Ice Definition
ice
See also ICE, -ice, ìce, and icé
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English
Ice.Etymology
From Middle English is, from Old English īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsan (compare West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Eis, Swedish is), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eiH- (compare Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian иней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”)).
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Noun
Wikipedia has an article on: IceWikipedia ice (countable and uncountable; plural ices)
- (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
- 1882, Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, The Freezing of a Salt Lake
- It seems that in this lake (Kupalnoze) there is such a diffusion of salt toward the lower stratum of water, even before the freezing begins, otherwise it would be difficult to explain how colder water might remain on the surface, were it not for the greater amount of salt in the lower strata. It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject. The lake, however, contains too much salt to afford a sure standard of comparison with oceanic water.
- 1882, Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, The Freezing of a Salt Lake
- (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- (countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds.
- (uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of methamphetamine.
- (uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- 2006, CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,
- The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice. They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.
- 2006, CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,
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Verb
ice (third-person singular simple present ices, present participle icing, simple past and past participle iced)
- To cool with ice, as a beverage.
- To become ice, to freeze.
- (slang): To murder.
- To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- (ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
- Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
- (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.
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Translations
to cool with ice
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Latin
Verb
īce
- second-person singular present active imperative of īciō
Spanish
Verb
ice (infinitive izar)
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of izar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of izar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of izar.
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