (often with it as subject)
8.  (intr; with it as subject) to be the case that snow is falling
9.  (tr; usually passive, foll by over, under, in, or up) to cover or confine with a heavy fall of snow
10.  to fall or cause to fall as or like snow
11.  slang (US), (Canadian) (tr) See snow job to deceive or overwhelm with elaborate often insincere talk
12.  be snowed under to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
 
Related: niveous
 
[Old English snāw; related to Old Norse snjōr, Gothic snaiws, Old High German snēo, Greek nipha]
 
'snowless
 
—adj
 
'snowlike
 
—adj

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Word Origin & History

snow
c.1300, replacing O.E. sniwan, which would have yielded modern snew (which existed as a parallel form until 17c. and, in Yorkshire, even later), from the root of snow (n.).
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"Also þikke as snow þat snew,
Or al so hail þat stormes blew."
[Robert Mannyng of Brunne, transl. Wace's "Chronicle," c.1330]
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.
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Science Dictionary
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.
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Slang Dictionary

snow definition


  1. n.
    deceitful talk; deception. : All I heard for an hour was snow. Now, what's the truth?
  2. tv.
    to attempt to deceive someone. (See also snowed.) : You can try to snow me if you want, but I'm onto your tricks.
  3. n.
    and snowball; snowflakes; snow stuff. a powdered or crystalline narcotic: morphine, heroin, or cocaine. (Now almost always the latter.) : The price of snow stuff has come down a lot as South America exports more of it.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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