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(meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
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Producing cold; covered in ice.
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Submerged ice anchored to the bottom of a river etc., irrespective of how it formed.
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Synonym of synthetic ice
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Naled (sheet-like layered mass of ice).
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(Newfoundland) Ice formed by the action in winter of spray and waves along the shoreline, making a fringe or band on the landward side.
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Covered with, or as if with, a crust; encrusted.
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(by extension) Covered with a filmy layer.
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An expanse of ice covered with icebergs.
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(geology) A large crack or crevasse in a glacier where the glacier is pulling away from the mountain.
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of or related to icebergs
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A fragment of ice, larger than a growler but smaller than an iceberg proper.
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A smooth, barely visible, and dangerously slippery film of ice, usually over a dark surface, such as rock or pavement.
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Ice that is blue in colour, formed by compressed snow on a glacier having its air bubbles squeezed out.
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Broken fragments of ice.
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A patch of accumulated small fragments of floating ice (less than about 2 metres big)
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A formation of frozen brine, occurring beneath sea ice and analogous to a stalactite.
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A submerged, downward-projecting piece of ice.
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A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
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(transitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)
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a hollow or pond formed in a layer of snow or ice, commonly on the surface of a glacier or in polar regions, where a dark patch of cryoconite absorbs sunlight, generating heat so that it melts its way into the white, reflective ice.
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Former glacier ice that is no longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving, and becoming covered with sediments.
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ice formed in the polar seas in large surfaces, distinguished from icebergs
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A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snowcone slush is; can be hard or somewhat soft depending on recent and current weather conditions.
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A low, flat mass of floating ice.
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An accumulation of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
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Produced by rivers and lakes (especially alternately)
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(Canada, US) A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.
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(US, Canada) soft ice formed in water so turbulent that it cannot freeze solid
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Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.
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A similar group of ice crystals that forms on the surface of sea ice in calm conditions
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A raising of the level of the ground due to the freezing of moist soil
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Appearing to be covered in frost.
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Any pattern that resembles a frost formation.
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Having the appearance of ice.
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Meltwater which appears cloudy because glacial flour (rock flour) is suspended in it.
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(dated, formal) An ice rink.
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A type of floating ice formed from precipitation.
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Ice produced by the direct deposition of water vapor on grass, trees and other objects in freezing conditions.
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A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
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A type of ice resembling fine, silky hair, forming on dead wood in the presence of certain fungi.
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Alternative form of hard water [(chemistry) Water with a high concentration of dissolved minerals, especially calcium, making it difficult to lather with soap.]
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Covered with hoarfrost.
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The formation of hummocks in the collision of Arctic or Antarctic ice.
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(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
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Algae adapted to grow on ice, different species growing on freshwater and saltwater ice.
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a part of the Antarctic ice shelf that extends into the sea
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A receptacle containing ice and water (and sometimes salt) that is used to lower something's temperature, or to keep it cold
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a type of ice road, a causeway-like road across a body of water, made of full-depth ice, where from the road surface to the lakebed/riverbed is solid ice
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A permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, e.g. in Earth's polar zones or at high elevation. [from 19th c.]
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(winter, sculpture, amusements) An artificially created ice circle, made by cutting the winter floating ice sheet in a body of water, in a circle, and pushing it to spin.
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A phenomenon that occurs on rivers during winter, where floating ice caught in an eddying flow will rotate around, knocking off its distant edges, forming a floating revolving circular disk, slowing turning under the influence of the underlying vortex current; when the temperature conditions are not too warm, leading to ice breakup and fragility, and not too cool, freezing over the entire surface.
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Any small piece of ice used for cooling drinks, larger than crushed ice, regardless of their shape.
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(roofing) a mass of ice formed at the transition from a warm to a cold roof surface, frequently formed by refreezing meltwater at the overhang of a steep roof, causing ice and water to back up under roofing materials.
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A fern-like encrustation of frost found on windows in cold weather.
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a network of interconnected glaciers or ice streams having a common source
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Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
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(Norse mythology) An instance of a type of giants associated with coldness and iciness.
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A large block of ice with a narrow channel carved through it used to cool a beverage for drinking.
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(idiomatic) An ice queen; a beautiful but heartless woman.
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Alternative form of ice-minus [A genetically modified bacterium created from Pseudomona syringae that inhibits the formation of ice crystals, thereby making some crops more frost tolerant.]
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A large floating mass of ice; pack ice.
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A temporary structure, similar to a small palace or castle, made from blocks of ice.
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A type of winter road, built on frozen terrain and frozen bodies of water, with a road surface built from ice, typically reinforced by freezing applied water onto the top.
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(geology) a narrow ditch on a seabed caused by the movement of pack ice
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(sculpture) temporary, decorative sculpture carved from a block of ice
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A broad glacial mass with a relatively flat surface.
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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.
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A phenomenon which occurs at the interface of land and water when partial frozen over bodies of water with broken ice encounters a constant wind that blows onto shore, blowing the pieces of ice onto shore, and piling up, driving further inland. The ice shove can pile up and crush shoreside buildings or push them off their foundations.
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The practice of swimming in a gap or hole in the ice of an iced-over body of water.
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A long, narrow sheet of ice projecting out from a coastline, forming when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into a body of water.
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Cold water for drinking, either chilled in ice, or with the addition of ice cubes.
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a vertical wedge of subterranean ice
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Alternative spelling of ice cap [A permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, e.g. in Earth's polar zones or at high elevation. [from 19th c.]]
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covered with a layer of ice, e.g. water; frozen over
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Alternative form of ice foot [A ledge of ice that forms along the shoreline of the sea or of a great lake.]
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The annual thawing of winter ice on a body of water.
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Alternative form of ice shelf [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.]
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A belt of ice forming round the shores in Arctic regions.
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(figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.
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(of an area) Filled with icebergs.
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An atmospheric phenomenon resembling a rainbow but associated with ice crystals.
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Serving the purpose of breaking ice.
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Alternative spelling of ice field [a network of interconnected glaciers or ice streams having a common source]
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Alternative form of ice floe [Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.]
adj
Alternative form of ice-free [Free of all ice, not covered in ice.]
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(climatology) A cold state in global climate.
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The artificial formation of ice.
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(dated) A man in attendance at a frozen pond where skating etc. is going on.
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The melting of a geographical mass of ice.
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Made of or consisting of ice.
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Alternative form of ice sheet [A broad glacial mass with a relatively flat surface.]
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Alternative form of ice shelf [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.]
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Alternative form of ice spar [A variety of feldspar remarkable for its transparent ice-like crystals.]
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Alternative form of ice water [Cold water for drinking, either chilled in ice, or with the addition of ice cubes.]
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Art or building work using ice as a material.
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A drooping, tapering shape of ice.
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(rare) Of, pertaining to, bearing, or resembling icicles.
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Covered with ice, wholly or partially.
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Obsolete form of icicle. [A drooping, tapering shape of ice.]
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(Canada) Snow or fine ice floating on water.
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(geography) A geographic feature formed by the action of water or ice.
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The sludge that collects at the bottom (or walls) of an aquarium, consisting of fish excrement, decaying plant matter, and other assorted detritus
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A sheet-like layered mass of ice formed in freezing temperatures from the freezing of successive flows of ground water over previously formed layers of ice.
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(informal, chemistry, physics) two dimensional bilayer ice I, a phase of water ice that is two-dimensional and can shrink when frozen.
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Needle-shaped columns of ice formed from groundwater by capillary action when the soil's surface temperature is above freezing and the air's surface temperature is below freezing.
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Newly frozen sea ice in the form of a smooth sheet less than 10 centimeters (4 inches) thick.
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The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.
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(geology) A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.
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Covered with a frieze, or as if with a frieze.
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A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice.
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A form of ice that forms on water covered to some degree in slush.
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Ice in overlapping pieces in the sea.
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Permanently frozen ground, or a specific layer thereof.
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Needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.
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A groove made in the seafloor by a passing iceberg
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Alternative form of pykrete [A solid substance made of ice and sawdust, stronger than pure ice.]
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A solid substance made of ice and sawdust, stronger than pure ice.
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An icicle-shaped rust formation, formed on shipwrecks etc. by underwater microbes that consume iron.
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The situation where animals become trapped in sea ice.
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A fragment of a floe of ice.
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The finely crushed ice itself.
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(geography, glaciology) A rock formation created by glacial erosion.
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(glaciology, oceanography) Ice which is no longer supported by the water beneath it, and instead has a cavity underneath.
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(Antarctica, of ice or snow) Containing crevasses.
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Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
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(rare) Frozen water with physical characteristics intermediate between snow and ice, especially when used in constructing buildings (such as ice hotels) out of ice.
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snow and water mixed, or snow just melted
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(physics) Any crystalline material in which the behavior of the magnetic moments is analogous to the behavior of the protons in water ice.
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An icicle-shaped concretion.
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Adorned with pendants like icicles.
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Pieces of drift ice swept down in a current.
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A vertical hole in sea ice through which downward jet-like, buoyancy-driven drainage of flood water is thought to occur.
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Silt or sediment deposited from flowing water.
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(sports) A surface substitute for ice, allowing the use of ice sports equipment atop it; composed of high density polymers.
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a moraine left at the point of furthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet
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Crumbled ice mixed with water.
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(physics, chemistry) a phase of water ice which is two-dimensional, amorphous, and may shrink during freezing, unlike most forms of water ice
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(sciences, uncountable) Ice made of frozen water; water in a solid physical state, especially when distinguished from other frozen substances. Contrast liquid water, water vapor.
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Obsolete spelling of ice [(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.]
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sea ice, formed during the previous winter, slightly older than nilas
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