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  • 11ice 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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  • 12ice — ice1 [ aıs ] noun *** 1. ) uncount water that has frozen and become solid: a block/lump of ice Ice was forming on the windshield. Ice covered most of the lake. a ) pieces of ice used for making drinks cold: a gin and tonic with plenty of ice b )… …

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  • 13ice up — phrasal verb ice over or ice up [intransitive] Word forms ice over : present tense I/you/we/they ice over he/she/it ices over present participle icing over past tense iced over past participle iced over to become covered with ice Drivers faced a… …

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  • 14ice — 1 /aIs/ noun 1 (U) water that has frozen into a solid state: Would you like some ice in your drink? | The wind blew the snow across the ice on the lake. | Her hands were as cold as ice. 2 keep/put something on ice to do nothing about a plan or… …

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  • 15ice — ice1 W3S2 [aıs] n [: Old English; Origin: is] 1.) [U] water that has frozen into a solid state →↑icy ▪ Would you like some ice in your drink? ▪ Her hands were as cold as ice. ▪ Spring flowers pushed through the slowly melting ice. ▪ The city… …

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  • 16Ice storm of December 2005 — The Ice storm of December 2005 was a damaging winter storm that produced extensive ice damage in a large portion of the Southern United States on December 14 16, 2005 while extensive snows were reported across portions of the Canadian provinces… …

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  • 17ice sheet — /ˈaɪs ʃit/ (say uys sheet) noun 1. a broad, thick sheet of ice covering an extensive area for a long period of time. 2. a mass of glacier ice that covers more than 50 000 square kilometres. Also, icesheet. The only current ice sheets (def. 2) are …

  • 18Ice shelf — An ice shelf is a thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland and Canada only. The boundary between the floating ice… …

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  • 19ice — Synonyms and related words: Dry Ice, French ice cream, Freon, Italian ice, air condition, air cool, alabaster, ammonia, berg, bijouterie, billiard table, blast, blast freeze, blast frozen, blight, blot out, bowling alley, bowling green, bubble,… …

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  • 20ice — I UK [aɪs] / US noun Word forms ice : singular ice plural ices *** 1) [uncountable] water that has frozen and become solid a block/lump of ice Ice was forming on the windscreen. Ice covered most of the lake. a) pieces of ice used for making… …

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