ice floe vs snow

ice floe

noun
  • A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field. 

  • An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river. 

  • Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice. 

  • An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier 

snow

noun
  • A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. 

  • The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. 

  • The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received. 

  • marine snow 

  • A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. 

  • Cocaine. 

  • Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid. 

  • A shade of the color white. 

verb
  • To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. 

  • To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. 

  • To have snow fall from the sky. 

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