Ice

  • 101ice — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English is, from Old English īs; akin to Old High German īs ice, Avestan isu icy Date: before 12th century 1. a. frozen water b. a sheet or stretch of ice 2. a substance resembling ice;… …

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  • 102ICE — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom.   Sigles d’une seule lettre   Sigles de deux lettres > Sigles de trois lettres   Sigles de quatre lettres …

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  • 103ice*/*/ — [aɪs] noun [U] I water that has frozen and become solid a block/lump of ice[/ex] Ice was forming on the windscreen.[/ex] a drink with plenty of ice[/ex] • break the ice to make people feel more relaxed and ready to talk, for example at the… …

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  • 104ice — 1. n. diamonds; jewels. (Underworld.) □ That old dame has tons of ice in her hotel room. □ Look at the ice on her! 2. n. cocaine; crystalline cocaine. (Drugs.) □ Max deals mostly in ice, but can get you almost anything …

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  • 105ice ax — noun an ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice • Syn: ↑ice axe, ↑piolet • Hypernyms: ↑ax, ↑axe * * * noun : a mountain climbing tool that has a pick and adze at one end of a shaft and a spike or a ferrule at the other end and… …

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  • 106ice up — verb become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane • Syn: ↑frost over, ↑ice over • Hypernyms: ↑change • Entailment: ↑freeze …

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  • 107ICE S — Infobox Locomotive name=ICE S powertype=electric caption=ICE S on the Nuremberg–Munich high speed line in 2005 builder=Siemens, DWA, AEG, Adtranz topspeed=400 km/h (250 mph) poweroutput=powerheads 2×4,800 kW powered carriages 2×2,00kW weight=325… …

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  • 108ice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. frost, rime; glacier; sherbet; icicle; slang, diamonds. v. freeze, chill. See cold. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. frost, crystal, hail, icicle, glacier, floe, ice cube, dry ice, black ice, white ice, chunk… …

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  • 109ice — {{11}}ice (n.) O.E. is ice (also the name of the rune for i ), from P.Gmc. *isa (Cf. O.N. iss, O.Fris. is, Du. ijs, Ger. Eis), with no certain cognates beyond Germanic, though possible relatives are Avestan aexa frost, ice, isu frosty, icy;… …

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  • 110ice — noun 1》 frozen water, a brittle transparent crystalline solid.     ↘chiefly Brit. an ice cream or water ice. 2》 informal diamonds. verb 1》 decorate with icing. 2》 (usu. ice up/over) become covered or blocked with ice. 3》 N. Amer. informal clinch… …

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