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snow

The English word “snow” has 25 meanings listed here.

  1. 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.
  2. An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
  3. A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
  4. An accumulation or spread of snow.
  5. Something resembling snow (etymology 1 sense 1) in appearance or color.
  6. A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
  7. The white color of snow.
  8. Clusters of white flowers.
  9. 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.
  10. Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
  11. White marble.
  12. White linen which has been washed.
  13. Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
  14. Powder cocaine.
  15. An opiate powder, whether heroin or morphine.
  16. Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1 sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
  17. Of a thing: to fall like snow.
  18. To cause (something) to fall like snow.
  19. To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
  20. To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
  21. To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
  22. To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
  23. To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
  24. Done because the alternate outcome is very unlikely to pass.
  25. 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.
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