Ice
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English
Pronunciation
IPA: WEAE /aɪs/
Etymology
Old English is, iis, Anglo Saxon īs; akin to Dutch ijs, German Eis, Old High German īs, Icelandic īss, Swedish is, Danish iis, and perhaps to English iron.
Noun
ice
- water in frozen (solid) form.
- (physics/astronomy) any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- Frozen desert.
- Any substance having the apparence of ice.
- (Slang) one or more diamonds.
Translations
- Arabic: ثّلج
- Breton: skorn m
- Catalan: gel m
- Chinese: 冰
- Dutch: ijs n
- Ekspreso: glasio
- Esperanto: glacio
- Estonian: jää (1, 2)
- Finnish: jää (1, 2), jäädyke (3)
- French: glace f
- Frisian: iis n
- German: Eis n
- Indonesian: es
- Interlingua: glacie
- Italian: ghiaccio
- Japanese: 氷 (こおり, koori)
- Korean: 얼음 (eoreum)
- Latin: glacies f
- Latvian: ledus m
- Lithuanian: ledas m
- Norwegian: is
- Persian: یخ (yakh)
- Polish: lód m
- Portuguese: gelo
- Slovene: led m
- Spanish: hielo
- Swedish: is c
- Tagalog: yelo
- Volapük: glad
Related terms
- ice cube
- ice cream
- ice hockey
- ice pack
- ice pick
Verb
to ice
- to cool with ice, as a beverage.
- (Slang) to murder.
- To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg) to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.
Translations
- Finnish: jäädyttää (1); pistää kylmäksi (slang) (2), kuorruttaa (3)