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ice `noun` [ ʌɪs ]

• frozen water, a brittle transparent crystalline solid.

• "she scraped the ice off the windscreen"

Similar: frozen water, icicle, iceberg, glacier, black ice, glaze, verglas, frost, rime,

• an ice cream, ice lolly, or portion of water ice.

Similar: ice cream, sorbet, water ice, sherbet,

• diamonds.

ice `verb`

• decorate (a cake or biscuit) with icing.

Similar: cover with icing, glaze, frost,

• clinch (something such as a victory or deal).

• kill.

• "she was saved from being iced by the mafia"

Origin: Old English īs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ijs and German Eis .

-ice `suffix`

• forming nouns such as service, police, and abstract nouns such as avarice, justice.

Origin: from Old French -ice, from Latin -itia, -itius, -itium, or from other sources by assimilation.

ICE `abbreviation`

• (in the US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

• (in the UK) Institution of Civil Engineers.

• internal combustion engine.

ICE `noun`

• an entry stored in a person's mobile phone that provides emergency contact information.

• "all mobile phone users should have an ICE contact in their phones"

Origin: early 21st century: acronym from in case of emergency .

break the ice

• do or say something to relieve tension or get conversation going in a strained situation or when strangers meet.

ice the puck

• shoot the puck from one's own half of the rink to the other end without it hitting the goal or being touched by a teammate, for which a face-off is awarded in one's own end.

on ice

• (of wine or food) kept chilled by being surrounded by ice.
"the champagne was already on ice"

on thin ice

• in a precarious or risky situation.
"you're skating on thin ice"

ice over

• become covered or blocked with ice.
"the wings iced over, forcing the pilot to dive"

ice noun [ ʌɪs ]

ice verb

-ice suffix

ICE abbreviation

ICE noun