snow

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      Snow-covered road.

      Etymology

      From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”). 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 снег (sneg), Armenian ձյուն (dzyun), Greek χιόνι (chioni), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”). Also, from the same Indo-European root *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”) comes English snew.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      snow (countable and uncountable; plural snows)

      1. (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.
      2. (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 CO2snow ...
      3. (uncountable) A shade of the color white.
        snow colour:    
      4. (uncountable) The area of frequency on a television which has no programmes broadcast in analogue sets, the image is created by the Electrical noise.
      5. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
      6. (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
        We have had several heavy snows this year.

      Derived terms

      terms derived from snow

      Translations

      precipitation
      colour
      TV noise
      cocaine
      collective precipitation
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      Verb

      snow (third-person singular simple present snows, present participle snowing, simple past snowed or snew, past participle snowed or snown)

      1. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.
        It is snowing.
        It started to snow.
      2. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
      3. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.

      Derived terms

      Translations

      have snow fall from the sky
      hoodwink by presenting confusing information

      References

      • 1978, Brunson, Doyle, Super/System: A course in power poker, B&G Publishing Company:

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