What's the difference between snowdrift and snowflake?

Snowdrift


Definition:

  • (n.) A bank of drifted snow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Torrance begins to deteriorate mentally - having some frightening visions of his own, all leading him to the notion of killing his family - the sprawling hotel, buried under huge snowdrifts, begins to feel more and more claustrophobic.
  • (2) Landlady Tracy Daly said that everyone had kept warm and cheerful working in shifts to dig a way through snowdrifts piled up against the doors, 1,732ft above sea level.
  • (3) 1.02pm GMT Here are some deep snowdrifts in Indiana.
  • (4) You can’t escape a snowdrift just by racing the engine,” says Ucer.
  • (5) Ultrasonic investigation in antigen incompatibility of maternal and fetal blood yields the snowdrift picture, in maternal hypertension ultrasonic placental appearance is cellular, microscopically plasma-saturated, affected by fibrinoid necrosis, hyalinosis, and hypertrophic in arterial muscular coat.
  • (6) Rain, further high winds and snowdrifts reaching 2 metres (7ft) in places have impeded the work.
  • (7) A state of emergency was declared in the capital, Sarajevo, which has been under more than a metre of snow since Friday, with schools closed, trams stuck in snowdrifts and people trapped in cars.

Snowflake


Definition:

  • (n.) A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.
  • (n.) See Snowbird, 1.
  • (n.) A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (L. vernum, aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By late afternoon we have climbed to over 2,500 metres and, with occasional snowflakes blowing around our heads, we pitch our tents by a small lake.
  • (2) The sections produced with dull knives had a snowflake appearance in the light microscope.
  • (3) LastPass generates new passwords for them, which will then autofill through a snowflake button on the browser.
  • (4) It’s a beautiful game though, as you soar over London, San Francisco, Japan, China and Australia collecting snowflakes.
  • (5) From American Pearl's wedding rings ("thousands of possibilities, billions of permutations: every piece is like a snowflake") to MIT-born startup Matter.io's design-your-own-bling service to the work of individual designers like Maria Jennifer Carew there is plenty happening on this front.
  • (6) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
  • (7) Corneal endothelial snowflake dystrophy was diagnosed in a child of 12 years as part of an inherited syndrome associated with various oculocutaneous pigmentation disturbances and malabsorption.
  • (8) Not a snowflake's chance in hell of succeeding with that sort of roll call.
  • (9) When used as probes in Southern blots of total DNA from wild-type strains, multicent-2 (a multiple mutant strain), and snowflake mutants, the P59Nc cDNAs revealed comparable patterns of hybridizing bands for all of the restriction enzymes tested.
  • (10) Snowflake dystrophy was associated with two kinds of intraocular pigment changes: the prevalence rate of green irides was 21.7% and the prevalence rate of large star-shaped chromatophore-like cells attached to the anterior lens capsule, 23.9%.
  • (11) The body should be celebrated, not shamed.” The day I got naked for Spencer Tunick In case you missed it ... the Arizona town where residents find refuge from the world In Snowflake, you can escape fragrances, electricity, Wi-Fi and other facets of modern life.
  • (12) But, mummy, I want to be the snowflake!” seems to be their hidden mantra.
  • (13) Snowflake dystrophy was also associated with malabsorption: the prevalence rate of milk intolerance was 37.6%, lactose malabsorption (hypolactasia) 39.0%, and vitamin A or fat malabsorption 23.3%.
  • (14) I am told that all snowflakes are unique, and so they may be under a microscope, but frankly, they all look the same to me.
  • (15) As much as I’d like to think my career is all thanks to my special snowflake qualities, it’s difficult, when looking around at the rest of my heavily privately-educated profession, to draw any conclusion other than that my schooling might have helped me.
  • (16) The Snowflake Tendency has even begun to infect political discourse in Scotland .
  • (17) But in her submission, she says: “I’ve become extremely frustrated at being labelled a remoaner, snowflake, metropolitan elite.” Rachel Green, who features holding an eagle, hopes there will be a second referendum.
  • (18) The associations between snowflake dystrophy, milk intolerance and hypolactasia were statistically significant.
  • (19) Apparently it was common, around Snowflake, for people to kill themselves.
  • (20) Like Susie, most of the residents in Snowflake have what they call “environmental illness”, a controversial diagnosis that attributes otherwise unexplained symptoms to pollution.

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