snow

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I made a hockey arena in the snow.

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Quick take

precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

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The clearest senses and uses of snow gathered in one view.

noun

precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

noun

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

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for snow.

noun

precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

noun

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

noun

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

noun

street names for cocaine

verb

fall as snow; "It was snowing all night"

verb

conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"

Example sentences

I made a hockey arena in the snow.

I keep a snowmobile suit in my truck during the winter.

What sort of cover art should we use for the book?How about a snow-capped mountain peak?

The snow starts to pile up, and a gust of wind pushes you right off the road and into an irrigation ditch.

My wife grew up in Taiwan, and didn't see snow for the first time until she was twenty-one years old.

I called out on my CB for the local off-roading enthusiasts, and 15 minutes later a snowmobile arrived with a winch.

It treated us programmers as special snow flakes, and advertised us the romantic super exciting world of startups.

[Edit: Generic personal finance advice for everyone: Unless your children will starve in the snow otherwise, it is never a good time to cash out your retirement account.

There's a manmade line going diagonally up/left across the center mountain, up the rock face, and then continues up/left to the little snow valley where Everest hits Lhotse along the horizon line.

"The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black.

* No clear route identification or plan* The didn't dig a snow pit to assess avalanche conditions on the slope they were about to hit - my personal number 1* Multiple people dropped in at once - the biggest no-no of all!

I could only have loved it more if it had been snowing, but I know I'm partial with snow, so I wanted to test myself and see if even without snow I'd enjoy my vacations in the very same place, to remove a bit of exoticism.