I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ heavy , thick
▪ fine , light
▪
The plants were covered in fine ~.
▪ deep
▪ wet
▪ compacted , crisp , frozen , hard , icy , packed
▪
The crisp ~ crunched as we walked through it.
▪
The frozen ~ was treacherous to walk on.
▪ powder , powdery , slushy , soft
▪ drifting , driving , falling , swirling
▪
They struggled on through the driving ~.
▪ melted , melting
▪ fresh , freshly fallen , new , newly fallen
▪ first
▪
the first ~ of winter
▪ spring , winter
▪ artificial , fake
▪
They had to use artificial ~ at the Winter Olympics.
▪ dirty
… OF SNOW
▪ flake
▪ fall ( esp. BrE ), flurry
▪ patch
▪ dusting
▪
There was a light dusting of ~ on the ground.
▪ blanket , carpet , layer
▪ pile
▪
There were great big piles of ~ on the road outside.
▪ foot , inch
▪
The porch is currently covered in three feet of ~.
▪
Three inches of ~ had fallen.
▪ handful
▪
He grabbed a handful of ~ and threw it at Kate.
VERB + SNOW
▪ be covered in
▪
The car was completely covered in ~.
▪ blow ( AmE ), clear ( esp. BrE ), plough/plow ( esp. AmE ), shovel ( esp. AmE ), sweep
▪
She cleared the ~ from the path.
▪ melt
▪
The sun came out and melted all the ~.
▪ expect
▪
We're expecting ~ over the next few days.
▪ get , have
▪
Southern Europe rarely gets ~.
▪ struggle through , trudge through , walk through
▪
I trudged through the ~ and ice to the edge of town.
SNOW + VERB
▪ cover sth , lie , pile , pile up , settle
▪
Snow covered everything from horizon to horizon.
▪
Snow had piled up against the walls of the house.
▪
It was too warm for the ~ to settle.
▪ come down , drift , drive , fall , swirl
▪
The heaviest ~ is coming down in Maine.
▪ melt , thaw
SNOW + NOUN
▪ flurry , shower , storm (usually snowstorm )
▪ conditions
▪
The ~ conditions were excellent.
▪ fall (usually snowfall )
▪
a heavy snowfall
▪
a light snowfall
▪
an area of low snowfall
▪ cover
▪
The glacier provides skiers with year-round ~ cover.
▪ line (usually snowline )
▪
animals that live above the snowline
▪ bank , drift (usually snowdrift )
▪
He got his car stuck in a snowdrift.
▪ field (usually snowfield )
▪ slide (usually snowslide ) ( AmE ) ( avalanche in BrE )
▪ day ( AmE )
▪
Growing up in New York, I had my share of ~ days.
▪ blower (usually snowblower ) , plough/plow (usually snowplough/snowplow ) , shovel
▪ cannon ( BrE ), gun
▪ blindness
▪ chains , tyre/tire
▪ shoe (usually snowshoe )
▪ globe
▪
She bought a plastic ~ globe with the Eiffel Tower inside.
PREPOSITION
▪ across the ~
▪
We walked across the ~ to the road.
▪ in ~ , into ~
▪
The children are playing in the ~.
▪ through ~
▪
We struggled through the deep ~ back to the chalet.
▪ under ~
▪
The steps were buried under the ~.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ hard , heavily
▪
It had been ~ing heavily all night.
▪ lightly
▪ outside
▪
It looked to be ~ing outside.
▪ overnight
▪
We woke up to find that it had ~ed overnight.
VERB + SNOW
▪ begin to , start to
PHRASES
▪ start ~ing , stop ~ing
▪
It started ~ing just as we were setting out.