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éé

[ ney-vey ]

noun

  1. granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.
  2. a field of such snow.


éé

/ ˈɛɪ /

noun

  1. Also calledfirn a mass of porous ice, formed from snow, that has not yet become frozen into glacier ice
  2. a snowfield at the head of a glacier that becomes transformed into ice
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

éé

/ - /

  1. The upper part of a glacier, consisting of hardened snow.
  2. The granular snow typically found in such a field.
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of éé1

1850–55; < Գ-ʰDZç < Vulgar Latin *Ծٳܳ, noun use of neuter of Latin Ծٳܲ snow-cooled, equivalent to niv- (stem of nix snow ) + -ٳܲ -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of éé1

C19: from Swiss French éé glacier, from Late Latin Ծٳܲ snow-cooled, from nix snow
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Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, director of Oxford's Wellbeing Research Centre, added: "In this era of social isolation and political polarisation we need to find ways to bring people around the table again - doing so is critical for our individual and collective wellbeing."

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At a dorm area by De Neve Drive, students stood on the street with packed bags and bright yellow moving carts, waiting for parents, Lyfts and Ubers to drive them to airports, friends’ homes in Northern California or out of the state.

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On Sunday afternoon, they played a game of horse at basketball courts off De Neve Drive while students nearby scurried to leave.

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“A year ago, after massive blast at #AlAhli Hospital, just questioning if Israeli forces might be responsible was to invite vilification. Today? So many hospitals, clinics, health professionals and patients have been targeted/killed in Gaza and Lebanon, it is impossible to keep track,” Alex Neve, international human rights lawyer and former Amnesty International Canada Secretary General, wrote last week during the sieges of the last three functioning hospitals in Gaza’s north.

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This study is part of an ongoing project to do that work and was co-authored with Jan-Walter De Neve of the University of Heidelberg, Omar Karlsson of Lund University in Sweden, Rajesh Kumar Rai of Harvard University and Sebastian Vollmer of the University of Göttingen.

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