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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.
Cognates
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /aɪs/
- (Canada, many US accents) IPA(key): [ʌɪs]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɪs
Noun[edit]
ice (countable and uncountable, plural ices)
- (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, OCLC 84758312, [Act III, scene i]:
- If thou doſt marry, Ile giue thee / This plague to thy dowry: / Be thou as chaſte as yce, as pure as ſnowe, / Thou ſhalt not ſcape calumny, to a Nunnery goe.
- 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[1], 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.
- (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.
- (UK, countable, dated) An ice cream.
- (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds and jewelry.
- 2002, “Blueprint²”, performed by Jay-Z:
- But you can't give cred to anything dude says / Same dude to give you ice and you owe him some head
- 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown[2], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
- Ice on the wrist with the ice in the chains.
- (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.
- 1960, United States. Congress, Congressional Record
- Theater operators, theater party agents, playwrights, and others who have ready access to tickets may get in on the “ice” and sometimes the producer is in on it too.
- 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.
- 1960, United States. Congress, Congressional Record
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- 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
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
ice (third-person singular simple present ices, present participle icing, simple past and past participle iced)
- (transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage.
- 2008, Deirdre Pitney, Donna Dourney, Triathlon Training For Dummies (page 240)
- To treat runner's knee, you need to rest from running or any other high-impact activity, ice the knee, and strengthen the quadriceps through weight training.
- 2008, Deirdre Pitney, Donna Dourney, Triathlon Training For Dummies (page 240)
- (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
- (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
- (transitive, slang) To murder.
- (transitive) 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to cool with ice
to freeze
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to murder
to cover with icing
ice hockey: to shoot an icing
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Further reading[edit]
- David Barthelmy (1997–2022), “Ice”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “ice”, in Mindat.org[3], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2022.
ice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
Hausa[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Saharan language; compare Dazaga idi.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
icḕ m (possessed form icèn)
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
īce
Manchu[edit]
Romanization[edit]
ice
- Romanization of ᡳᠴᡝ
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
ice (uncountable)
- Alternative form of is (“ice”)
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
ice
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of içar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of içar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of içar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of içar
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
ice
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