snowflake
IPA: snˈoʊfɫeɪk
noun
- A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
- Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.
- The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
- (ophthalmology) A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
- Something that is unique in every presentation.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A Caucasian person.
- (historical) Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
verb
- To fall in the manner of a snowflake.
- (computing, databases) To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.
Advertisement
Examples of "snowflake" in Sentences
- He tried to catch a snowflake.
- It has a snowflake on the front.
- He could see snowflakes visually.
- The shape of snowflake was beautiful.
- There are differents shapes of snowflakes.
- Snowflakes hurtle sideways, stinging faces.
- The teacher told children to draw a snowflake.
- The explanation would be similar to that for snowflakes.
- Below are a variety of implementations of the Koch snowflake.
- The shape of a natural snowflake reflects the history of its formation.
- Still, I think it shows fairly well - this is a single snowflake from a roll panto.
- For example, a snowflake is a highly-structured, nearly fractal, characteristically hexagonal lattice of ice.
- In a couple of days I may go ahead and explain how the snowflake is a dangerous icon of a nature goddess and brainwashes children.
- If you simply look at the positions of the water molecules before and after, a snowflake is * wildly* improbable, and a blizzard defies belief.
- As my awkward paraphrase of an old Zen story puts it, one snowflake is insignificant, but with enough of them you get a blizzard, or an ice age.
- Even if we assume that everyone's fingerprints are different without having actually proved it -- just as we assume that every snowflake is different -- mistakes can be made when comparing a small partial poorly formed fingerprint to a full set of prints carefully made on a special card.
- Parents that have the nerve to name their babies Chanel, Cinnamon or Diamond may as well go full hog and give the kid an eight-ball and some Val-U-Rite vodka, because let's face it, the only job their little snowflake is going to get in life involves sliding down a pole for drunken slobs.