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ice

  [ahys] noun, verb, iced, ic⋅ing, adjective
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–noun
1. the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
2. the frozen surface of a body of water.
3. any substance resembling frozen water: camphor ice.
4. a frozen dessert made of sweetened water and fruit juice.
5. British. ice cream.
6. icing, as on a cake.
7. reserve; formality: The ice of his manner betrayed his dislike of the new ambassador.
8. Slang.
a. a diamond or diamonds.
b. protection money paid to the police by the operator of an illicit business.
c. a fee that a ticket broker pays to a theater manager in order to receive a favorable allotment of tickets.
–verb (used with object)
9. to cover with ice.
10. to change into ice; freeze.
11. to cool with ice, as a drink.
12. to cover (cake, sweet rolls, etc.) with icing; frost.
13. to refrigerate with ice, as air.
14. to make cold, as if with ice.
15. to preserve by placing on ice.
16. Ice Hockey. (esp. in Canada) to put (a team) into formal play.
17. Slang.
a. to settle or seal; make sure of, as by signing a contract: We'll ice the deal tomorrow.
b. to make (a business arrangement) more attractive by adding features or benefits: The star pitcher wouldn't sign his new contract until the team iced it with a big bonus.
c. to kill, esp. to murder: The mobsters threatened to ice him if he went to the police.
18. Sports Slang. to establish a winning score or insurmountable lead in or otherwise assure victory in (a game or contest): Her second goal iced the game.
–verb (used without object)
19. to change to ice; freeze: The sherbet is icing in the refrigerator.
20. to be coated with ice (often fol. by up): The windshield has iced up.
–adjective
21. of or made of ice: ice shavings; an ice sculpture.
22. for holding ice and food or drink to be chilled: an ice bucket; an ice chest.
23. on or done on the ice: ice yachting.
—Idioms
24. break the ice,
a. to succeed initially; make a beginning.
b. to overcome reserve, awkwardness, or formality within a group, as in introducing persons: The chairman broke the ice with his warm and very amusing remarks.
25. cut no ice, Informal. to have no influence or importance; fail to impress: Her father's position cuts no ice with me.
26. ice it, Slang. stop it; that's enough: You've been complaining all day, so ice it.
27. ice the puck, Ice Hockey. to hit the puck to the far end of the rink, esp. from the defensive area across the offensive area.
28. on ice, Informal.
a. with a good chance of success or realization: Now that the contract is on ice we can begin operating again.
b. out of activity, as in confinement or imprisonment.
c. in a state of abeyance or readiness: Let's put that topic on ice for the moment.
29. on thin ice, in a precarious or delicate situation: You may pass the course, but you're on thin ice right now. Also, skating on thin ice.
Origin:
bef. 900; 1905–10 for def. 8a; ME, OE īs; c. G Eis, ON īss

Related forms:
iceless, adjective
icelike, adjective
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-ice

 
a suffix of nouns, indicating state or quality, appearing in loanwords from French: notice.
Origin:
ME -ice, -ise < OF < L -itius, -itia, -itium abstract n. suffix

Ice.

 
1. Iceland.
2. Icelandic.
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ice   (īs)   
n.  
  1. Water frozen solid.
  2. A surface, layer, or mass of frozen water.
  3. Something resembling frozen water: ammonia ice.
  4. A frozen dessert consisting of water, sugar, and a liquid flavoring, often fruit juice.
  5. Cake frosting; icing.
  6. Slang Diamonds.
  7. Sports The playing field in ice hockey; the rink.
  8. Extreme unfriendliness or reserve.
  9. Slang A payment over the listed price of a ticket for a public event.
  10. Slang Methamphetamine.
v.   iced, ic·ing, ic·es

v.   tr.
  1. To coat or slick with solidly frozen water.
  2. To cause to become ice; freeze.
  3. To chill by setting in or as if in ice.
  4. To cover or decorate (a cake, for example) with a sugar coating.
  5. Slang To ensure of victory, as in a game; clinch.
  6. Sports To shoot (the puck) from one's defensive half of an ice hockey rink across the opponent's goal line outside of the goal.
  7. Slang To kill; murder.
v.   intr.
To turn into or become coated with ice; freeze: The pond iced over.

[Middle English is, from Old English īs.]
ice'less adj.
ICE  
abbr.  
  1. internal-combustion engine
  2. International Cultural Exchange
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Ice

Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [=i]s; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. [=i]s, Icel. [=i]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and perh. to E. iron.]

1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[deg] C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it.

2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.

3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.

Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground.

Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea.

Ground ice, anchor ice.

Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial.

Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. --Kane.

Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight.

Ice boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.

Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.

Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] --Shak.

Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen.

Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.

Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller.

Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.

Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.

Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.

Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).

Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.

Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glac['e].

Ice petrel (Zo["o]l.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.

Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.

Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master.

Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.

Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.

Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge.

Ice spar (Min.), a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite.

Ice tongs, large iron nippers for handling ice.

Ice water. (a) Water cooled by ice. (b) Water formed by the melting of ice.

Ice yacht. See Ice boat (above).

To break the ice. See under Break.

Water ice, a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored, and frozen.

Ice

Ice\ ([imac]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iced ([imac]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Icing ([imac]"s[i^]ng).]

1. To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.

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

3. To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
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Language Translation for : ice
Spanish: hielo,
German: das Eis,
Japanese: 氷
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ice

n. [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novels: a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder). Hence, `icebreaker': a program designed for cracking security on a system.

Neither term is in serious use yet as of early 1999, but many hackers find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the future. In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with `ICE', an acronym for "in-circuit emulator".

In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers and computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic Experiment) in 1994. ICE is a consortium to promote uniform international access to strong cryptography.
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ice 
O.E. is "ice," from P.Gmc. *isa- (cf. O.N. iss, O.Fris. is, Du. ijs, Ger. Eis), with no certain cognates beyond Gmc. Slang meaning "diamonds" is attested from 1906. Ice cream is first recorded 1688 (as iced cream); icing in the sugary sense is from 1769; ice cube first recorded 1929. To break the ice "to make the first opening to any attempt" is from 1590, metaphoric of making passages for boats by breaking up river ice though in modern use usually with implications of "cold reserve."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: ice
Pronunciation: 'Is
Function: noun
1 : frozen water
2 : methamphetamine in the form of crystals of itshydrochloride salt C10H15N·HCl when used illicitly for smokingcalled also crystal meth
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ice   (īs)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A solid consisting of frozen water. Ice forms at or below a temperature of 0°C (32°F). Ice expands during the process of freezing, with the result that its density is lower than that of water.
  2. A solid form of a substance, especially of a substance that is a liquid or a gas at room temperature at sea level on Earth. The nuclei of many comets contain methane ice.

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ICE
1. in-circuit emulator.
2. Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics.
(2000-03-18)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Ice

frequently mentioned (Job 6:16; 38:29; Ps. 147:17, etc.). (See CRYSTAL.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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ice

see break the ice; cut no ice; on ice; on thin ice; put on ice; tip of the iceberg.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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ICE
  1. Institute for Christian Economics
  2. internal-combustion engine
  3. International Cultural Exchange
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