ice
English
Etymology
From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-Germanic *īsą (compare West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian is), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (compare Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”), Persian یخ (yax)),Kurdish qeş.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /aɪs/
- (Canada, New England, Midwestern US) IPA(key): /ʌɪs/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɪs
Noun
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 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.
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
- Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
- 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.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form.
- (countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- (Britain, countable, dated) An ice cream.
- (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds.
- (uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
- (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,
- (slang) Money paid as a bribe.
- 1970, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates
- This “ice” is bribe money paid to public officials to purchase protection for illegal activities. […] Just consider the “ice” money available to the men involved in the examples just cited.
- 1970, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates
Hyponyms
- anchor ice
- arena ice
- black ice
- blue ice
- brash ice
- choc ice
- dead ice
- drift ice
- dry ice
- Italian ice
- methane ice
- negative ice
- nitrogen ice
- pack ice
- pancake ice
- polar ice
- sea ice
- slob ice
- spin ice
- water ice
Derived terms
- break the ice
- cold as ice
- cut no ice
- de-ice
- deicer
- ice age
- ice ax
- ice axe
- ice bag
- iceball
- ice barrier
- ice bath
- ice bear
- iceberg
- iceblink
- iceblock
- ice blue
- ice boat
- icebound
- ice breaker
- ice bucket
- icecap
- ice cap
- ice chest
- ice cider
- ice-cold
- ice-covered
- ice cream
- ice cube
- ice dam
- ice dancing
- ice diving
- icedrop
- ice dwarf
- icefall
- ice field
- ice fish
- ice fishing
- ice floe
- ice fog
- ice foot
- ice fractal
- ice-free
- ice hockey
- icehouse
- ice jam
- ice kachang
- iceless
- icelike
- ice lolly
- ice luge
- icemaker
- iceman
- icemelt
- ice milk
- ice needle
- ice nucleus
- ice-out
- ice pack
- ice palace
- ice pellet
- ice pick
- ice plant
- ice point
- ice pop
- icequake
- ice queen
- ice racing
- ice resurfacer
- ice rink
- icescape
- ice scour
- ice scraper
- ice sculpture
- ice sheet
- ice shelf
- ice show
- ice skate
- ice skating
- ice storm
- iceteroid
- icetray
- iceward
- ice water
- iceways
- ice wedge
- ice wine
- ice worm
- ice yacht
- ice yachting
- icicle
- icy
- on ice
- on thin ice
- sea-ice
- sell ice to Eskimos
- stink on ice
- water-ice
Translations
water in frozen form
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frozen volatile chemical
frozen dessert
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substance having the appearance of ice
diamond — see diamond
crystal methamphetamine
Verb
ice (third-person singular simple present ices, present participle icing, simple past and past participle iced)
- To cool with ice, as a beverage.
- (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
- (transitive) To make icy; 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.
Translations
to cool with ice
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to freeze
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to murder
to cover with icing
ice hockey: to put a team on ice for a match
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ice hockey: to shoot an icing
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Further reading
- “Ice” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
- “ice”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
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