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# snowflake

«snowflake» in Mova's school dictionary: **A single piece of snow made of ice crystals, usually with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a snowflake, snowflakes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A single piece of snow made of ice crystals, usually with six points or sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowflake/#m1)

2) (slang, insulting) A person said to be too easily upset or offended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowflake/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons snowflakes form when water vapour freezes in clouds; they have six-fold symmetry, which links to maths lessons on symmetry. In crafts, children cut paper snowflakes. The slang sense is used as an insult in arguments; it is unkind. Phrases: no two snowflakes are alike, paper snowflake.

### examples

- A snowflake landed on my glove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowflake/#x1)
- Every snowflake has six sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowflake/#x2)
- We cut paper snowflakes for the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowflake/#x3)
- Snowflakes drifted down past the streetlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowflake/#x4)
- Scientists photograph snowflakes under a microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowflake/#x5)
- (slang, unkind) He called his cousin a snowflake for crying at the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowflake/#x6)

### note

Countable. «No two snowflakes are exactly alike» is widely said; it is very likely but cannot be proved for every flake. A snowflake has rotational symmetry of order 6.

### In the corpora

- [Snowflakes have six sides or six arms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/67-clouds-rain-snow-hail/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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