What's the difference between snow and snowstorm?

Snow


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.
  • (n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
  • (v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
  • (v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (2) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
  • (3) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (4) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
  • (5) The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
  • (6) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
  • (7) Faster than ever we could deal with them these shattered men were coming in, and yet across the few acres of snow before me the busy guns were making more.
  • (8) The only people we saw was a small party on snow shoes.
  • (9) As the level of disruption across the country continued to escalate, the government ordered an urgent audit of the country's snow readiness .
  • (10) Daily subcutaneous injection of L-dopa for 4 weeks into 2-year-old low egg production hens resulted in a lightening of feather color to snow white and increased oviduct and ovary weights and the development of well developed follicles.
  • (11) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
  • (12) As Florian Grimm, the local head of snow management, told a colleague recently: “Today nobody would accept stones any more, or spots of grass in spring.
  • (13) It was minus five degrees and snowing on the day we fitted him.
  • (14) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest View over the snow fields and lake.
  • (16) He added the rainfall could turn to snow in parts of Scotland.
  • (17) The original 1858 edition of John Snow's On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics, from which came the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology reprints in 1971 and 1989, was donated to the Wood Library-Museum by Ralph Waters of Madison, Wisconsin, in 1967.
  • (18) Then they trudged through heavy, deep snow and climbed up to another ridge.
  • (19) The early appearance of the stable snow cover facilitates a rapid drop in the number of NFRS cases as early as in October, while prolonged autumn with rains, snow, periods of thaw and ice-covered ground leads to a rise in NFRS morbidity occurring in autumn and winter and ending only in March.
  • (20) There's even a little used term for it – rasputitsa – a biannual phenomenon that appears in spring because of melting snow and in the autumn because of rain.

Snowstorm


Definition:

  • (n.) A storm with falling snow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When a snowstorm not only paralyzes a community but also isolates its hospital or hospitals, contingency plans and procedures ensure the effective administration and operation of a health care facility during the emergency.
  • (2) So far so good,” said Baker, who was managing his first snowstorm since being sworn in earlier this month.
  • (3) deaths were increased for 8 days after a snowstorm, suggesting that the effect was related to activities such as snow shovelling rather than the storm itself.
  • (4) Record snowstorms can occur during warm years, too, one study found : while the researchers documented an increase in extreme regional snowstorms over five decades, they noted that about a third of those storms happened during years that were warmer than average.
  • (5) The Costa Ricans lost 1-0 in a match that was played in a snowstorm in Colorado .
  • (6) They inhibit adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-induced platelet aggregation, and the release of platelet factor 3 by kaolin, and VK 774 also reduces platelet adhesiveness and inhibits platelet aggregation (;snowstorm' effect) in the Chandler tube system.
  • (7) "It would have been nice to have talked about how to handle a snowstorm in an abstract exercise, but we didn't get to do that, we got the real thing."
  • (8) They held their televised press conference outside the White House in a snowstorm, a nature-made bathetic fallacy.)
  • (9) Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.
  • (10) Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem, described the snowstorm as a "tsunami", for which the city council was unprepared.
  • (11) A snowstorm that hit along the Utah-Arizona border left hundreds of travelers stranded on Interstate 15 overnight into Sunday.
  • (12) The USA moved into second place after beating Costa Rica 1-0 in a snowstorm last week .
  • (13) The main reason was said to be that climbers who started their ascent late in the day were caught in a snowstorm in the afternoon and lost their way.
  • (14) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
  • (15) This winter has been harsh, with several major snowstorms, and each morning I emerge from my own little piece of hell to continue distributions.
  • (16) The roof leaks, and the recent snowstorm has flooded his crowded space, destroying electrical equipment.
  • (17) Inspired by what she said were Hamid’s “very laudable ideals”, Abdul drove through snowstorms to get to Reno from Silicon Valley.
  • (18) Is that dangerous – to be inebriated in a snowstorm on a very cold night on the top of a very cold mountain without a soul around?
  • (19) In his beautiful book The Moth Snowstorm , Michael McCarthy suggests that a capacity to love the natural world, rather than merely to exist within it, might be a uniquely human trait.
  • (20) A major snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow in cities across the north-east US early Friday morning, causing thousands of flight cancellations, school closures and paralysing road travel.

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