Snow

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

   “Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.”

2. isim An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.

   “We have had several heavy snows this year.”

3. isim A period of time when snow falls; a winter.

   “They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirty snows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head; […]”

4. isim An accumulation or spread of snow.

   “VVhen VVinter ſhuts the Seas, and fleecy Snovvs / Make Houſes vvhite, ſhe to the Merchant goes: / Rich Cryſtals of the Rock She takes up there, / Huge Agat Vaſes, and old China VVare: […]”

5. isim A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.

   “apple snow    lemon snow”

6. isim The white color of snow.

   “The daughters of the land were beautiful, with blue eyes and fair hair, and bosoms of snow, […]”

7. isim Clusters of white flowers.

   “A scent of pine-wood from a tent-like pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite; […]”

8. isim The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference.

   “Near-synonym: static”

9. isim Sea foam; sea spray.
10. isim Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.

    “Indeed, to the laſt days of her life, my Lady Viſcounteſs had the comfort of fancying herſelf beautiful, and perſiſted in blooming up to the very midſt of winter, painting roſes on her cheeks long after their natural ſeaſon, and attiring herſelf like ſummer though her head was covered with ſnow.”

11. isim White marble.

    “Ere now marmoreal floods had spread their couch / Of perdurable snow, or granite wrought / Its skyward impulse from earth's hearth of fire / Up to insanest heights.”

12. isim Money, especially silver coins.
13. isim White linen which has been washed.
14. isim Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.

    “Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow towards the gates of the Arena.”

15. isim Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”).

    “Lower down, in the 95 per cent of the ocean where light does not penetrate, many living things feed on ‘marine snow’, the steady drizzle of particles of dead matter, whitish in colour, gradually sinking from the euphotic zone above. Other animals then feed on the ‘snow’ eaters.”

16. isim Powder cocaine.

    “Aren’t I telling you that’s why I didn’t taste it? […] Besides, if it wasn’t poison, it might be ‘snow’ or something.”

17. isim An opiate powder, whether heroin or morphine.
18. fiil Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

    “It is snowing.    It started to snow.”

19. fiil Of a thing: to fall like snow.

    “Time on this Head has ſnovv’d, yet ſtill ’tis borne / Aloft; nor thinks but on another’s Grave.”

20. fiil To cause (something) to fall like snow.

    “Ride ten thouſand daies and nights, / Till age ſnovv vvhite haires on thee, […]”

21. fiil To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.

    “Even the Horſe wee ride / Vnſhod, would founder, who takes greateſt pride, / When the moſt curb'd, and playing with the bit, / Hee ſnowes the ground [with froth from his mouth], and doth the Spurre forgit.”

22. fiil To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.

    “Ah, courteous England, thy kinde arms I ſee / VVide-stretched out to ſaue and vvelcom me. / Thou (tender Mother) vvilt not ſuffer Age / To ſnovve my locks in Forrein Pilgrimage: […]”

23. fiil To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.

    “[…] I concluded that the best thing would be to try to snow him a little, so I said that I had heard many marvelous reports about the Wariri. As I couldn't think of any details just then, I was just as glad that he didn't ask me to be specific.”

24. fiil To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
25. fiil To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.

    “She looked snowed, weaved around funny, didn't seem to know much what was going on.”

26. sıfat Done because the alternate outcome is very unlikely to pass.
27. isim A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.

    “An ESTIMATE made of the Annual Expence of a Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men (Officers included) Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, beſides Swivels.”

28. özel isim A surname.