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snowflaking

snowflaking is the present participle and gerund of snowflake.

Meaning of snowflake

Verb

snowflake (third-person singular simple present snowflakes, present participle snowflaking, simple past and past participle snowflaked)

  1. To fall in the manner of a snowflake.
    • Like a seagull swooping, the white figure of a victim snowflaked against the cliff and then plummeted down.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 143
  2. To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.

See all 11 meanings of snowflake

Questions about snowflaking

What is snowflaking the present participle and gerund of?
Snowflaking is the present participle and gerund of snowflake.

Words near snowflaking in the dictionary

  1. snowflakelike
  2. snowflakeness
  3. snowflakery
  4. snowflakes
  5. snowflakey
  6. snowflaking
  7. snowflakings
  8. snowflaky
  9. snowfleck
  10. snowflecks
  11. snowflick

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