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
- The icecap is melting slowly every year.
- They eventually end up at the polar icecap.
- Three outlet glaciers extend from the icecap.
- The beer is brewed on meltwater from icecaps.
- This icecap is the thickest non glacial ice on earth.
- The Barnes icecap is in the central part of the island.
- Have you read the Washington Post article about Icecap
- The icecap of the glacier covers an active volcano called Katla.
- The flight started from Svalbard and crossed the icecap to Alaska.
- The icecap is a vast area of white wilderness, unspoiled and unknown, inhabited by polar bears and seals.
- Rely on the journal articles, not on the 'icecap' blog, for credible information you can check for yourself.
- In fact, they'll be seeing the southern polar icecap, the permanent icecap, which is capped by this frozen dry ice stuff.
- The expedition team successfully erected a new research station at Dome Argus (Dome A), the pole's highest icecap, which is 4,093 meters above sea level.
- Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year.
- We are given to believe that the polar icecap is receding, but if the polar icecap was receding August in our part of the world would be hot and dry as when the icecap receded, westerlies would move northward and high pressure systems from the south predominate.
- Antarctic icecap which is, for the most part, frozen determinedly rigid, Greenland in summer sits poised on the knife-edge between liquid and solid, a world of blues and whites, a landscape which in summer melts into fantastical sculptures which can last no longer than an afternoon.
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.