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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

... prompt answer, as one of them grasped the nickel-plated lever. The other and younger man turned to the ice-water tank, rinsed the tumbler that had just been used to such good purpose, poured out another stiff load of spirits, and with confident kindliness held it ...

— Under Fire • Charles King

... sat leisurely tasting her ice and watching with unflagging interest the people around her, she noticed that the dining-room was already three-quarters empty. People were leaving for cafe, theatre, ...

— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... months were employed in the tranquil journey of a caravan from Samarkand to Peking. Neither age nor the severity of the winter could retard the impatience of Timur; he mounted on horseback, passed the Sihun on the ice, marched seventy-six parasangs (three hundred miles) from his capital, and pitched his last camp in the neighborhood of Otrar, where he was expected by the angel of death. Fatigue and the indiscreet use ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... a small boudoir, possessing the latest appliances of civilisation. It contains another grand piano, a large apparatus for projecting moving pictures on a screen, and an ice-cream soda fountain with four taps, of the type one admires—but does not wish to possess—in the New York chemists' shops!! The Shah's, however, lacks three things,—the soda, the ice, ...

— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... a bit, and a'ter that he seemed more cur'ous than ever to hear all about it. I told him my third v'y'ge was to Canton, with a cargo of broom-corn, where we took in salmon and dun-fish for home. A'ter that we went to Norway with ice, and brought back silks and money. Our next run was to the Havana, with salt ...

— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

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