Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mass or bank of snow piled up by the wind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drift of snow; snow driven by the wind; also, a bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- noun Same as
snow-on-the-mountain , 1. - noun The sweet alyssum, Aduseton maritimum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bank of drifted snow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bank of snow accumulated by the
wind .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mass of snow heaped up by the wind
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Examples
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Laponie Ice Driving in Arjeplog, Sweden, a place that brings a whole new meaning to the term "snowdrift".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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Laponie Ice Driving in Arjeplog, Sweden, a place that brings a whole new meaning to the term "snowdrift".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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"Why this radiant peak, a reflection of our highest and purest aspirations, should have been transformed into a dirty snowdrift is a mystery to this viewer."
Ansel Adams at 100 2002
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"Why this radiant peak, a reflection of our highest and purest aspirations, should have been transformed into a dirty snowdrift is a mystery to this viewer."
Ansel Adams at 100 2002
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This suggests that the yeast are playing what game theorists call a snowdrift game.
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This suggests that the yeast are playing what game theorists call a snowdrift game.
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This suggests that the yeast are playing what game theorists call a snowdrift game.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Mr. Paakkanen's designs for Avarte include a sleek, throne-like armchair called Nietos (which means "snowdrift"'in Finnish), made from laminated birch, and Taitos (which means "fold"), a series of stackable birch and plastic chairs with distinctive cut-diamond seats and backs.
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I dug my way through a snowdrift to reach a tree, barely able to pull the last bit of rope up to clip myself to the anchor.
After the Fall, a Lingering Doubt Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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That evening it got stuck in a snowdrift on Dartmoor and rapidly became engulfed in snow.
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