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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]
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.
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.
--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.
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, zapROGET 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.Also see definition of "ice" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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