I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rain/snow storm
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They got caught in a terrible snow storm.
artificial snow
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Some ski resorts use huge amounts of artificial snow.
blanket of snow
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The hills were covered with a blanket of snow .
blinding rain/snow/heat etc
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I struggled back to the hut through blinding rain.
it rains/snows heavily
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It’s been raining heavily all day.
pure/snow white (= completely white )
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snow white hair
snow blindness
snow chains
snow cone
snow day
snow globe
snow job
snow line
snow pea
snow plough
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a snow plough turn
snow route
snow tire
snow/land/slum etc clearance
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flooding caused by forest clearance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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They spent their long winters under a deep blanket of snow , singing and creating ghost stories.
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The sick horse, on the inside, floundered among the rocks and deep snow .
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Temperatures have been near-10 to-200F for months now every night, and the deep snow has obliterated even the banks.
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Because many skiers rely on skidding, they come unstuck in deep snow .
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The blind is now covered with deep snow , making it a fir-lined igloo!
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Such knowing like reaching through deep snow to the land beneath.
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Call it big dough for deep snow .
driven
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Perhaps Gwen Evans was as pure as the driven snow .
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He comes across as whiter than the driven snow .
fresh
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That afternoon, looking down from my bedroom window, I had watched the tracks I'd made disappear under fresh snow .
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A fresh blanket of snow makes it difficult to see exactly how wide a swath the Merced and its feeder creeks cut.
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Clouds and fresh snow have high values in all bands.
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This fresh Michigan snow makes a distinct noise of protest when you walk on it.
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He is himself fresh snow , and the baby shoots poking through.
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The lake is flat, its hard crust free of fresh snow .
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He wore a plain white shirt as fresh as new snow tiny gold cufflinks and a polka-dot tie.
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Have you ever watched a big heavy cockerel walk on thick, fresh snow ?
heavy
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However, there had been very heavy snow and the farm was snowed in.
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Shrubs and trees deserve a look after a heavy snow .
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It was believed that the accident happened as an indirect result of heavy rain and snow storms in the city.
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For the most part, however, Boston in a heavy snow was skiers' Eden.
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For the first time in seven years, heavy winter snow has filled California's rivers.
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I walked laboriously, sinking deeply into the heavy crusted snow with every step.
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Low, clear and cold and sport patchy. Heavy falls of snow will result in more cold water.
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He scooped up the heavy wet snow , digging hard, his mind ticking through the mechanics of a last nifty illusion.
thick
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The bushes wore thick caps of snow .
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Elsewhere there was thick snow on the A68 and slushy snow on the A1 near Alnwick.
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It was a heavy snowfall and by morning even the most prominent landmark was disguised beneath a thick covering of snow .
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It most certainly lightened my step and made my fingers more nimble as we marched through the thick snow .
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The streets and roofs of the houses were covered with a thick mantle of snow .
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Have you ever watched a big heavy cockerel walk on thick , fresh snow ?
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Frank Galvone walked in, clad in a snow-covered sheepskin which trailed his ankles, the fur thick with snow.
white
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Porcelain shepherdess and fleeces white as snow .
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Tiny fields, green and white where the snow was melting again, led down to the outskirts of the town.
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The children had named it Winter because it was as white as snow .
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Above me, a strange moon, white as snow , waned behind purple clouds.
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The chaplain went white as snow and fainted straight out of the pulpit.
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She had shiny black hair, skin as white as snow , and cheeks as red as the setting sun.
■ NOUN
cover
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The bad winter weather with no guaranteed snow cover could prove to be this expansion's downfall.
drift
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A snow drift of paper is going to hit it.
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His presidential hopes thus suffered a fatal blow in the snow drifts of New Hampshire.
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Mountain goats have to contend with narrow ice-covered ledges, deep snow drifts and avalanches.
fall
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On the screen snow falls , a boy walks down steps, a younger, dreadlocked Bamgboye takes a bath.
flurry
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A sudden snow flurry gives Nathan his first-ever view - if that is not a contradiction in terms - of a white-out.
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He stepped out, and the cold from a recent snow flurry smacked him hard in the face.
storm
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The worst snow storm was in January 1940, when ten trams and a bus failed to make the depot.
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The snow storm is expected to drop up to 30 inches of snow in some parts of the U. S. Northeast.
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It was believed that the accident happened as an indirect result of heavy rain and snow storms in the city.
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Northeasters and snow storms hurt most retailers, but the weather actually helped Sears.
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The Homeowners' account was adversely affected by weather claims, including the East Coast snow storms .
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Moira Anderson vanished without trace in a snow storm while running an errand for her grandmother on 23 February 1957.
winter
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When winter snow and ice cover the breeding grounds the birds head south to Britain.
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Meanwhile, the blanket of winter snow was disappearing about a week earlier in 1991 than it was in the early 1980s.
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For the first time in seven years, heavy winter snow has filled California's rivers.
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Three part version is available with a summer or winter snow basket as an optional extra.
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There are some small craft under wraps, lined up abandoned to the winter snow which has almost buried them.
■ VERB
clear
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The concrete paths had been cleared of snow and ice.
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Be certain to clear snow from around your lights, front and rear.
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After clearing away the snow , I managed to enter the hut.
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His engine was running and his windscreen wipers whipped back and forth to keep the glass clear of snow .
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And remember that it is illegal to drive with an obscured license plate. Clear it of snow .
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He cleared the wet snow from a bench with his forearm.
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As a camera crew shot the outside of the Ramsey home, neighbor Barnhill was busy clearing new-fallen snow from his sidewalk.
drive
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It swirled and howled, driving the sleet and snow towards him alone.
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They carried parasols and held them against the driving snow as they minced along in three-inch clogs.
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The biting wind drove the snow before it, so that the whole dale seemed to be lost in a grey mist.
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Instead of slowing down and driving through the snow and ice like sensible individuals, they drive like idiots.
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Outside I could hear the wind driving the snow against the window.
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Both teams will have driven through drifting snow to play the game.
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At the end of each film there is a short piece on driving on snow using a 4x4 Jeep.
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In the face of the hard, driving snow , the stage slowed.
stop
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Next day, they stopped and made snow houses.
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He stopped and the snow began to drift over the toes of his boots.
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Six of them did a routine on top of a tank, and did not stop even when the snow began to fall.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mantle of snow/darkness etc
be as pure as the driven snow
driving rain/snow
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He feels like a fool in his virtual reality goggles as he trudges through the driving rain to the parked aircraft.
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In the face of the hard, driving snow, the stage slowed.
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Inside, peace reigns, even in driving rain.
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The air was full of driving rain as Jack climbed the hill.
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The darkness was so complete that no one could have seen her through the driving rain and almost instantly the house disappeared.
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The somber job was made more difficult by driving snow and subfreezing temperatures.
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There was continuous driving rain, and a cold that numbed me.
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They carried parasols and held them against the driving snow as they minced along in three-inch clogs.
snow-bound/strike-bound/tradition-bound etc
snow-clad/ivy-clad etc
snow/ice field
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Andy and John are on an ice field in Zanskar now, toiling slowly up toward the monastery.
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Cross-country skiing is very popular and cable cars and ski lifts take the skiers up to the snow fields .
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Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields .
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This ice field was steeper than the first, and twice as high.
the snow line
virgin land/forest/soil/snow etc
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After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway.
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Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest.
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Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.
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In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow.
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In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.
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Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.
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The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.
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Within an hour, Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Over six inches of snow fell last night.
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She disappeared without trace in a heavy snow storm.
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Some snow is expected to fall in the Rockies tonight.
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The recent storm was one of the heaviest snows this winter.
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The tops of the mountains were still covered in snow .
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The trees were covered with snow .
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There was a single line of footprints in the virgin snow .
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Tony and I trudged home through the deep snow .
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When climbing in snow and ice, it is essential to use the correct gear.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Businesses were suffering from the snow even in the deep South.
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For the most part, however, Boston in a heavy snow was skiers' Eden.
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I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe.
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Perhaps Gwen Evans was as pure as the driven snow .
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That snow piled up outside windows in Washington and elsewhere in the Northeast may slow business even more.
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There will be some gains, including faster growing forests, less snow and lower heating bills.
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We were crossing a high, thin cordillera of mountains, their tops already covered with snow .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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It snowed again in the night, on an icy wind.
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It had snowed again during the night.
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It was snowing again , or sleeting, when Kalchu's uncle died in February.
heavily
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Sometimes, when it snowed heavily , the filmmakers were terrified lest she would not get back from London in time.
under
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I found myself snowed under from the start.
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He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications.
■ VERB
start
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Darkness fell early, and it started to snow .
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He said it started snowing in the area around noon.
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It had started to snow , huge flakes swirling in the cold evening.
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It's just started to snow here and the snow is filled with ice cold rain its horrible!
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It had started to snow , the first I'd seen since leaving Toronto.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It snowed continually for three weeks.
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McDonald is manipulating his supporters, snowing them with his good looks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because I would never snow you.
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I found myself snowed under from the start.
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In the last week it had positively snowed letters and business.
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It snowed again in the night, on an icy wind.
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It never snows there, and you can swim in the ocean all year round.