Neve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Nephew.

   “Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve, and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.”

2. isim A male cousin.

   “Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve" ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.”

3. isim A grandson.
4. isim A spendthrift.
5. isim The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.

   “Then we started up a rise, and to our annoyance found ourselves amongst crevasses once more—very hard, smooth névé between high ridges at the edge of crevasses, and therefore very difficult to get foothold to pull the sledges.”

6. isim Young, granular snow on a glacier, which has been partially melted and refrozen since deposition, but has not yet turned into firn by surviving a full season of ablation.

   “The rate of snow-névé accumulation may change many times during the glacier lifetime due to changes in climatic conditions or other factors. Calculations show that the glacier responds fairly quickly to such changes.”

7. özel isim A surname from Middle English.