ice

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Water in frozen (solid) form.

   • 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.

3. 3

   Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in…

   Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.

   • Neptune has one major moon: Triton, which is comparable in size to the Jovian moon Europa and at an average density of 2.061 g/cm³ widely understood to be covered by several hundred km of frozen or liquid ice.
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   1. 4

      Something having an extreme coldness of manner.

      • a heart of ice
      • Her eyes flash with anger, her voice ice. "You afraid of the law? You haven't changed. I want you out of my house now."
   2. 5

      Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction.

      • break the ice
   3. 6

      The area where a game of ice hockey is played.

   4. 7

      Icing

      Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").

   5. 8

      A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.

   6. 9

      An ice cream.

   7. 10

      An individual piece of ice.

   8. 11

      Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.

   9. 12

      An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.

   10. 13

       Money paid as a bribe.

       • 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.
       • 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.
   11. 14

       The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs, including methamphetamine.

       • Near-synonym: crystal meth
       • There were times when she could tell the Washingtons were overwhelmed by Jahlil's difficult ways, and one time Jessie even had the nerve to ask Carmiesha if she had smoked anything like crack or ice while she was pregnant with him.
   12. 15

       One or more diamonds.

       • But you can't give cred to anything dude says / Same dude to give you ice and you owe him some head
       • Ice on the wrist with the ice in the chains.
       • [She had] eaten a dinner at better than a hundred dollars a bite and she had enough ice on her ring finger to sink the Titanic. Maybe she really didn't have any morals. But she had a chance. And she was taking it.
   13. 16

       To become ice

       To become ice; to freeze.

   14. 17

       To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.

       • 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.
   15. 18

       To make icy

       To make icy; to freeze.

       • The bridge ices before the road.
   16. 19

       To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg)

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

   17. 20

       To put out a team for a match.

       • Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
   18. 21

       To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called…

       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.
   19. 22

       To murder.

       • Not long afterwards Wolf rings him up. 'I want you to ice someone for £15,000, he says. "No one you know."
   20. 23

       To defeat decisively.

       • Despite his vulnerabilities, Clinton managed to ice Dole in his 1996 reelection campaign for President.
   21. 24

       Abbreviation of Iceland.

   22. 25

       Initialism of Institution of Civil Engineers.

   23. 26

       Initialism of International Cultural Exchange.

   24. 27

       Acronym of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“law-enforcement agency responsible for…

       Acronym of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“law-enforcement agency responsible for immigration and customs matters of the United States Federal government”).

       • ICE agents were joined Sunday by officials from multiple Justice Department agencies as they targeted what they said are public safety and national security threats.
   25. 28

       Initialism of Intercity-Express (“German high speed train”).

   26. 29

       Acronym of internal combustion engine.

   27. 30

       Initialism of internal compiler error.

   28. 31

       Initialism of in-circuit emulator/emulation.

   29. 32

       Initialism of in-car entertainment.

   30. 33

       Acronym of ice, compress, elevation (first-aid).

   31. 34

       Initialism of intercontinental exchange.

   32. 35

       Acronym of iridocorneal endothelial syndrome.

   33. 36

       Initialism of in case of emergency, used in mobile phones followed by the number to call…

       Initialism of in case of emergency, used in mobile phones followed by the number to call if the phone’s owner is injured.

   34. 37

       To occupy a reserved electric car parking space (especially one equipped with a charger)…

       To occupy a reserved electric car parking space (especially one equipped with a charger) with a traditional car equipped with an internal combustion engine.

   35. 38

       To apprehend or deport by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

   36. 39

       To kill (in reference to and hypothetically by Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

   37. 40

       Initialism of isolated, confined, extreme.

       • Antarctica, like outer-space, is known as an ICE environment – isolated, confined and extreme – meaning unlike other isolated communities, the rate of change for its vocabulary can be slower.
   38. 41

       A surname.

   39. 42

       Alternative letter-case form of ICE.

       • David Huerta, president of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW, was serving as a community observer during an Ice raid in Los Angeles, and was arrested by federal agents over allegations of interfering.
   40. 43

       Antarctica.

       • Over three weeks in 2019, Kaefer spent time at three English-speaking Antarctic stations observing and gathering data from workers based on what the US station refers to as “The Ice”, or the British call the “South”.

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