Snowflake
noun
A small piece of snow that falls from the sky. Snowflakes are white and have many different shapes.
Every unique snowflake whirled in the winter air
Often appears as...
- falling snowflakes
- snowflake pattern
noun
A person who has a unique character or special qualities.
Everyone's a snowflake with their own one-of-a-kind genetic code
Often appears as...
- special snowflake
- unique snowflake
Usage tips
Informal, Approving
Idiomatic
noun
An overly sensitive or easily upset person.
He accused me of being a snowflake when I complained about the rude service
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A type of crystal which shape is similar to a snowflake.
The snowflake-structured design of the necklace looks beautiful
Often appears as...
- snowflake design
- snowflake structure
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small piece of snow that falls from the sky. Snowflakes are white and have many different shapes.
Every unique snowflake whirled in the winter air
Often appears as...
- falling snowflakes
- snowflake pattern
noun
A person who has a unique character or special qualities.
Everyone's a snowflake with their own one-of-a-kind genetic code
Often appears as...
- special snowflake
- unique snowflake
Usage tips
Informal, Approving
Idiomatic
noun
An overly sensitive or easily upset person.
He accused me of being a snowflake when I complained about the rude service
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A type of crystal which shape is similar to a snowflake.
The snowflake-structured design of the necklace looks beautiful
Often appears as...
- snowflake design
- snowflake structure
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Imagery
Visualize each snowflake's uniqueness for vivid descriptions in storytelling or poetry.
A galaxy of intricate snowflakes decorated the midnight canvas.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Beauty
Use 'snowflake' to convey the beauty of nature in winter landscapes in writing or conversations.
The pristine snowflake pattern blanketed the sleepy town.
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Imagery
Visualize each snowflake's uniqueness for vivid descriptions in storytelling or poetry.
A galaxy of intricate snowflakes decorated the midnight canvas.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Beauty
Use 'snowflake' to convey the beauty of nature in winter landscapes in writing or conversations.
The pristine snowflake pattern blanketed the sleepy town.
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Imagery
Visualize each snowflake's uniqueness for vivid descriptions in storytelling or poetry.
A galaxy of intricate snowflakes decorated the midnight canvas.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Beauty
Use 'snowflake' to convey the beauty of nature in winter landscapes in writing or conversations.
The pristine snowflake pattern blanketed the sleepy town.
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Video examples
Marcus du Sautoy:...
He has a character describing the snowflake, and he says he "shuddered at its perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death." But what artists like to do is to set up expectations of symmetry and then break them. And a beautiful example of this I found, actually, when I visited a colleague of mine
Video examples
Self-assembly: The power...
It's a process that not only happens in the biological and chemical world, but is a phenomenon that can be seen from magnets to snowflakes, robotics, social networks, the formations of cities and galaxies, to name just a few. In biology and chemistry, self assembly is everywhere,
Video examples
The science of...
Unlike ice cubes, formed when liquid freezes into a solid, snowflakes form when water vapor turns straight into ice. But that still doesn't explain why snowflakes have six sides. To understand that, we need to delve deeper into the physics of water.
Video examples
CERN's supercollider PIPE...
and cold and complicated universe. Back at the start, in the first billionth of a second, we believe, or we've observed, it was very simple. It's almost like imagine a snowflake in your hand, and you look at it, and it's an incredibly complicated,
Video examples
Lobster Babies PIPE...
ocean about 700 thousand hatchlings in all it's a cloudburst of life a great barrage of vitality swarming into the ocean the larvae have a flattened shape that allows them to drift and spin in the ocean much is a snowflake drifts
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Snowflake Science to...
fragile snow crystals that dazzle us in an array of shapes and sizes. But there's a lot more to these intricate ice formations than meets the eye. Turns out that by looking a lot closer, snowflakes may also help us save lives.
Video examples
Courtney Martin:...
all at once. Many in my generation -- because of well-intentioned parenting and self-esteem education -- were socialized to believe that we were special little snowflakes -- who were going to go out and save the world.
Video examples
Sea Salps PIPE National...
they pump water through their bodies to breathe catch food and move about as you can see there is diverse as snowflakes as beautiful as crystal chandeliers drifting gracefully through the oceans of the world
Video examples
Camille Seaman: Haunting...
on top of another snowflake, year after year. Icebergs are born when they calve off of glaciers or break off of ice shelves. Each iceberg has its own individual personality.
Video examples
When Family Secrets (And...
grandfather and i remembered him better than my father he had these eyelashes like snowflakes he said can i help you and i said that's david
Video examples
Marcus du Sautoy:...
He has a character describing the snowflake, and he says he "shuddered at its perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death." But what artists like to do is to set up expectations of symmetry and then break them. And a beautiful example of this I found, actually, when I visited a colleague of mine
Video examples
Self-assembly: The power...
It's a process that not only happens in the biological and chemical world, but is a phenomenon that can be seen from magnets to snowflakes, robotics, social networks, the formations of cities and galaxies, to name just a few. In biology and chemistry, self assembly is everywhere,
Video examples
The science of...
Unlike ice cubes, formed when liquid freezes into a solid, snowflakes form when water vapor turns straight into ice. But that still doesn't explain why snowflakes have six sides. To understand that, we need to delve deeper into the physics of water.
Video examples
CERN's supercollider PIPE...
and cold and complicated universe. Back at the start, in the first billionth of a second, we believe, or we've observed, it was very simple. It's almost like imagine a snowflake in your hand, and you look at it, and it's an incredibly complicated,
Video examples
Lobster Babies PIPE...
ocean about 700 thousand hatchlings in all it's a cloudburst of life a great barrage of vitality swarming into the ocean the larvae have a flattened shape that allows them to drift and spin in the ocean much is a snowflake drifts
Video examples
Snowflake Science to...
fragile snow crystals that dazzle us in an array of shapes and sizes. But there's a lot more to these intricate ice formations than meets the eye. Turns out that by looking a lot closer, snowflakes may also help us save lives.
Video examples
Courtney Martin:...
all at once. Many in my generation -- because of well-intentioned parenting and self-esteem education -- were socialized to believe that we were special little snowflakes -- who were going to go out and save the world.
Video examples
Sea Salps PIPE National...
they pump water through their bodies to breathe catch food and move about as you can see there is diverse as snowflakes as beautiful as crystal chandeliers drifting gracefully through the oceans of the world
Video examples
Camille Seaman: Haunting...
on top of another snowflake, year after year. Icebergs are born when they calve off of glaciers or break off of ice shelves. Each iceberg has its own individual personality.
Video examples
When Family Secrets (And...
grandfather and i remembered him better than my father he had these eyelashes like snowflakes he said can i help you and i said that's david
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Brian Kemp
American Politician
You've seen it in the news - the radical left in our country, stinging from their 2016 election losses, has become increasingly desperate and unhinged. They want nothing more than to push their snowflake agenda on the entire nation, and our conservative Georgia values are under attack like never before.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.
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Rupi Kaur
Canadian Poet
I grew up thinking I was going to change the world, but not because I was treated like a special snowflake. It's a silly label. People are starving. We need to feed them. That's the end of the conversation.
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Mura Masa
Musician
What's wrong with being a snowflake? I think if you're calling someone a snowflake that just means you've been upset by something they're saying. We're all vulnerable, get over it.
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Jeanette Winterson
British Novelist
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
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Kate Bush
British Musician
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Quote examples
Feist
Canadian Musician
Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
Quote examples
Sophia Amoruso
American Businesswoman
You are not a special snowflake.
Quote examples
Brian Kemp
American Politician
You've seen it in the news - the radical left in our country, stinging from their 2016 election losses, has become increasingly desperate and unhinged. They want nothing more than to push their snowflake agenda on the entire nation, and our conservative Georgia values are under attack like never before.
Quote examples
Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.
Quote examples
Rupi Kaur
Canadian Poet
I grew up thinking I was going to change the world, but not because I was treated like a special snowflake. It's a silly label. People are starving. We need to feed them. That's the end of the conversation.
Quote examples
Mura Masa
Musician
What's wrong with being a snowflake? I think if you're calling someone a snowflake that just means you've been upset by something they're saying. We're all vulnerable, get over it.
Quote examples
Jeanette Winterson
British Novelist
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
Quote examples
Kate Bush
British Musician
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
Quote examples
Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
Quote examples
Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Quote examples
Feist
Canadian Musician
Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
Quote examples
Sophia Amoruso
American Businesswoman
You are not a special snowflake.
Example 1 of 10
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