snow
US: /ˈsnoʊ/
UK: /snˈəʊ/
UK: /snˈəʊ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
snow /snou/
- danh từ
- (hàng hải), (sử học) thuyền xnau (thuyền buồm nhỏ)
- tuyết
- (số nhiều) đống tuyết rơi; lượng tuyết rơi
- vật trắng như tuyết; (thơ) tóc bạc
- (từ lóng) chất côcain
- nội động từ
- tuyết rơi
- it snow s: tuyết rơi
- rắc xuống như tuyết, rơi xuống như tuyết
- tuyết rơi
- ngoại động từ
- làm cho bạc như tuyết
- the years have snowed his hair: năm tháng đã làm cho tóc ông ta bạc trắng như tuyết
- làm nghẽn lại vì tuyết
- to be snowed up (in): nghẽn lại vì tuyết (đường sá...)
- to snow under
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) phủ tuyết kín (đen & bóng)
- dạng bị động bị thua phiếu rất xa (người ứng cử)
- làm cho bạc như tuyết
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [U] small soft white pieces, (called FLAKES), of frozen water that fall from the sky in cold weather; this substance when it is lying on the ground: Snow was falling heavily. + We had snow in May this year. + The snow was beginning to melt. + Children were playing in the snow. + 20 cm of snow was / were expected today. + The snow didn't settle (= stay on the ground). + Her skin was as white as snow.
2 (snows) [pl.] (literary) an amount of snow that falls in one particular place or at one particular time: the first snows of winter + the snows of Everest
Idioms: as clean, pure, etc. as the driven snow extremely clean, pure, etc.
+ verb
1 [V] when it snows, snow falls from the sky: It's been snowing heavily all day. + It snowed for three days without stopping.
2 [VN] (AmE, informal) to impress sb a lot by the things you say, especially if these are not true or not sincere: He really snowed me with all his talk of buying a Porsche.
Idioms: be snowed in / up to be unable to leave a place because of heavy snow: We were snowed in for two days.
be snowed under (with sth) to have more things, especially work, than you feel able to deal with: I'd love to come but I'm completely snowed under at the moment.
be snowed up (especially of a road) to be blocked with snow
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
heavy, thick | fine, light
The plants were covered in fine snow.
| deep | damp, wet | compacted, crisp, frozen, hard, packed
The crisp snow crunched as we walked through it. The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.
| powder/powdery, soft | drifting, driving, falling, swirling
They struggled on through the driving snow.
| melted, melting | fresh, new, newly fallen | first
the first snow of winter
| spring, winter | artificial
They had to use artificial snow at the Winter Olympics.
| dirty
QUANT.
flake | fall, flurry | patch | blanket, carpet | inch
Three inches of snow fell had fallen.
VERB + SNOW
be covered in
The car was completely covered in snow.
| clear, shovel, sweep
She cleared the snow from the path.
SNOW + VERB
cover sth, lie, pile (up), settle
Snow covered everything from horizon to horizon. Snow had piled up against the walls of the cottage. It was too warm for the snow to settle.
| drift, drive, fall, swirl | melt, thaw
SNOW + NOUN
conditions, flurry, storm
(also
snowstorm
)
| plough
(also
snowplough
)
| blindness
PREP.
across ~
They travelled across the snow in a sleigh.
| in/into ~
The children are playing in the snow.
| through ~
We struggled through the deep snow back to the chalet.
| under ~
The steps were buried under the snow.
Concise English dictionary
snows|snowed|snowingsnəʊ
noun
+precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
+a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
+English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
+street names for cocaine
verb
+fall as snow
+conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
