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snowing




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snowing
     1. n. A fall of snow.
snow
     1. n. The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
     2. n. Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
     3. n. A shade of the color white.
           (color panel, F9F5E6)
     4. n. The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
     5. n. (slang) Cocaine.
     6. n. A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
           We have had several heavy snows this year.
     7. v. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.
           It is snowing.
           It started to snow.
     8. v. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
     9. v. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.
     10. n. (nautical) 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.
     11. n. topics, en, Atmospheric phenomena, Colors, Whites, Winter

Example Sentences

It's snowing pretty hard. Do we have any chains? If so, I think we should put them on. 
I don't know when spring will come and when the flowers will bloom. It was still snowing this morning. 
Snowing at this time of the year is unusual. 
It will soon stop snowing, and then the weather will improve. 



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