English words for 'A snow globe.'
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noun
prefix
adj
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- marked by the presence of snow
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
noun
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A white pigment.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
verb
noun
- a crystal of snow
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a person with an unusual or odd personality
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
- (UK) Dogfish.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
verb
- cover with flakes or as if with flakes
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
- form into flakes
- To lay out on a flake for drying.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
- (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
- (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
noun
- a crystal of snow
- white Arctic bunting
- The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.
- (ophthalmology) A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
- A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A Caucasian person.
- Something that is unique in every presentation.
- (historical) Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
- Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.
verb
noun
- A snowy sheathbill.
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
- (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
- A fit of temper; a tantrum.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
adj
noun
noun
- The white color of snow.
- (figurative) Sea foam; sea spray.
- (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
- (chemistry) Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
- (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
- (figurative) Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
- (figurative) 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.
- (figurative, slang) Money, especially silver coins.
- (figurative, poetic) White marble.
- (uncountable, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (figurative) Clusters of white flowers.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (countable, cooking) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
- (marine biology) Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”).
- (slang, less frequently) An opiate powder, whether heroin or morphine.
- (nautical, historical) 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.
- (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.
- precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
- street names for cocaine
- a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
adj
verb
- To cause (something) to fall like snow.
- To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
- (originally US, slang) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
- (also figurative) Of a thing: to fall like snow.
- (poker) To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
- (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1 sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
- To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
- (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
- conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
- fall as snow
noun
verb
noun
phrase
noun
- Ellipsis of snowplough.
- Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- (agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
- Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
verb
- To move with force.
- (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
- (transitive, colloquial) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
- (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- (intransitive) To use a plough.
- (transitive, vulgar) To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
- (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
noun
noun
- a figure of a person made of packed snow
- (rare) An attractive but heartless man.
- A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
- (baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
noun
- (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
- A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
- A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
- (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
- (by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- (by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
verb
noun
noun
- a crystal of snow
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a person with an unusual or odd personality
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
- (UK) Dogfish.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
verb
- cover with flakes or as if with flakes
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
- form into flakes
- To lay out on a flake for drying.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
- (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
- (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
noun
- a crystal of snow
- white Arctic bunting
- The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.
- (ophthalmology) A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
- A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A Caucasian person.
- Something that is unique in every presentation.
- (historical) Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
- Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.
verb
noun
- A snowy sheathbill.
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
- (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
- A fit of temper; a tantrum.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
noun
noun
- The white color of snow.
- (figurative) Sea foam; sea spray.
- (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
- (chemistry) Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
- (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1 sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
- (figurative) Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
- (figurative) 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.
- (figurative, slang) Money, especially silver coins.
- (figurative, poetic) White marble.
- (uncountable, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (figurative) Clusters of white flowers.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (countable, cooking) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
- (marine biology) Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”).
- (slang, less frequently) An opiate powder, whether heroin or morphine.
- (nautical, historical) 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.
- (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.
- precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
- street names for cocaine
- a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
adj
verb
- To cause (something) to fall like snow.
- To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
- (originally US, slang) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
- (also figurative) Of a thing: to fall like snow.
- (poker) To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
- (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1 sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
- To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
- (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
- conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
- fall as snow
noun
verb
noun
noun
- Ellipsis of snowplough.
- Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- (agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
- Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
verb
- To move with force.
- (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
- (transitive, colloquial) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
- (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- (intransitive) To use a plough.
- (transitive, vulgar) To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
- (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
noun
noun
- a figure of a person made of packed snow
- (rare) An attractive but heartless man.
- A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
- (baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
noun
- (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
- A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
- A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
- (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
- (by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- (by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
verb
adj
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- marked by the presence of snow
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
noun
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A white pigment.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water