Snowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English snow, snaw, from 古期英語 snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from the root *sneygʷʰ-.

Cognate with Scots snaw (“snow”), West Frisian snie (“snow”), Dutch sneeuw (“snow”), German Schnee (“snow”), Danish sne (“snow”), Norwegian snø (“snow”), Swedish snö (“snow”), Icelandic snjór (“snow”), Latin nix (“snow”), Russian снег (sneg), Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”), Sanskrit स्नेह (snéha, “oil, grease”).

発音

• (英国用法) enPR: snō, IPA^(key): /snəʊ/, [snəʊ̯]
• (米国用法) enPR: snō, IPA^(key): /snoʊ/, [snoʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -əʊ

名詞

snow (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 snows)

1. (uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
   • 1928, A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner:

     The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest.

   • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261:

     TRUE FACT: On June 8, 1995, Glacier National Park was closed because of too much snow.

2. (uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
   • 2008, Neal Asher, Alien Archaeology:

     Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow ...

3. (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.

   We have had several heavy snows this year.

4. (uncountable) A shade of the color white.

   snow:  

5. (uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.

   Synonym: shash

6. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
   • 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:

     Besides, if it wasn't poison, it might be 'snow' or something.

7. marine snow
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 286:

     Lower down, in the 95 percent of the ocean where light does not penetrate, many living things feed on 'marine snow', the steady drizzle of particles of dead matter, whitish in colour, gradually sinking from the euphotic zone above. Other animals then feed on the 'snow' eaters.

同意語

• (cocaine): blow

派生語

動詞

snow (三人称単数 現在形 snows, 現在分詞 snowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 snowed)

1. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.

   It is snowing.

   It started to snow.

2. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
   • 1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King:

     Having passed them in review, I concluded that the best thing would be to try to snow him a little, so I said that I had heard many marvelous reports about the Wariri.

3. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards^[1].

使用する際の注意点

• In older texts and still in dialects, the past tense snew and past participle snown may be encountered.

派生語

参考

参照

語源 2

From Low German Snaue, or Dutch snaauw, from Low German Snau (“a snout, a beak”). See snout.

別の表記

snaw

名詞

snow (複数形 snows)

1. (nautical, historical) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, trysail-mast stepped immediately abaft the main mast.
   • 1763, Sir Stephen Janssen, 4th Baronet, Smuggling Laid Open:

     A Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men, […] Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, besides Swivels.

参考

• brig

アナグラム

• nows, owns, sow'n, sown, wons