ice
Meanings
- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- 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.
- Something having an extreme coldness of manner.
- Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction.
- The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- An ice cream.
- An individual piece of ice.
- Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
- An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
- To become ice; to freeze.
- To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.
- To make icy; to freeze.
- To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- To put out a team for a match.
- To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- To murder.
- To defeat decisively.
- Abbreviation of Iceland.
- Initialism of Institution of Civil Engineers.
- Initialism of International Cultural Exchange.
- Acronym of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“law-enforcement agency responsible for immigration and customs matters of the United States Federal government”).
- Initialism of Intercity-Express (“German high speed train”).
- Acronym of internal combustion engine.
- Initialism of internal compiler error.
- Initialism of in-circuit emulator/emulation.
- Initialism of in-car entertainment.
- Acronym of ice, compress, elevation (first-aid).
- Initialism of intercontinental exchange.
- Acronym of iridocorneal endothelial syndrome.
- Initialism of in case of emergency, used in mobile phones followed by the number to call if the phone’s owner is injured.
- To occupy a reserved electric car parking space (especially one equipped with a charger) with a traditional car equipped with an internal combustion engine.
- To apprehend or deport by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- To kill (in reference to and hypothetically by Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
- Initialism of isolated, confined, extreme.
- A surname.
- Alternative letter-case form of ICE.
- Antarctica.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der. Proto-Germanic *īsą Proto-West Germanic *īs Old English īs Middle English is English ice From Middle English hyse, hyys, ice, ijs, is, yce, ys, yys, from Old English īs, from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Iis, is (“ice”), Saterland Frisian Ies (“ice”), West Frisian iis (“ice”), Alemannic German Iis, isch, éisch (“ice”), Bavarian, Cimbrian, and Mòcheno ais (“ice”), Dutch ijs (“ice”), German Eis (“ice”), German Low German Ies (“ice”), Luxembourgish Äis (“ice”), Vilamovian ajs (“ice”), Yiddish אײַז (ayz, “ice”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish is (“ice”), Elfdalian ais (“ice”), Faroese ísur (“ice”), Icelandic ís (“ice”); also Cornish yey (“ice”), yeyn (“cold”), Irish oighear (“ice”), Scottish Gaelic deigh, eigh, eighre (“ice”), Welsh iâ (“ice”), Lithuanian ýnis (“hoar frost”), Bulgarian and Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoar frost”), Czech jíní (“frost”), Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian и́ње (“hoar frost”), Ukrainian і́ній (ínij, “hoar frost, rime”), Ossetian их (ix, “ice”), Armenian եղյամ (eġyam, “frost, hoar frost, rime”), Persian یخ (yax, “ice”), Hittite 𒂊𒃷 (“ice”). Superseded non-native Middle English glace (“ice”), borrowed from Old French glace (“ice”).