Ice

[aɪs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk).

(noun.) the frozen part of a body of water.

(noun.) diamonds; 'look at the ice on that dame!'.

(noun.) water frozen in the solid state; 'Americans like ice in their drinks'.

(verb.) put ice on or put on ice; 'Ice your sprained limbs'.

(verb.) cause to become ice or icy; 'an iced summer drink'.

手打:内蒂--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4¡ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

(n.) Concreted sugar.

(n.) Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

(n.) Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.

(v. t.) To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.

(v. t.) To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.

(v. t.) To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

奥罗拉編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Frozen water.[2]. Concreted sugar, icing, frosting.[3]. Ice-cream.

卡莱尔編輯

解釋/意思:

n. water congealed by freezing: concreted sugar a frozen confection of sweetened cream or the juice of various fruits.—v.t. to cover with ice: to freeze: to cover with concreted sugar:—pr.p. ic′ing; pa.p. iced.—ns. Ice′-age (geol.) the glacial epoch its records included in the Pleistocene system the chief relics morainic materials boulder-clay or till believed to have been formed under glacial ice; Ice′-an′chor an anchor with one arm for securing a vessel to an ice-floe; Ice′-bird the little auk or sea-dove; Ice′blink the peculiar appearance in the air reflected from distant masses of ice; Ice′boat a boat used for forcing a passage through or being dragged over ice.—adj. Ice′-bound bound surrounded or fixed in with ice.—ns. Ice′-brook a frozen brook; Ice′-cream Iced′-cream cream sweetened or flavoured and artificially frozen.—adj. Iced covered with ice: encrusted with sugar.—n. Ice′-fall a glacier.—n.pl. Ice′-feath′ers peculiar feather-like forms assumed by ice at the summits of mountains.—ns. Ice′-fern the fern-like encrustation which is found on windows during frost; Ice′field a large field or sheet of ice; Ice′float Ice′floe a large mass of floating ice; Ice′foot a belt of ice forming round the shores in Arctic regions—also Ice′-belt Ice′-ledge Ice′-wall; Ice′house a house for preserving ice; Ice′-ī′sland an island of floating ice; Ice′man a man skilled in travelling upon ice: a dealer in ice: a man in attendance at any frozen pond where skating &c. are going on; Ice′pack drifting ice packed together; Ice′-pail a pail filled with ice for cooling bottles of wine; Ice′-plant a plant whose leaves glisten in the sun as if covered with ice; Ice′-plough an instrument for cutting grooves in ice to facilitate its removal; Ice′-saw a large saw for cutting through ice to free ships &c.; Ice′-spar a variety of feldspar remarkable for its transparent ice-like crystals; Ice′-wa′ter water from melted ice: iced water.—adv. Ic′ily.—ns. Ic′iness; Ic′ing a covering of ice or concreted sugar.—adjs. Ic′y composed of abounding in or like ice: frosty: cold: chilling: without warmth of affection; Ic′y-pearled (Milt.) studded with pearls or spangles of ice.—Break the ice (see Break).

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