Ice

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Ice, n. [OE. is, iis, AS. īs; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. īs, Icel. īss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and perh. to E. iron.].

•  Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.  [1913 Webster]

  " Water freezes at 32° F. or 0° Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it."  [1913 Webster]
•  Concreted sugar.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]
•  Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.  [1913 Webster]

Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground. -- Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea. -- Ground ice, anchor ice. -- Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial. -- Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. Kane. -- Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. -- Ice boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. -- Ice box or Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. -- Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. -- Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller. -- Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. Kane. -- Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice. -- Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid. -- Ice master. See Ice pilot (below). -- Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. -- Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zoöl.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. -- Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. -- Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master. -- Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water. -- Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice. <-- ice sculpture = a sculpture carved from a block of ice, often used for decorating restaurants. ice show an entertainment consisting of ice skaters performing figure-skating on a sheet of ice, usually in an arena, often accompanied by music. --> -- Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge. -- Ice spar (Min.), a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite. -- Ice tongs, large iron nippers for handling ice. -- Ice water. (a) Water cooled by ice. (b) Water formed by the melting of ice. -- Ice yacht. See Ice boat (above). -- To break the ice. See under Break. -- Water ice, a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored (usually with a fruit syrup), and frozen.<-- also called Italian ice? -->

Ice, v. t. 

•  To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Ice, abbr.
1 (in the UK) Institution of Civil Engineers.
2 internal-combustion engine.

Ice, n. & v.
--n.
1 a frozen water, a brittle transparent crystalline solid. b a sheet of this on the surface of water (fell through the ice).
2 Brit. a portion of ice-cream or water-ice (would you like an ice?).
3 sl. diamonds.
--v.
1 tr. mix with or cool in ice (iced drinks).
2 tr. & intr. (often foll. by over, up) a cover or become covered with ice. b freeze.
3 tr. cover (a cake etc.) with icing.

Idiom

ice age a glacial period, esp. in the Pleistocene epoch. ice-axe a tool used by mountain-climbers for cutting footholds. ice-bag an ice-filled rubber bag for medical use. ice-blue a very pale blue. ice-boat
1 a boat mounted on runners for travelling on ice.
2 a boat used for breaking ice on a river etc. ice-bound confined by ice.
ice-breaker
1 = ice-boat 2.
2 something that serves to relieve inhibitions, start a conversation, etc. ice bucket a bucket-like container with chunks of ice, used to keep a bottle of wine chilled. ice-cap a permanent covering of ice e.g. in polar regions. ice-cold as cold as ice. ice-cream a sweet creamy frozen food, usu. flavoured. ice-cube a small block of ice made in a refrigerator. ice-fall a steep part of a glacier like a frozen waterfall. ice-field an expanse of ice, esp. in polar regions. ice-fish a capelin. ice floe = FLOE. ice hockey a form of hockey played on ice with a puck. ice house a building often partly or wholly underground for storing ice. ice (or iced) lolly Brit. a piece of flavoured ice, often with chocolate or ice-cream, on a stick.
ice-pack
1 = pack ice.
2 a quantity of ice applied to the body for medical etc. purposes. ice-pick a needle-like implement with a handle for splitting up small pieces of ice. ice-plant a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, with leaves covered with crystals or vesicles looking like ice specks. ice-rink = RINK n. 1. ice-skate n. a skate consisting of a boot with a blade beneath, for skating on ice.
--v.intr. skate on ice. ice-skater a person who skates on ice. ice station a meteorological research centre in polar regions. on ice
1 (of an entertainment, sport, etc.) performed by skaters.
2 colloq. held in reserve; awaiting further attention. on thin ice in a risky situation.

Etymology

OE is f. Gmc

THESAURUS

Ice

Dry Ice, French ice cream, Freon, Italian ice, air-condition, air-cool, alabaster, ammonia, berg, bijouterie, billiard table, blast, blast-freeze, blast-frozen, blight, blot out, bowling alley, bowling green, bubble, bump off, calf, cap, carbon dioxide, chill, china, climax, congeal, congealed, consummate, cool, coolant, costume jewelry, crest, croak, crown, cryosphere, culminate, do in, eggshell, erase, ether, ethyl chloride, firn, fix, flat, floe, frappe, frazil, freeze, freeze solid, freezing mixture, freshen, frost, frostbitten, frostnipped, frozen, frozen custard, frozen dessert, frozen solid, frozen water, gelid, get, give the business, glace, glacial, glaciate, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glacify, glass, glass house, glaze, glazed frost, granular snow, ground ice, growler, gun down, hail, head, hit, house of cards, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cream, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice over, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, ice up, ice-cold, ice-cool, ice-cream cone, ice-cream soda, iceberg, icefall, icelike, icequake, icicle, icy, icy-cold, infrigidate, ivory, jewelry, jokul, junk jewelry, lay out, level, liquid air, liquid helium, liquid oxygen, lolly, mahogany, marble, matchwood, neve, nieve penitente, nip, off, old paper, outtop, overarch, overtop, pack ice, parchment, paste, peak, piecrust, plane, polish off, quick-freeze, quick-frozen, refreeze, refresh, refrigerant, refrigerate, regelate, rub out, satin, scatter pins, serac, settle, sharp-frozen, shelf ice, sherbet, silk, sleet, slide, slob, sludge, smooth, snow, snow ice, snow in, snow under, snowberg, sundae, surmount, take care of, tennis court, tip, top, top off, velvet, ventilate, waste, wipe out, zap

ROGET THESAURUS

Ice

Smoothness

N smoothness, polish, gloss, lubricity, lubrication, down, velvet, velure, silk, satin, velveteen, velour, velours, velumen, glass, ice, slide, bowling green, asphalt, wood pavement, flagstone, flags, roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill, sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander, flat iron, sad iron, burnisher, turpentine and beeswax, polish, shoe polish, lapidary, lapidary, lapidarian, smooth, polished, leiodermatous, slick, velutinous, even, level, plane, sleek, glossy, silken, silky, lanate, downy, velvety, glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled, smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil, slippery as an eel, woolly, smooth as silk, slippery as coonshit on a pump handle, slippery as a greased pig.

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.

Refrigeration

N refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature, cooling, congelation, conglaciation, ice, solidification, ice box (refrigerator), extincteur, fire annihilator, amianth, amianthus, earth- flax, mountain-flax, flexible asbestos, fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility), incombustibility, incombustibleness, (insulation), air conditioning, central air conditioning, air conditioner, fan, attic fan, dehumidifier, cooled, frozen out, cooling, frigorific.

VB cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice, congeal, freeze, glaciate, benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, damp, slack quench, put out, stamp out, extinguish, go out, burn out (incombustibility).

Refrigerator

N refrigerator, refrigeratory, frigidarium, cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory, icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox, cooler, damper, polyurethane cooler, wine cooler, freezer, deep freeze, dry ice freezer, liquid nitrogen freezer, refigerator-freezer, freezing mixture, ice, ice cubes, blocks of ice, chipped ice, liquid nitrogen, dry ice, dry ice-acetone, liquid helium.