What's the difference between snowy and white?

Snowy


Definition:

  • (a.) White like snow.
  • (a.) Abounding with snow; covered with snow.
  • (a.) Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She concluded her speech with a message for the audience - perhaps all of us - perhaps some of us - perhaps one person in particular, a snowy haired gent from Queensland.
  • (2) Some turned it into a game, jumping off roofs and out of windows into snowy piles – causing the mayor, Marty Walsh, to tell them to “stop this nonsense”.
  • (3) May has, so far, been exceptionally snowy in this region with more than a metre (about 41in) of accumulation reported.
  • (4) Colbeck said the listed area will still retain “high value tall forests and giant trees in the Weld-Snowy Range, Huon Picton, the Great Western Tiers and the Styx-Tyenna regions".
  • (5) Visceral lymphomatosis was observed in a snowy owl.
  • (6) Of the accidents involving women aged over 50 years, 61% occurred in icy or snowy conditions.
  • (7) In horrible, snowy weather, these owners pick up the steaming piles of poop from city streets so that passers by don’t kick frozen poopsicles.
  • (8) This week, the Serbian authorities made additional temporary space available to get people off the snowy streets and into shelters.
  • (9) Dry tree holes, where C. hinmani, C. elemae, C. paraensis, C. nanus, C. snowi and C. footei occurred, had pH values ranging from 8.13 to 9.08.
  • (10) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (11) Marked differences in levles of viremia were not observed among Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Egrets, or Snowy Egrets.
  • (12) A large man with a rumpled shirt, snowy beard and hair pulled into a ponytail, the commissioner resembles a hippy Santa Claus but is a tough, shrewd operator.
  • (13) Death that is associated with skiing in the Snowy Mountains is a rare event.
  • (14) One protester among the crowd standing on a snowy bank opposite the court was Vladimir Yurovsky, 54, the manager of a small Moscow-based financial services company.
  • (15) Wrap up warm and channel your inner Jules Verne as you soar at bird-of-prey height above the craggy peaks, snowy meadows and white forests around Alta Pusteria.
  • (16) To the right, two prosecutors in blue uniforms sit at a desk in front of four windows looking on to a brick building with a snowy parapet and a tree petrified in ice.
  • (17) After all, humans didn’t have the natural protection his snowy “fur” provided.
  • (18) Brain ChE activity of nestling snowy egrets (Egretta thula) and black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) collected in one colony each from Rhode Island, Texas and California (USA) also increased significantly with age and did not differ among individuals from different nests or colonies.
  • (19) In the recent snowy weather people at risk got phone calls to check they were safe, if they wanted some shopping done, or perhaps a friendly face at the door making sure they were OK. A community support worker will soon be based in A&E to bring the same level of knowledge of local services and be able to help someone to go home, avoiding unnecessary admissions to hospital.
  • (20) A motley battalion is trooping the colours in the snowy yard at the Cossack military school near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), nearly 1,000km south-east of Moscow.

White


Definition:

  • (superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
  • (superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  • (superl.) Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  • (superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  • (superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  • (superl.) Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  • (n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.
  • (n.) Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
  • (n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
  • (n.) A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.
  • (n.) A white pigment; as, Venice white.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
  • (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
  • (2) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
  • (3) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
  • (5) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (6) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
  • (7) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (8) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (9) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
  • (10) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
  • (11) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (12) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
  • (13) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
  • (14) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
  • (15) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (16) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (17) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (18) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
  • (19) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
  • (20) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.

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