snowflake
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
ophthalmology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From snow + flake. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneeflokke (“snowflake”), Dutch sneeuwvlok, Luxembourgish Schnéiflack, German Schneeflocke.
Compound parts: snow
flake
Inflected forms:
form: snowflakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snow flake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: snow-flake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ❄
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: snowflakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snowflaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snowflaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snowflaked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snow flake
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: snow-flake
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ❄
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: When I come home, one space monkey is reading to the assembled space monkeys who sit covering the whole first floor. “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
gloss: Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: When have words ever hurt anyone? The triggered snowflakes at this liberal university are trying to literally murder our freedom of speech.
Fox News pundits claim to be upset because companies are choosing to embrace the "holidays" rather than "Christmas" to avoid offending any liberal snowflakes.
Now, at least in theory, snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow’s nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage. “White” — even the title is a trigger — is a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed.
Within a few minutes of stepping foot on the school grounds, a triggered snowflake called the police. Multiple officers accosted Kevin McMahon, a YAF staffer, and threatened to arrest him for exercising his free speech rights since he was outside the designated "free speech area."
gloss: A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
pos: noun
examples: Robertson and colleagues reported 10 patients in four families with lesions similar to those of stage I and stage II snowflake generation.
The authors have recently analyzed a PMMA lens explanted because of snowflake degeneration in the dry and hydrated states.
These defects may be more pronounced in the superior visual field, perhaps corresponding to the inferior predilection for the snowflake lesions.
gloss: Something that is unique in every presentation.
pos: noun
examples: MS is referred to as a “snowflake” disease because symptoms vary from person to person.
gloss: A Caucasian person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
usually
examples: Alright, snowflake, where's the dope?
gloss: Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To fall in the manner of a snowflake.
pos: verb
examples: Like a seagull swooping, the white figure of a victim snowflaked against the cliff and then plummeted down.
gloss: To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.
pos: verb
Related words: ❄
snowfleck
Derived words: autumn snowflake
broflake
flowsnake
Koch snowflake
paper snowflake
quiet as a snowflake
snowflake baby
snowflake child
snowflake curve
snowflake eel
snowflake generation
snowflakelike
snowflake moray
snowflakeness
snowflake obsidian
snowflake queen
snowflakery
snowflake schema
snowflake wheel
snowflaky
special snowflake
special snowflake syndrome
spring snowflake
summer snowflake
Translations: