Snow

[snəʊ] or [sno]

解释:

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

(noun.) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.

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

(verb.) fall as snow; 'It was snowing all night'.

录入:洛伦佐--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

(n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

(n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.

(v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

(v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

海伦娜编辑

解释:

n. a vessel once much in use differing only from a brig in having the boom-mainsail traversing on the trysail-mast instead of hooped to the mainmast.

n. the crystalline form into which the excess of vapour in the atmosphere is condensed when the temperature is below freezing: a snowfall: a winter: (her.) white argent.—v.i. and v.t. to fall in snow to cover with snow.—n. Snow′ball a ball made of snow pressed hard together: a shrub bearing a round white flower the guelder-rose: a round pudding of rice with an apple in the centre a mass of boiled rice shaped in a cup: white of egg beaten stiff and placed on the surface of a custard.—v.t. to throw snowballs at.—v.i. to throw snowballs.—ns. Snow′-ber′ry a bushy deciduous shrub bearing white berries; Snow′-bird a North American bird of the Finch family the upper parts lead-colour the lower parts white.—adj. Snow′-blind affected with snow-blindness.—ns. Snow′-blind′ness amblyopia caused by the reflection of light from snow; Snow′-blink a peculiar reflection arising from fields of snow like ice-blink; Snow′-boot a boot made to protect the feet while walking in snow; Snow′-box a theatrical apparatus for representing a snowfall; Snow′-break a melting of snow; Snow′-broth snow and water mixed any very cold liquid; Snow′-bunt′ing Snow′-flick a bird of the Finch family Bunting sub-family abounding in the Arctic regions.—adjs. Snow′-capped -capt covered with snow; Snow′-cold as cold as snow.—ns. Snow′-drift a bank of snow drifted together by the wind; Snow′drop a genus of plants of the natural order Amaryllis with bell-shaped flower arising from a spathe bulbous root two leaves and one single-flowered leafless stem.—ns.pl. Snow′-eyes -gogg′les an Eskimo contrivance to prevent snow-blindness.—n. Snow′fall a quiet fall of snow: the amount falling in a given time.—adj. Snow′-fed begun or increased by melted snow as a stream.—ns. Snow′field a wide range of snow esp. where permanent; Snow′-finch the stone- or mountain-finch; Snow′flake a feathery flake of snow: the snow-bunting: a bulbous-rooted garden flower resembling the snowdrop but larger; Snow′-fly a perlid insect or kind of stone-fly found leaping on the snow; Snow′-ice ice formed from freezing slush.—adv. Snow′ily.—n. Snow′iness.—adjs. Snow′ish resembling snow; Snow′less; Snow′-like; Snow′-limbed with limbs white as snow.—ns. Snow′line the line upon a mountain that marks the limit of perpetual snow; Snow′-owl the great white owl of northern regions; Snow′-plough a machine for clearing roads and railways from snow; Snow′shoe a great flat shoe worn to prevent sinking in the snow.—v.i. to walk or travel on such.—ns. Snow′-slip a mass of snow which slips down a mountain's side; Snow′storm a storm accompanied with falling snow.—adj. Snow′-white as white as snow: very white.—n. Snow′-wreath (Scot.) a snowdrift.—adj. Snow′y abounding or covered with snow: white like snow: pure.

编辑:威拉

娱乐性解释:

To see snow in your dreams, denotes that while you have no real misfortune, there will be the appearance of illness, and unsatisfactory enterprises. To find yourself in a snow storm, denotes sorrow and disappointment in failure to enjoy some long-expected pleasure. There always follows more or less discouragement after this dream. If you eat snow, you will fail to realize ideals. To see dirty snow, foretells that your pride will be humbled, and you will seek reconciliation with some person whom you held in haughty contempt. To see it melt, your fears will turn into joy. To see large, white snowflakes falling while looking through a window, foretells that you will have an angry interview with your sweetheart, and the estrangement will be aggravated by financial depression. To see snow-capped mountains in the distance, warns you that your longings and ambitions will bring no worthy advancement. To see the sun shining through landscapes of snow, foretells that you will conquer adverse fortune and possess yourself of power. For a young woman to dream of sleighing, she will find much opposition to her choice of a lover, and her conduct will cause her much ill-favor. To dream of snowballing, denotes that you will have to struggle with dishonorable issues, and if your judgment is not well grounded, you will suffer defeat. If snowbound or lost, there will be constant waves of ill luck breaking in upon you.

手打:洛葛仙妮

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