Snowball
noun
A small, round ball made from snow, usually thrown at others for fun.
The kids were outside making snowballs to throw at each other.
Often appears as...
- throw a snowball
- make a snowball
verb
To increase rapidly in size, intensity, or importance.
After a few small success, his business started to snowball.
Often appears as...
- snowball effect
- snowball into something bigger
noun
A drink made from Advocaat and lemonade, sometimes with lime juice and a cherry.
She decided to make a snowball cocktail for the party.
Often appears as...
- drink a snowball
- snowball cocktail
noun
A round, white flower which blooms in clusters, such as the snowball bush.
The snowball bush in her garden was in full bloom.
Often appears as...
- snowball bush
- snowball flower
noun
A small, round ball made from snow, usually thrown at others for fun.
The kids were outside making snowballs to throw at each other.
Often appears as...
- throw a snowball
- make a snowball
verb
To increase rapidly in size, intensity, or importance.
After a few small success, his business started to snowball.
Often appears as...
- snowball effect
- snowball into something bigger
noun
A drink made from Advocaat and lemonade, sometimes with lime juice and a cherry.
She decided to make a snowball cocktail for the party.
Often appears as...
- drink a snowball
- snowball cocktail
noun
A round, white flower which blooms in clusters, such as the snowball bush.
The snowball bush in her garden was in full bloom.
Often appears as...
- snowball bush
- snowball flower
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Playful Context
Used when talking about winter activities or playful fighting, suggesting fun and innocence.
During the school break, the park was filled with laughter and flying snowballs.
Pro Tip 2/3Cold Hands
Making snowballs can imply having cold hands, which may be associated with discomfort or fun in the cold.
Better wear gloves if you don't want your hands to freeze while making snowballs.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Weapon
Though thrown at others, snowballs aren't considered harmful, but misuse can cause accidents.
Hey, be careful not to aim the snowball at someone's face; it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
Pro Tip 1/3Playful Context
Used when talking about winter activities or playful fighting, suggesting fun and innocence.
During the school break, the park was filled with laughter and flying snowballs.
Pro Tip 2/3Cold Hands
Making snowballs can imply having cold hands, which may be associated with discomfort or fun in the cold.
Better wear gloves if you don't want your hands to freeze while making snowballs.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Weapon
Though thrown at others, snowballs aren't considered harmful, but misuse can cause accidents.
Hey, be careful not to aim the snowball at someone's face; it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
Pro Tip 1/3Playful Context
Used when talking about winter activities or playful fighting, suggesting fun and innocence.
During the school break, the park was filled with laughter and flying snowballs.
Pro Tip 2/3Cold Hands
Making snowballs can imply having cold hands, which may be associated with discomfort or fun in the cold.
Better wear gloves if you don't want your hands to freeze while making snowballs.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Weapon
Though thrown at others, snowballs aren't considered harmful, but misuse can cause accidents.
Hey, be careful not to aim the snowball at someone's face; it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
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Video examples
How a single-celled...
The planet was basically one giant snowball for several hundred million years. Eventually, life adjusted. Aerobic organisms, which can use oxygen for energy, started sopping up some of the excess gas in the atmosphere. The oxygen concentration rose and fell until eventually it reached the approximate 21% we have today.
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Stuart Brown: Play is...
It doesn't have a particular purpose, and that's what's great about play. If its purpose is more important than the act of doing it, it's probably not play. And there's a whole other type of play, which is object play. And this Japanese macaque has made a snowball, and he or she's going to roll down a hill.
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
something else comes in now you may have the ability to deceive and maybe your ability to deceive has a visual cue and maybe that visual cue helps people see if someone is lying or something is lying and something's trying to deceive them so it's just snowballs it's a
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Inside an Antarctic time...
they have to ensure this ice doesn't melt imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics they have to in fact make sure this ice never gets warmer than about 20 degrees below zero otherwise the key gases inside it will dissipate so in the
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Lee Hotz: Inside an...
they have to insure this ice doesn't melt. Imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics. They have to, in fact, make sure this ice never gets warmer than about 20 degrees below zero, otherwise, the key gases inside it will dissipate.
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What really matters at...
the fascination as I watched it melt and turn into water. In that moment, just being any part of this planet in this universe mattered more to me than whether I lived or died. That little snowball packed all the inspiration I needed
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Snowball Earth? PIPE...
planet's past welcome to snowball earth a snowball earth is certainly the most extreme climate change we can conceive the earth having ever experienced what would happen if the world froze over today massive glaciers creep from the
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Crossing a Snow Packed...
if it's deep that River could suck me under the ice so I've got to come up with a plan this is where a little bit of mountaineering strategy comes in get my snow shovel I'm going to make a snowball er an improvised anchoring
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Heal your brain with...
patients place no world by wearing a virtual reality headset and using a joystick to navigate the frozen landscape exploring ice caves throwing snowballs at snowmen it sounds really simple but studies show that snow
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The World's Most Rare...
stromatolites were Earth's dominant life form where it not for the violent climatic changes triggered by volcanoes at the end of the snowball they might
Video examples
How a single-celled...
The planet was basically one giant snowball for several hundred million years. Eventually, life adjusted. Aerobic organisms, which can use oxygen for energy, started sopping up some of the excess gas in the atmosphere. The oxygen concentration rose and fell until eventually it reached the approximate 21% we have today.
Video examples
Stuart Brown: Play is...
It doesn't have a particular purpose, and that's what's great about play. If its purpose is more important than the act of doing it, it's probably not play. And there's a whole other type of play, which is object play. And this Japanese macaque has made a snowball, and he or she's going to roll down a hill.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
something else comes in now you may have the ability to deceive and maybe your ability to deceive has a visual cue and maybe that visual cue helps people see if someone is lying or something is lying and something's trying to deceive them so it's just snowballs it's a
Video examples
Inside an Antarctic time...
they have to ensure this ice doesn't melt imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics they have to in fact make sure this ice never gets warmer than about 20 degrees below zero otherwise the key gases inside it will dissipate so in the
Video examples
Lee Hotz: Inside an...
they have to insure this ice doesn't melt. Imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics. They have to, in fact, make sure this ice never gets warmer than about 20 degrees below zero, otherwise, the key gases inside it will dissipate.
Video examples
What really matters at...
the fascination as I watched it melt and turn into water. In that moment, just being any part of this planet in this universe mattered more to me than whether I lived or died. That little snowball packed all the inspiration I needed
Video examples
Snowball Earth? PIPE...
planet's past welcome to snowball earth a snowball earth is certainly the most extreme climate change we can conceive the earth having ever experienced what would happen if the world froze over today massive glaciers creep from the
Video examples
Crossing a Snow Packed...
if it's deep that River could suck me under the ice so I've got to come up with a plan this is where a little bit of mountaineering strategy comes in get my snow shovel I'm going to make a snowball er an improvised anchoring
Video examples
Heal your brain with...
patients place no world by wearing a virtual reality headset and using a joystick to navigate the frozen landscape exploring ice caves throwing snowballs at snowmen it sounds really simple but studies show that snow
Video examples
The World's Most Rare...
stromatolites were Earth's dominant life form where it not for the violent climatic changes triggered by volcanoes at the end of the snowball they might
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Quote examples
Sean Bean
English Actor
In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily.
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Brad Rutter
American Entertainer
The buzzer timing is so important and when you get into a rhythm like that - to go back to baseball you'll hear hitters on a hot streak say that the ball looks like a beach ball -and when you have the timing on the buzzer and you're just getting in whenever you want, that seems to sort of snowball.
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Aljamain Sterling
American Athlete
You change the mind and world of one individual and that's huge, man. You reach one person and that starts a spiral effect and starts to snowball. I think that's the one thing as an athlete we should all focus on doing and that's striving to give back in a positive manner.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a place for it and narrow down. It's, really, just start small, and as I'm writing it, I begin to see - sometimes to my own surprise - what's unfolding and what's blooming.
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Dave Rowntree
English Musician
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
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Brian Molko
Belgian Musician
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
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Stone Cold Steve Austin
American Actor
Once I came up with the 'Stone Cold' thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope.
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Nick Woodman
American Businessman
The magic of GoPro is that we are enabling the world to communicate in this new way, to express themselves in a new way, and it's snowballing.
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Susan B. Anthony
American Activist
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Andy Goldsworthy
British Artist
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
Quote examples
Sean Bean
English Actor
In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily.
Quote examples
Brad Rutter
American Entertainer
The buzzer timing is so important and when you get into a rhythm like that - to go back to baseball you'll hear hitters on a hot streak say that the ball looks like a beach ball -and when you have the timing on the buzzer and you're just getting in whenever you want, that seems to sort of snowball.
Quote examples
Aljamain Sterling
American Athlete
You change the mind and world of one individual and that's huge, man. You reach one person and that starts a spiral effect and starts to snowball. I think that's the one thing as an athlete we should all focus on doing and that's striving to give back in a positive manner.
Quote examples
Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a place for it and narrow down. It's, really, just start small, and as I'm writing it, I begin to see - sometimes to my own surprise - what's unfolding and what's blooming.
Quote examples
Dave Rowntree
English Musician
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
Quote examples
Brian Molko
Belgian Musician
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
Quote examples
Stone Cold Steve Austin
American Actor
Once I came up with the 'Stone Cold' thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope.
Quote examples
Nick Woodman
American Businessman
The magic of GoPro is that we are enabling the world to communicate in this new way, to express themselves in a new way, and it's snowballing.
Quote examples
Susan B. Anthony
American Activist
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Quote examples
Andy Goldsworthy
British Artist
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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