Definitions of hoar in English
adjective
(1) Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
(2) Showing characteristics of age
(3) especially having gray or white hair
noun
(1) Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside
(2) Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
Examples of hoar in English
(1) There is still some depth hoar on the ground, but fairly consistent, and more importantly, frozen layers above.
(2) Depth hoar develops when a large, vertical temperature gradient causes vapour to sublime, diffuse and crystallize in a layer.
(3) Hector noticed spicules of rime adorning the packing-case shelves like fluffy moulds and hoar on his own beard.
(4) Everything - the trees, the ground, Guiromu00e9lans's clothes - is covered with a thick coat of hoar .
(5) These depth hoar complexes, as they are called, can usually be counted as annual layers in the top portion of the GISP2 core.
(6) Summer temperatures are hot in the sheltered valleys, winter temperatures fall well below zero and hoar frosts are common.
(7) Gertrude does speak of a willow which u2018grows askant the brook / That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.u2019
synonyms of hoar
grizzly
white-haired
gray
gray-haired
gray-headed
grey-haired
grey-headed
hoary
hoarfrost
rime
frost
Antonyms of hoar
modern
new
recent
