Ice - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- diamonds
- a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk) (syn: frappe)
- 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 (syn: chalk, crank, glass, methamphetamine, trash)
- 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
- a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating
verb
- cause to become ice or icy
Extra examples
The steps were coated with ice.
Ice formed on the car's windows.
The ice melted quickly in the hot sun.
She skated out onto the ice.
He almost fell through a hole in the ice.
Fill the glass with ice.
He gave her some ice for her birthday.
Ice the glasses before you fill them.
...with that win, the team has pretty much iced a spot in the play-offs...
Ice forms.
Ice melts.
The lake usually ices over by mid-January.
Would you like some ice in your drink?
Her hands were as cold as ice.
Spring flowers pushed through the slowly melting ice.
Phrasal verbs
Word forms
I/you/we/they: ice
he/she/it: ices
present participle: icing
past tense: iced
past participle: iced
singular: ice
plural: ices
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