neve

«neve» in Mova's school dictionary: Névé: old, grainy snow on a glacier or high mountain that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (névé, névés — usually uncountable); fragment

meaning for a pupil

1) (science) Névé: old, grainy snow on a glacier or high mountain that has partly melted and refrozen, on its way to becoming glacier ice. tree →

2) It may also be a typing error for "never" or "nerve", or part of a name. tree →

sense in the lessons

A geography word about glaciers: fresh snow → névé (also called firn) → glacier ice. In English texts it is often written with an accent, névé, because it comes from French.

examples

• High on the mountain, the snow had turned to névé. tree →
• Névé is snow that is halfway to becoming ice. tree →
• The climbers crossed the hard névé early in the morning. tree →
• In geography we learned how snow becomes névé and then glacier ice. tree →
• Névé feels crunchy and grainy under your boots. tree →

note

A borrowed French word, pronounced "nay-VAY". Also called "firn". If you see "neve" in a text, check whether it is a typo for "never".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «neve» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.