ice
IPA: ˈaɪs
noun
- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- (physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- (astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
- (figuratively) Something having an extreme coldness of manner.
- (ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- (now dialectal) Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
- (countable)
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- (UK, dated) An ice cream.
- (obsolete) An individual piece of ice.
- (crime, slang)
- Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
- An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
- Money paid as a bribe.
- One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds.
- (drugs) The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
- (computing) in-circuit emulator, in-circuit emulation
- A surname.
- (sports) Abbreviation of Iceland. [A country in the North Atlantic Ocean.]
- Initialism of Institution of Civil Engineers.
- (government, US) Initialism of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“law-enforcement agency responsible for immigration and customs matters of the United States Federal government”).
- (rail transport) Initialism of Intercity-Express (“German high speed train”).
- (automotive) Acronym of internal combustion engine, internal-combustion engine. [A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel.]
- (computing) Initialism of internal compiler error.
- Initialism of In Case of Emergency (used in mobile phones followed by the number to call if the phone’s owner is injured)
- (automotive) Initialism of in-car entertainment.
- Initialism of International Cultural Exchange.
- (medicine) Initialism of ice, compress, elevation (first-aid) [Water in frozen (solid) form.]
- Initialism of intercontinental exchange.
verb
- (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
- (transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage.
- (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
- (transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- (transitive, slang) To murder.
- (automotive, slang) To occupy a reserved electric car parking space (especially one equipped with a charger) with a traditional car equipped with an internal combustion engine.
Examples of "ice" in Sentences
- The gyre contains both ice and water.
- Snow and ice could snarl morning commute.
- The bait is paced into the water under the ice.
- The ice resembled floating circles in the water.
- The glacial zone is the area of permanent snow and ice.
- Almost all of the ice is below the surface of the water.
- The 2 cars worked well in the arduous ice and snow that year.
- However, measuring the thickness of the ice is a different issue.
- The ice machine didn't refrigerate the ice, just drained the water.
- The water will harden as ice crystals upon the surface of the banana.
- The melting point of ice and the boiling point of water are different.
- We chose the band name because I was so adamant against the name 'ice cream.'
- Lowther Island being covered with _broken packed ice, half-frozen sludge, and young ice_.
- If a substantial layer of ice is expected to accumulate from the freezing rain, an _ice storm_ is forecast.
- Add everything except the champagne and stir briefly with ice; strain into a punch bowl filled with lemon ice** and add chilled champagne.
- Neither do I think moraines of this kind would be formed by a glacier emerging from a steep narrow canyon and running out on a level plain; for in such cases, as soon as the confinement of the bounding walls is removed, the ice stream spreads out into an _ice lake_.
- It always seemed that there was a place to cross somewhere and even though it involved at times crossing very thin ice - salt water ice is different from fresh water ice in that when it's thin, it's quite rubbery, almost like wet cardboard - and it will bend when you walk on it.
- After much persuasion, I went on the ice myself; though not without considerable fear; yet such a favourite sport is this with the English, and so infatuated are some of these _ice players_, that nothing will deter them from venturing on those places which are marked as dangerous; and thus many perish, like moths that sacrifice themselves in the candle flame.