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# snow

«snow» in Mova's school dictionary: **Soft white flakes of frozen water that fall from clouds…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (snow); verb (snow, snows, snowed, snowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Soft white flakes of frozen water that fall from clouds when it is very cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#m1)

2) A layer of fallen snow on the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#m2)

3) As a verb, to fall as snow: "It's snowing!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, snow forms when water vapour freezes in cold clouds; every snowflake has six sides; snow melts at 0 °C into water. In safety: wear warm clothes; snow and ice are slippery; don't walk on frozen ponds. In Canada and the north of the USA, snow days close schools. Phrases: snowman, snowball, snowflake, snow day, snowed in, snowed under (very busy).

### examples

- It snowed all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x1)
- We built a snowman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x2)
- Snow is frozen water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x3)
- Every snowflake has six sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x4)
- School was closed for a snow day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x5)
- Snow melts when it gets warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x6)
- Walk carefully on the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x7)
- I'm snowed under with homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x8)
- There fell a shower of snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/#x9)

### note

"Snow" is uncountable: "some snow", "a lot of snow"; one piece is "a snowflake". Snow rarely falls in most of Australia, but it snows in its mountains and in New Zealand.

### In the corpora

- [An amber weather warning means bad weather is likely and people should be ready; it does not promise a snow day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/20/)
- [Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/16/)
- [In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/14/)
- [Ringed seals dig snow caves on the ice to hide their pups and keep breathing holes open by scratching the ice with strong claws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/11/)
- [Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «snow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.