snow

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ heavy, thick

▪ fine, light

▪

The plants were covered in fine snow.

▪ deep

▪ wet

▪ compacted, crisp, frozen, hard, icy, packed

▪

The crisp snow crunched as we walked through it.

▪

The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.

▪ powder, powdery, slushy, soft

▪ drifting, driving, falling, swirling

▪

They struggled on through the driving snow.

▪ melted, melting

▪ fresh, freshly fallen, new, newly fallen

▪ first

▪

the first snow of winter

▪ spring, winter

▪ artificial, fake

▪

They had to use artificial snow at the Winter Olympics.

▪ dirty

… OF SNOW

▪ flake

▪ fall (esp. BrE), flurry

▪ patch

▪ dusting

▪

There was a light dusting of snow on the ground.

▪ blanket, carpet, layer

▪ pile

▪

There were great big piles of snow on the road outside.

▪ foot, inch

▪

The porch is currently covered in three feet of snow.

▪

Three inches of snow had fallen.

▪ handful

▪

He grabbed a handful of snow and threw it at Kate.

VERB + SNOW

▪ be covered in

▪

The car was completely covered in snow.

▪ blow (AmE), clear (esp. BrE), plough/plow (esp. AmE), shovel (esp. AmE), sweep

▪

She cleared the snow from the path.

▪ melt

▪

The sun came out and melted all the snow.

▪ expect

▪

We're expecting snow over the next few days.

▪ get, have

▪

Southern Europe rarely gets snow.

▪ struggle through, trudge through, walk through

▪

I trudged through the snow and ice to the edge of town.

SNOW + VERB

▪ cover sth, lie, pile, pile up, settle

▪

Snow covered everything from horizon to horizon.

▪

Snow had piled up against the walls of the house.

▪

It was too warm for the snow to settle.

▪ come down, drift, drive, fall, swirl

▪

The heaviest snow is coming down in Maine.

▪ melt, thaw

SNOW + NOUN

▪ flurry, shower, storm (usually snowstorm)

▪ conditions

▪

The snow conditions were excellent.

▪ fall (usually snowfall)

▪

a heavy snowfall

▪

a light snowfall

▪

an area of low snowfall

▪ cover

▪

The glacier provides skiers with year-round snow cover.

▪ line (usually snowline)

▪

animals that live above the snowline

▪ bank, drift (usually snowdrift)

▪

He got his car stuck in a snowdrift.

▪ field (usually snowfield)

▪ slide (usually snowslide) (AmE) (avalanche in BrE)

▪ day (AmE)

▪

Growing up in New York, I had my share of snow days.

▪ blower (usually snowblower), plough/plow (usually snowplough/snowplow), shovel

▪ cannon (BrE), gun

▪ blindness

▪ chains, tyre/tire

▪ shoe (usually snowshoe)

▪ globe

▪

She bought a plastic snow globe with the Eiffel Tower inside.

PREPOSITION

▪ across the snow

▪

We walked across the snow to the road.

▪ in snow, into snow

▪

The children are playing in the snow.

▪ through snow

▪

We struggled through the deep snow back to the chalet.

▪ under snow

▪

The steps were buried under the snow.

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verb

ADVERB

▪ hard, heavily

▪

It had been snowing heavily all night.

▪ lightly

▪ outside

▪

It looked to be snowing outside.

▪ overnight

▪

We woke up to find that it had snowed overnight.

VERB + SNOW

▪ begin to, start to

PHRASES

▪ start snowing, stop snowing

▪

It started snowing just as we were setting out.