ice

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See also: Ice, ICE, icé, íce, ìce, -ice, Ice., and Appendix:Variations of "ice"

Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

ice

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Icelandic.

English[edit]

Ice.

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.

Cognates
See also West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Swedish Norwegian is); also Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”), Persian یخ‎ (yax), Northern Kurdish qeş.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /aɪs/
  • (Canada, many US accents) IPA(key): [ʌɪs]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (London)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun[edit]

ice (countable and uncountable, plural ices)

  1. (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
      If thou doſt marry, Ile giue thee / This plague to thy dowry: / Be thou as chaſte as yce, as pure as ſnowe, / Thou ſhalt not ſcape calumny, to a Nunnery goe.
    • 1882, Popular Science Monthly (volume 20), "The Freezing of a Salt Lake"
      It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject.
    • 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
      Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
  2. (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
  3. (uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
    • 2010 March 15, Lance K. Erickson, Space Flight: History, Technology, and Operations, Government Institutes, →ISBN, page 145:
      Above the core is the lower-density liquid mantle composed of ice materials under high pressure and temperature. This massive liquid layer would not be separated into layers of traditional ice compounds, but mixtures of radically different compounds originally consisting of water, carbon dioxide, methane, and ammonia […] Since the mass of the planet is dominated by the liquid mantle that itself consists of heated ices under pressure, both Uranus and Neptune are classified as giant ice planets.
    • 2010 December 2, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Principles of Planetary Climate, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 20:
      Uranus and Neptune are […] usually classified separately as ice giants because they contain a much higher proportion of ice-forming substances such as water, ammonia, and methane. […] In the case of Uranus, the ice mantle must make up between 9.3 and 13.4 Earth masses worth of the total mass of the planet, which is 14.5 Earth masses. Similar proportions apply to Neptune. The commonly used term "ice mantle" is someone misleading, since the substance is actually a hot, slushy mixture that would be more aptly described as a water–ammonia ocean.
    • 2022, Geophysical Exploration of the Solar System, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 45:
      Neptune has one major moon: Triton, which is comparable in size to the Jovian moon Europa and at an average density of 2.061 g/cm3 widely understood to be covered by several hundred km of frozen or liquid ice.
  4. (countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
  5. (UK, countable, dated) An ice cream.
  6. (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
  7. (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds.
    • 2002, “Blueprint²”, performed by Jay-Z:
      But you can't give cred to anything dude says / Same dude to give you ice and you owe him some head
    • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎[2], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
      Ice on the wrist with the ice in the chains.
  8. (uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
  9. (uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
    • 2006, CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,
      The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice. They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.
  10. (uncountable, slang) Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
  11. (uncountable, slang) An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
  12. (slang) Money paid as a bribe.
    • 1960, United States. Congress, Congressional Record:
      Theater operators, theater party agents, playwrights, and others who have ready access to tickets may get in on the “ice” and sometimes the producer is in on it too.
    • 1970, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates:
      This “ice” is bribe money paid to public officials to purchase protection for illegal activities. […] Just consider the “ice” money available to the men involved in the examples just cited.

Hyponyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

some may also be Derived terms

Descendants[edit]

  • Bislama: aes
  • → Brunei Malay: ais
  • → Japanese: アイス (aisu)
  • → Korean: 아이스 (aiseu)
  • → Malay: ais
  • → Marshallese: aej, aij
  • → Sinhalese: අයිස් (ayis)
  • → Tokelauan: aiha

Translations[edit]

See ice/translations § Noun.

Verb[edit]

ice (third-person singular simple present ices, present participle icing, simple past and past participle iced)

  1. (transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage.
    • 2008, Deirdre Pitney; Donna Dourney, Triathlon Training For Dummies, page 240:
      To treat runner's knee, you need to rest from running or any other high-impact activity, ice the knee, and strengthen the quadriceps through weight training.
  2. (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
  3. (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
  4. (transitive, slang) To murder.
  5. (transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
  6. (ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
    Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
  7. (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
    If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Ice”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “ice”, in Mindat.org‎[3], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.
  • ice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams[edit]

Hausa[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain, perhaps from a Saharan language; compare Dazaga idi.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ʔí.t͡ʃèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʔɪ́.t͡ʃèː]

Noun[edit]

icḕ m (possessed form icèn)

  1. wood
  2. tree
  3. stick

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

īce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of īciō

Manchu[edit]

Romanization[edit]

ice

  1. Romanization of ᡳᠴᡝ

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

ice (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of is (“ice”)

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

ice

  1. inflection of içar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Salar[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *ēče. Cognate with Turkish ece, Turkmen eje (“mother”), Shor иче, etc.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Mengda, Chahandusi, Qingshui, Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [iʝɑ]
  • (Mengda, Ejia, Daowei, Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [iʝe]
  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Ejia, Daowei, Qingshui, Hanbahe, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [iʝi]
  • (Qingshui, Hanbahe, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [iʝæ]
  • (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [iʝy]
  • (Hanbahe, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [iʒe], [iʒɑ]
  • (Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [iʒi]
  • (Wajiang zhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [iʒu]
  • (Qingshui, Hanbahe, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [itʃi], [itʃa]

Noun[edit]

ice (3rd person possessive icesi, plural iceler)

  1. mother
    Synonym: ama

References[edit]

  • Potanin, G.N. (1893), “иджа”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 428
  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ica, ice, icü...”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 335, 336, 342
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “iʝɑ”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 117
  • 张, 进锋 (Ayso Cañ Cinfen) (2008), 乌璐别格 (Ulubeğ), 鄭初陽 (Çuyañ Yebey oğlı Ceñ), editors, Salar İbret Sözler 撒拉尔谚语 [Salar Proverbs]‎[4], China Salar Youth League, page 3-4
  • 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985), “idʒɑ”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 126
  • Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “ija”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 137
  • 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016), “ijɑ”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 271

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈiθe/ [ˈi.θe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈise/ [ˈi.se]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -iθe
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -ise
  • Syllabification: i‧ce
  • Homophone: hice

Verb[edit]

ice

  1. inflection of izar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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