snow machine

A form of snowmachine — A machine that makes snow, such as a snowgun

Meanings

nounsnow machine (plural snow machines)

plural snow machines

  1. alternativeAlternative form of snowmachine.

    Whe went around the snow machine parked in front to the pickup truck behind it.

    1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 5
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    There are many ways to produce ice spheres, such as using liquid nitrogen, cold alcohol or kerosene. A newly designed snow machine consists of dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) and a spray nozzle shown as Figure 1.

    1997, I. Izumi, T. Nakamura, R.L. Sack, Snow Engineering: Recent Advances, →ISBN, page 139

    Not only have I used one snow machine to generate snow effects in a half-dozen shows, I have also used it with Mylar® and different types of paper to produce successful showers of blue rain and yellow drops of sunlight.

    2002, Bronislaw Joseph Sammler, Don Harvey, Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection, →ISBN

    Seeing his father get on the other snow machine, Zach took the helmet Sasha handed to him and worked to slip it on over his hat and hood.

    2011, J.A. Marlow, Into the Forest Shadows, →ISBN, page 200

    Praying Connie wouldn't spot her, Abby belted down the hillside, bouncing and sliding, engine roaring, and the track was getting closer and closer, and finally she decelerated and eased the snow machine over the lip of the bank and on to the track.

    2015, CJ Carver, Beneath the Snow, →ISBN

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