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hoarfrost
English
Alternative forms
- hoar frost, hoar-frost
Etymology
From Middle English horfrost, hoorfrost, hore vrost, equivalent to hoar +? frost.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h??(?)f??st/
Noun
hoarfrost (usually uncountable, plural hoarfrosts)
- Dewdrops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface, when the air is cold and moist.
- Coordinate terms: dew, glaze, rime
Related terms
- hoar
Translations
Further reading
- hoarfrost on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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snow
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English sn?w (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóyg??os (“snow”), from the root *sneyg??-.
Cognate with Scots snaw (“snow”), West Frisian snie (“snow”), Dutch sneeuw (“snow”), German Schnee (“snow”), Danish sne (“snow”), Norwegian snø (“snow”), Swedish snö (“snow”), Icelandic snjór (“snow”), Latin nix (“snow”), Russian ???? (sneg), Ancient Greek ???? (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”), Sanskrit ????? (snéha, “oil, grease”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: sn?, IPA(key): /sn??/, [sn???]
- (US) enPR: sn?, IPA(key): /sno?/, [sno??]
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)
- (uncountable) 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,
- (uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
- 2008, Neal Asher, "Alien Archaeology"
- Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO2 snow ...
- 2008, Neal Asher, "Alien Archaeology"
- (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
- We have had several heavy snows this year.
- (uncountable) A shade of the color white.
- (uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
- Synonym: shash
- (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
- 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
- Besides, if it wasn't poison, it might be 'snow' or something.
- 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Synonyms
- (cocaine): blow
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
snow (third-person singular simple present snows, present participle snowing, simple past and past participle snowed)
- (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.
- It is snowing.
- It started to snow.
- (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
- (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.
Usage notes
- In older texts and still in dialects, the past tense snew and past participle snown may be encountered.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
References
- Brunson, Doyle (1978) Super/System: A course in power poker, B&G Publishing Company
Etymology 2
From Low German Snaue, or Dutch snaauw, from Low German Snau (“a snout, a beak”). See snout.
Noun
snow (plural snows)
- (nautical) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
Anagrams
- nows, owns, sow'n, sown, wons
Middle English
Alternative forms
- snaw, snowe, snawe, snow?, sno?, snogh, snou
Etymology
From Old English sn?w, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw.
Pronunciation
- (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA(key): /sn?u?/
- IPA(key): /sn?u?/
Noun
snow (plural snowes)
- snow (frozen water as precipitation, either while falling or once landed)
- snow-white (a snowy white)
- The temperature where snow appears.
- A blanket of snow; a snowing.
Derived terms
- snewen
- snow whit
- snowen
- snowisshe
- snowy
Descendants
- English: snow
- Scots: snaw
- Yola: sneow, sneew, snowe
References
- “snou, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?no/, [ez?no]
- IPA(key): /es?nou/, [ez?nou?]
Noun
snow m (uncountable)
- snowboarding
Derived terms
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