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SNOW

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Street names for cocaine

Synonyms:

blow; C; coke; nose candy; snow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("snow" is a kind of...):

cocain; cocaine (a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)

Synonyms:

Baron Snow of Leicester; C. P. Snow; Charles Percy Snow; Snow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

Synonyms:

snow; snowfall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("snow" is a kind of...):

downfall; precipitation (the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist))

Meronyms (parts of "snow"):

flake; snowflake (a crystal of snow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "snow"):

flurry; snow flurry (a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that))

whiteout (an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds)

Derivation:

snow (fall as snow)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("snow" is a kind of...):

layer (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another)

Meronyms (substance of "snow"):

flake; snowflake (a crystal of snow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "snow"):

corn snow (granular snow formed by alternate thawing and freezing)

crud (heavy wet snow that is unsuitable for skiing)

Holonyms ("snow" is a substance of...):

snowball (snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully))

Derivation:

snow (fall as snow)

snowy (covered with snow)

snowy (marked by the presence of snow)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

Example:

He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well

Synonyms:

bamboozle; hoodwink; lead by the nose; play false; pull the wool over someone's eyes; snow

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "snow" is one way to...):

betray; deceive; lead astray (cause someone to believe an untruth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fall as snow

Example:

It was snowing all night

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "snow" is one way to...):

come down; fall; precipitate (fall from clouds)

Sentence frame:

It is ----ing

Sentence example:

It was snowing all day long

Derivation:

snow (precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals)

snow (a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground)

Credits

 Context examples: 

His footmarks had pressed right through the snow, so long had he stood there.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is not in the nature of things that when winter comes there shall be no snow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I was told that this road is in summertime excellent, but that it had not yet been put in order after the winter snows.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For example, when less energy reaches the earth, temperature decreases and the area covered by snow increases.

(Climatic feedback mechanisms, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

I admired your resolution very much, sir, said he, in venturing out in such weather, for of course you saw there would be snow very soon.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The snows descended on my head, and I saw the print of his huge step on the white plain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They were now a miserable trio, confined within doors by a series of rain and snow, with nothing to do and no variety to hope for.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But her mind was pure as snow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Snow and ice appear white and forests are green.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

Biologist Scott Mills of the University of Montana, who began studying snowshoe hares in the 1990s, says finding them has become much easier as average winter snow duration has decreased over time.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)