'snow'

  • 51snow — I. n 1. cocaine. The white crystalline drug resembles snow and its anaesthetic effect numbs like cold. The slang term dates from the turn of the 20th century. ( Snowbird and snowball were elaborations used in some circles.) A little snow at… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 52snow — noun 1》 atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.     ↘(snows) falls of snow. 2》 a mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 53snow in — verb To prevent from moving (from a building, in a city, etc) by a large snowfall. Syn: snow over, snow up …

    Wiktionary

  • 54Snow — Original name in latin Snow Name in other language Snou, Snov, Snow, Snuv, Снов, Сноў State code BY Continent/City Europe/Minsk longitude 53.2201 latitude 26.401 altitude 187 Population 2600 Date 2012 03 23 …

    Cities with a population over 1000 database

  • 55snow — [OE] Snow is an ancient word, with relatives throughout the Indo European languages. Its ultimate ancestor was Indo European *snigwh or *snoigwho . This also produced Latin nix (source of French neige, Italian neve, and Spanish nieve), obsolete… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 56snow — [OE] Snow is an ancient word, with relatives throughout the Indo European languages. Its ultimate ancestor was Indo European *snigwh or *snoigwho . This also produced Latin nix (source of French neige, Italian neve, and Spanish nieve), obsolete… …

    Word origins

  • 57snow in — {v.} To block up or trap by much snow; keep inside, * /After the storm the farmer and his family were snowed in for three days./ * /The train went off the track and the passengers were snowed in for several days./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 58snow in — {v.} To block up or trap by much snow; keep inside, * /After the storm the farmer and his family were snowed in for three days./ * /The train went off the track and the passengers were snowed in for several days./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 59Snow — I. biographical name C(harles) P(ercy) 1905 1980 Baron Snow English novelist & physicist II. biographical name John William 1939 United States secretary of treasury (2003 ) III. geographical name see maoke …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 60snow — marine snow (organic particles and dead organisms that sink into the deep sea where they form a basis for life without sunlight) …

    Dictionary of ichthyology