Ice
Ice (īs) , noun
[Old English is, iis, Anglo-Saxon īs; aksin to Dutch ijs, German eis, Old High German īs, Icelandic īss, Swedish is, Danish iis, and perh. to English iron.]
1.
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.
Water freezes at 32° F. or 0° Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it.
2.
Concreted sugar. — Johnson
3.
Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
4.
Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
Collocations (30)
Anchor ice , ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
Bay ice , ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea.
Ground ice , anchor ice.
Ice anchor (Nautical) , a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. — Kane
Ice blink , a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight.
Ice boat , (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
Ice box or Ice chest , a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.
Ice brook , a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] — Shakespeare
Ice cream , cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
Ice field , an extensive sheet of ice.
Ice float or Ice floe , a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller.
Ice foot , shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. — Kane
Ice house , a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
Ice machine (Physics) , a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
Ice master , See Ice pilot (below).
Ice pack , an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
Ice paper , a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé.
Ice petrel (Zoology) , a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
Ice pick , a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.
Ice pilot , a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master.
Ice pitcher , a pitcher adapted for ice water.
Ice plow , a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
Ice sludge , bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge.
Ice spar (Mineralogy) , a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite.
Ice tongs , large iron nippers for handling ice.
Ice water , (a) Water cooled by ice. (b) Water formed by the melting of ice.
Ice yacht , See Ice boat (above).
To break the ice , See under Break.
Water ice , a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored (usually with a fruit syrup), and frozen.<-- also called Italian ice? -->
ice (īs) , transitive verb
1.
To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.
2.
To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.; as, iced cupcakes with a pink icing look delicious.
3.
To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
4.
To kill. [slang]