Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [imac]s; aksin to D.
ijs, G. eis, OHG. [imac]s, Icel. [imac]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis,
and perh. to E. iron.]
1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state
by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent
colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal.
Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[deg] C.
being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
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Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice
melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
it.
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2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.
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3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and
artificially frozen.
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4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor
ice.
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Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
extensive fields which drift out to sea.
Ground ice, anchor ice.
Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
Glacial.
Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
field of ice. --Kane.
Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
yet in sight.
Ice boat.
(a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
ice by sails; an ice yacht.
(b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
Ice box or Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in
which things are kept cool by means of ice; a
refrigerator.
Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic]
--Shak.
Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.
Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to
an ice field, but smaller.
Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.
Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice
artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).
Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
reproducing; papier glac['e].
Ice petrel (Zool.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of
the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
pieces.
Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
also ice master.
Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.
Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ice \ice\ ([imac]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. iced ([imac]st); p.
pr. & vb. n. icing ([imac]"s[i^]ng).]
1. To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something
resembling ice.
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2. To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or
white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.; as, iced
cupcakes with a pink icing look delicious.
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3. To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
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4. To kill. [slang]
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ice
n 1: water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in
their drinks" [syn: ice, water ice]
2: the frozen part of a body of water
3: diamonds; "look at the ice on that dame!" [syn: ice,
sparkler]
4: a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
[syn: frosting, icing, ice]
5: a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one
containing no milk) [syn: ice, frappe]
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 [syn:
methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride,
Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chickenfeed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash]
7: 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 [syn: internal-combustion engine, ICE]
8: a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating;
"the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice" [syn:
ice rink, ice-skating rink, ice]
v 1: decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: frost,
ice]
2: cause to become ice or icy; "an iced summer drink"
3: put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs"
Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
ICE
Information and Content Exchange [protocol] (XML)
Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
ICE
In-Circuit-Emulation
Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
ICE
Internal Compiler Error (GCC)
Source: The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
ice
n.
[coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk
SF novels: a contrived acronym for ?Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics?]
Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion
by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder). Hence,
icebreaker: a program designed for cracking security on a system.
Neither term is in serious use yet as of late 2003, but many hackers find
the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the future.
In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with ?ICE?, an
acronym for ?in-circuit emulator?.
In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers and
computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic Experiment) in
1994. ICE is a consortium to promote uniform international access to strong
cryptography.
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 July 2010)
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