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Ice

noun

1.

Water frozen in the solid state. Synonym: water ice.

2.

The frozen part of a body of water.

3.

Diamonds. Synonym: sparkler.

4.

A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes. Synonyms: frosting, icing.

5.

A frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk). Synonym: frappe.

6.

An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant. Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash.

7.

A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine. Synonym: internal-combustion engine.

8.

A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating. Synonyms: ice-skating rink, ice rink.

verb

(past & past part. iced; pres. part. icing)

1.

Decorate with frosting. Synonym: frost.

2.

Cause to become ice or icy.

3.

Put ice on or put on ice.

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"Ice" Quotes from Famous Books

... explanation, he rose and went out, pausing at the door to take the ice which the servant was bringing in. The seat where he had left Senorita Rodriguez was vacant; so was the chair where Miss Thorne had been. He glanced about inquiringly, and a servant who stood stolidly near the ...

— Elusive Isabel • Jacques Futrelle

... with no diffusion or absorption of their heat, or light, on the way. It does not follow, however, that the temperature of the moon's surface must rise enormously. It may not even rise to the temperature of melting ice. Seeing there is no air there can be no check on radiation. The heat that the moon gets will radiate away immediately. We know that amongst the coldest places on the earth are the tops of very high mountains, the points ...

— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson

... suspicions," she said; "and I find they have not misled me. Twice already, I have warned you to let my niece alone. For the third, and last time, I tell you that she is as cold as ice. She will trifle with you as long as it flatters her vanity; and she will throw you over, as she has thrown other men over. Have your fling, you foolish fellow, before you marry anybody. Pay no more visits to this house, unless they are ...

— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins

... know for a fact exists in New York, on Seventh Avenue, just off Broadway, then I am a bad producer and do not know my business. I do not say there is no suggestion in realism; it is unwise to clutter the stage with needless detail. But we cannot idealize a little sordid ice-box where a working girl keeps her miserable supper; we cannot symbolize a broken jug standing in a wash-basin of loud design. Those are the necessary evils of a boarding-house, and I ...

— The Return of Peter Grimm • David Belasco

... in the heat of its own expression. The one is about as different from the other as the slowly moving glacier of the Alps is from the gaudily decorated and artificially frozen concoction of the ice-cream vendor. ...

— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford

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