Crossword clues for snowball
snowball
- Balloon with delivery following small present
- Advocaat and lemonade drink
- Drink with little chance of being found in Hell?
- To accumulate win, snob needs the lot
- Actor Pendleton
- Grow uncontrollably
- Winter missile
- Wintertime missile
- Winter-time missile
- Rapidly increase in size
- Possible name for a white cat
- Keep growing rapidly
- Get bigger and bigger
- Drink of advocaat and lemonade
- Advocaat cocktail — escalate
- Snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)
- Plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers
- Grows in sandy arid regions
- Ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce
- Ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup
- Cold war ammunition?
- Accumulate and accelerate
- Gather momentum
- Accumulate rapidly
- Get bigger present after small party
- Winter party cocktail?
- Winter dance party is to be thrown!
- Standing during songs t.A.T.u. sang
- Rapidly get large cocktail
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snowball \Snow"ball`\, n.
A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
(Bot.) The Guelder-rose.
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(Bot.) a shrub of the genus Viburnum, having large clusters of white flowers.
Snowball bush or Snowball tree (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
a snowball's chance in hell, [Colloq.] no chance; an infinitesimal chance.
Snowball \Snow"ball`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snowballed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snowballing.] To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
Snowball \Snow"ball`\, v. i.
To throw snowballs.
To increase in magnitude at an accelerating rate, achieving large proportions; -- by analogy with a snowball rolling down a steep hill, causing a large snow slide.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to make snowballs," 1680s, from snowball (n.); sense of "to throw snowballs at" (someone) is from 1850. Meaning "to increase rapidly" is attested from 1929, though the image of a snowball increasing in size as it rolls along had been used since at least 1613, and a noun sense of "a pyramid scheme" is attested from 1892. Related: Snowballed; snowballing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter. 2 A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat. 3 (context figuratively English) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control). 4 A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's. 5 (context US English) A type of ice dessert. 6 A type of cake. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control. 2 (context intransitive English) To play at throwing snowballs. 3 (context transitive English) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at. 4 (context intransitive English) (''sexual slang'') To receive a man's ejaculate in one's mouth, and then to pass it back and forth between one's mouth and his.
WordNet
n. plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions [syn: sweet sand verbena, Abronia elliptica]
ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce
ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup
snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)
v. increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate
throw snowballs at
Wikipedia
Snowball is a character in George Orwell's Animal Farm. He is largely based on Leon Trotsky and describes how he led the opposition against Joseph Stalin ( Napoleon), though he also includes elements of Vladimir Lenin. Snowball is not given any specific description, but it seems likely that he is a Landrace pig, a breed common in Britain that is usually coloured white. He is shown as a pink pig on the movie poster for the 1999 film Animal Farm.
A snowball is a ball of snow, usually made by compacting snow with the hands. Snowball may also refer to:
A snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands, and compacting it into a roughly fist-sized ball. The snowball is often used to engage in games, such as snowball fights. Snowball fights are usually light-hearted and involve throwing snowballs at one's friends or family. The pressure exerted by the hands on the snow is a determinant for the final result. Reduced pressure leads to a light and soft snowball. Compacting humid or "packing" snow, by applying a high pressure produces a harder snowball or "iceball", which eventually can be considered harmful during a snowball fight.
A snowball may also be a large ball of snow formed by rolling a smaller snowball on a snow-covered surface. The smaller snowball grows by picking up additional snow as it rolls. The terms " snowball effect", "snowballing" and " Y Gasseg Eira" are named after this process. Often a snowman can be created using this method of snowballing, to create the sections needed to build the sculpture.
There are some temperature/humidity ranges that prohibit or restrict the formulation of a snowball. With a powdery snow, snowballs are difficult to form. In temperatures below , there is little free water in the snow, which leads to crumbly snowballs. At or above, melted water in the snow results in a better cohesion. If a person is walking on snow and it squeaks, chances are the temperature/humidity level won't form a snowball, because squeaking means that the snow is dry.
Snowball is a small string processing programming language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in information retrieval.
The Snowball compiler translates a Snowball script (a .sbl file) into either a thread-safe ANSI C program or a Java program. For ANSI C, each Snowball script produces a program file and corresponding header file (with .c and .h extensions). The Snowball compiler checks the consistency of its script, and this check was used to discover a typo in a seminal academic paper by Lovins which had remained undetected for 30 years.
The basic datatypes handled by Snowball are strings of characters, signed integers, and boolean truth values, or more simply strings, integers and booleans. Snowball's characters are either 8-bit wide, or 16-bit, depending on the mode of use. In particular, both ASCII and 16-bit Unicode are supported. Like the SNOBOL programming language, the flow of control in Snowball is arranged by the implicit use of signals (each statement returns a true or false value), rather than the explicit use of constructs such as if, then, and break found in C and many other programming languages.
The name Snowball was chosen as a tribute to the SNOBOL programming language, with which it shares the concept of string patterns delivering signals that are used to control the flow of the program. The creator of Snowball, Dr. Martin Porter, "toyed with the idea of calling it 'strippergram' ", because it "effectively provides a 'suffix STRIPPER GRAMmar' ".
Snowball is a variation of the swing dance that gets its name from the way that it gathers dancers.
The dance begins with a large number of dancers forming a ring around a small number of dancers (usually around 2-6). When the music starts, only the people in the middle of the ring dance. A little while into the song, the band calls out " snowball!", at which point each of the dancers in the middle grabs a new partner from the ring. This occurs a few more times until everyone has been brought into the dance.
Snowball dances have become a tradition in middle school gyms across much of North America.
Category:Swing dances
Snowball (hatched c. 1996) is a male Eleonora cockatoo, noted as being the first non-human animal conclusively demonstrated to be capable of beat induction — perceiving music and synchronizing his body movements to the beat (i.e. dancing).
Snowball is the debut album by England twee pop group The Field Mice. It was originally released as a 10" vinyl LP on September 4, 1989 through Sarah Records.
The Snowball is an Nano-ITX- form factor single-board computer using the NovaThor A9500.
The Linux-based mobile operating system Tizen was ported to Snowball in early 2012.
The Snowball had a public support site at igloocommunity.org, but since support for the board has been withdrawn, the tools are archived at GitHub: 1
Snowball is a 1995 Italian adventure- comedy film written and directed by Maurizio Nichetti.
Snowball is a 1960 British crime film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Gordon Jackson, Kenneth Griffith and Zena Walker. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.
A Snowball is a mixture of advocaat and lemonade in approximately equal parts. It may have other ingredients, to taste.
It typically contains a squeeze of fresh lime juice, which is shaken with the advocaat before pouring into a glass and topping up with lemonade.
If not wanting to make fresh advocaat, which typically consists of 1 egg, 30 ml of simple syrup, and 60 ml of brandy, for the cocktail, then it may be substituted by using a commercial version.
In the United Kingdom, it is often sold in both pubs and supermarkets in small bottles of approximately (known in the pub trade as "splits") and is usually drunk as a "winter warmer".
Usage examples of "snowball".
If this terrible woman continued to make ground at her present rate of progress he would have no more chance than the proverbially proverbial snowball in a proverbially proverbial hell.
The boys made snowballs with it, but never put stones in them to hurt each other, and the dogs, when they were taken out to scombre, bit it and rolled in it, and looked surprised but delighted when they vanished into the bigger drifts.
The important thing was that Snowball was all right, crouched on top of the refrigerator, green eyes wide and accusing, white fur puffed spikily along her spine.
Righ or King Roberto, who had realized even as the ancient crown of Ulaid was lowered upon his brow that his small, weak, impoverished little holding had had all the chance of a wet snowball on a hot griddle against the power and the wealth of the grasping High King, had sought about and then made the short sea journey to the Hebrides Islands, whereafter certain negotiationshe had given over the Kingdom of Ulaid to Sir Aonghus, Regulus of the Isles, then received it back of the powerful old man as a feoff.
Some of them wrestled with their dogs in the new snow, and a few snowball fights broke out as well.
Behind him came the white horse Snowball with the glittery Madame Solitaire riding sideways on its bare back, facing the crowd, then the dapple-gray Bubbles with Clover Lee doing the same, both the steeds stepping high and prettily and nodding their heads so their plumes danced.
The rockaway was truly rocking, also pitching and lurching and bouncing, over a grievously rutted and blistered and scabbed and chuck-holed road on which even the four-footed Snowball was having to watch his step.
I scooped under the snow for teaberry plants to boil down and pour over snowballs for dessert.
The Legion survey ship that made the first chart found five iron asteroids and three snowballs like this one.
Phrased in this manner, speed is a rather mundane concept, and you may wonder about the fuss we have made regarding the speed of baseballs, snowballs, and photons.
Notice that if the speed of light were not constant but behaved according to our intuition based on slow-moving baseballs and snowballs, the platform observers would agree with those on the train.
Olivia let Geoff drive the sleigh, and together they made snowballs and pelted Victoria and Charles until they drove them indoors, and then Olivia helped him build a snowman.
He learned about the star called Sun and the planets down around it and the billions of snowballs in the halo.
The sky outside was scattered with tiny silver moons, the mirror shells around the snowballs of the cluster.
In the pilot bubble, he could look out at the unchanging constellations and the creeping navigation lights that marked the shielded snowballs clustered around him.