SNOW

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Traducere în limba română

snow I. substantiv

1. zăpadă, nea, omăt;

there has been a fall of snow a căzut zăpadă, a nins.

2. (tehn.) artificial snow zăpadă artificială;

carbonic acid snow zăpadă carbonică.

3. (sl.) cocaină.

snow II. verb A. intranzitiv

a ninge;

it is snowing ninge.

snow II. verb B. tranzitiv

to be snowed in / up / over a) a fi înzăpezit, a fi prins / blocat / reţinut de zăpadă; b) a fi acoperit cu zăpadă, a fi troienit.

There had been snow, some hours before; and it lay, not deep, but hard-frozen on the ground.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"One drift took me up to the waist; happily the snow is quite soft yet."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

After many sleeps of travel, a long, long time, Yamikan comes to a land where there is no snow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wife was a boy, who was as red as blood and as white as snow.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I wish it wasn't so cold. There are signs of snow coming; and if it falls heavy it will stop us.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Every body must have seen the snow coming on.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

When I returned, as often as it was necessary, I cleared their path from the snow and performed those offices that I had seen done by Felix.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And always they pitched camp after dark, eating their bit of fish, and crawling to sleep into the snow.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

The dogs had lain down in the snow, and he walked past them to join his partner in the sled.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Also called old snow.

(Firn, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)