ice meaning

• Noun: ice  Is
  1. Water frozen in the solid state
     "Americans like ice in their drinks"
     - water ice 
  2. The frozen part of a body of water 
  3. Diamonds
     "look at the ice on that dame!"
     - sparkler 
  4. A flavoured sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
     - frosting, icing 
  5. A frozen dessert with fruit flavouring (especially one containing no milk)
     - frappé 
  6. An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
     - methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, shabu, trash 
  7. A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating
     "the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice"
     - ice rink, ice-skating rink
  Verb: ice  Is
  1. Decorate with frosting
     - frost 
  2. Cause to become ice or icy
     "an iced summer drink" 
  3. Put ice on or put on ice
     "Ice your sprained limbs"
  Noun: ICE
  1. A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine
     - internal-combustion engine

  Derived forms: ices, iced, icing

  See also: icy

  Type of: amphetamine, chill, controlled substance, cool, cool down, cover, crystal, diamond, freeze, frozen dessert, heat engine, object, pep pill, physical object, rink, skating rink, speed, topping, upper

  Part of: automotive vehicle, glacier, ice cube, motor vehicle, motorboat, powerboat

  Encyclopedia: ICE ICE, the drug of power

  Ice Ice, Ice Baby

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  [American slang]
  tr. to kill someone; to kill an informer. (Underworld.)
  • Mr. Big ordered Bruno to ice you-know-who.
  • Somebody set out to ice Tracy—the dirty squealer.
  
  
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  [British slang]
  Noun. Diamonds or more generally jewellery. [Orig. U.S.]
  
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  [Architecture]
  

  Abbr. for the “Institution of Civil Engineers,” London.


[Defence]
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  [Medicine]
  n
  1 : frozen water
  2 : methamphetamine in the form of its hydrochloride salt C₁₀H₁₅N·HCl when used illicitly for smoking
  
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  [Oil and gas]
  Independent Completions Engineering
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  [Computer]
  1. <electronics> in-circuit emulator.
  
  2. <security, jargon> Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics.

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Examples

1. the lorry skidded on a stretch of black ice.
2. their refusal iced our enthusiasm.
3. the ice is too thin to bear your weight.
4. they ate raspberry tarts and ice cream.
5. catherine had been ice up to this moment.