icecap
IPA: ˈaɪskæp
noun
- Alternative form of ice cap [A permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, as for example in Earth's polar zones (polar ice) or at high elevation. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]]
ice cap
IPA: ˈaɪskæp
noun
- A permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, as for example in Earth's polar zones (polar ice) or at high elevation. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- (medicine, historical) An ice pack designed to be worn on the head. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- (food) Alternative spelling of iced capp [An iced coffee made by adding ice to a cappuccino.]
Examples of "icecap" in Sentences
Examples of "ice-cap" in Sentences
- The habitable planet, from ice-cap to ice-cap, will be inhabited.
- Think of the polar bear on a shrinking ice-cap or the boy with his hand up to the tank in Tiananmen Square.
- Mammoth icebergs are rendered with a palette knife, the polar weather is in gray washes, and drips and drops may—or may not—indicate ice-cap melting.
- A full-length trail marathon across the ice-cap and through Arctic desert and frozen tundra always promised to be tough ? and the Polar Circle marathon didn't disappoint.
- Vanaheim, long before those times I have memories (living memories) of earlier drifts, when, like thistledown before the breeze, we drifted south before the face of the descending polar ice-cap.
- Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.
- I must stand with the vast majority of climate scientists and their stolid progress through the data -- and with the Inuit on the front lines, currently watching the undeniable shrinking of the Arctic ice-cap, and seeing robins for the first time.
- Greenland is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with 56,450 people in 840,000 square miles although most of it is uninhabitable ice-cap ? so, like any town here, you only have to wander a few minutes in one direction to find yourself in pristine wilderness.
- It was formerly supposed that the immense accumulation of snow near the South Pole produced an ice-cap several miles in thickness which, creeping outward all round, terminated in the sea in vast ice-cliffs, such as those of Ross's Great Barrier, whence the huge flat-topped ice-islands broke off and floated away.