Ice
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Definition
(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'.
Editor: Nettie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Frozen water.[2]. Concreted sugar, icing, frosting.[3]. Ice-cream.
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Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of ice, betokens much distress, and evil-minded persons will seek to injure you in your best work. To see ice floating in a stream of clear water, denotes that your happiness will be interrupted by ill-tempered and jealous friends. To dream that you walk on ice, you risk much solid comfort and respect for evanescent joys. For a young woman to walk on ice, is a warning that only a thin veil hides her from shame. To see icicles on the eaves of houses, denotes misery and want of comfort. Ill health is foreboded. To see icicles on the fence, denotes suffering bodily and mentally. To see them on trees, despondent hopes will grow gloomier. To see them on evergreens, a bright future will be overcast with the shadow of doubtful honors. To dream that you make ice, you will make a failure of your life through egotism and selfishness. Eating ice, foretells sickness. If you drink ice-water, you will bring ill health from dissipation. Bathing in ice-water, anticipated pleasures will be interrupted with an unforeseen event.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A substance frequently associated with a tumble in winter, a tumbler in summer, and a skate the year around.
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Examples
- The ice, you see, was broken between us--and I thought I would take care, on the next occasion, that Mr. Betteredge was out of the way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Muriate of ammonium 5 parts}| n t | Nitrate of potassium 5 parts}| y u | | r | Snow or pounded ice 12 parts}| e | Muriate of sodium 5 parts}| to -25° | . William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He brought the whiskey in a glass with ice and beside the glass on a tray a small bottle of soda. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The opening for putting in the ice, shown just under the pulley in the cut, has two doors with a space between; each door a foot thick. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He was isolated as if there were a vacuum round his heart, or a sheath of pure ice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On a card table a little way beyond the light was a silver icing-bucket with the necks and corks of two champagne bottles showing above the ice. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- General, why have we not had any ices? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They give one a lemon to squeeze into it, or iced milk, if he prefers it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Pictorial Story Of The Fishing Industry [Illustration: FISHING COMING ABOARD HALIBUT FISHING ICED UP BAITING UP Six pictures by courtesy of Gloucester (Mass. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She wanted an iced cocktail, of all things. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We drank dry white capri iced in a bucket; although we tried many of the other wines, fresa, barbera and the sweet white wines. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were other guests--all iced for the occasion, as it struck me, like the wine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Once in Portland, Maine, I ordered iced tea at an hotel. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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