ice agen.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪs eɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈaɪs ˌeɪdʒ/

Forms: also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: ice n., age n.

Etymology: < ice n. + age n., after German Eiszeit (K. F. Schimper 1837, in Verhandl. der Schweiz. Naturforsch. Ges. 38). Compare earlier ice period n. at ice n. Compounds 8, ice time n.

1. Geology and Climatology. A period when large areas of the earth were covered with ice; a glacial episode (cf. glacial adj. 3), esp. any of those which affected the northern hemisphere during the Pleistocene epoch. Also (esp. in the Ice Age): this series of episodes as a whole. Cf. ice period n. at ice n. Compounds 8.little ice age: see little ice age n. at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1d.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > ice-age or glaciation

ice time1841

boulder-period1845

glacial epoch1846

ice age1855

stage1895

little ice age1939

1844 W. Howitt German Experiences vii. 91 The ‘Ice-time’, which certain continental philosophers contend to have in some former age reigned over and bound up in frozen death, this planet, has actually seized on Germany.]

1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 22 In the ‘Ice age’ (Glacial Epoch, as the big-word-mongers call it) there was above that cliff a great nevé, or snowfield, such as you have seen often in the Alps at the head of each glacier.

1873 J. Geikie (title) The Great Ice Age.

1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 319 Ice Ages and Genial Ages must have alternated in each hemisphere.

1925 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization i. 11 The..Lingby culture..belongs to the end of the ice-age or the very beginning of the Ancylus period.

1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe iv. 265 He was studying the strata of the last Ice Age.., when..folk looked out from their mountain eyries and saw the peaks and the glaciers come.

1974 D. Sears Lark in Clear Air 55 Country that several glaciers and ice ages had pawed over in the last hundred thousand years.

1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside Pref. p. xiv There have been at least five previous interglacials, spaced out between Ice Ages over the last million years.

2007 H. Svensmark & N. Calder Chilling Stars i. 23 The great warming that terminated the ice age was interrupted about 13,000 years ago by a severe re-chilling called the Younger Dryas.

2. A cold period occurring on another planet.

ΚΠ

1893 N.Y. Commerc. Advertiser 14 Jan. 5/1 The ages of incrustation of the sun, when the planet Venus was yet a ring and hid the sun's face, were the ice age on this earth, and by consequence on each of the other planets, etc.

1952 Galaxy Sci. Fiction Dec. 100/2 Then it would be Venus's turn, and after that Earth would fall into the Sun to end an Ice Age on Mars.

1972 Pop. Sci. Sept. 126 I propose..that there are epochs in Martian history in which conditions are very different from today, that in fact we are examining Mars in an ice age.

2010 P. Schenk Atlas Galilean Satellites v. 41 Far from being locked in a perpetual ice age, Io is a Hadean world of hot volcanic lava flows, fiery lava fountains, and noxious gases.

3. In extended use and figurative. A period of extreme coldness, esp. in relations between people, states, etc.

ΚΠ

1935 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 180 190/1 Another..war in which civilization will surely perish and a new ice age in international relations set in.

1966 Listener 10 Mar. 338/2 With..the certainty by 1950 that America and Russia both possessed atomic weapons, the world entered the new ice-age of the cold war between the big two.

1973 A. Price October Men ix. 122 The temperature was perhaps slightly less arctic now he had said his piece, but that was no sure sign that a second..ice age was not about to set in.

2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 July (Central ed.) a14/1 Nicholas I..cut Russia off from the West for 30 years and strengthened the authoritarian bureaucracy and secret police. The era is called Russia's ‘ice age’.

Compounds

General attributive and parasynthetic. Frequently hyphenated.

ΚΠ

1875 Rec. Geol. Surv. India 8 18 The evidences for the glacial origin of these deposits is as conclusive as that for the ice-age formations of Europe.

1927 Daily Express 31 Aug. 5 The survival of some ice-age relicts in the freshwater fauna of Cardiganshire.

1957 C. Day Lewis Pegasus 24 Cold chisels of wind, ice-age-edged.

1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 13/2 People hunting mammoths on the shores of Ice Age lakes..left ivory spearheads.

1979 D. L. Dineley Fossils ii. 56 Deposits formed under ice-age conditions have assemblages like those associated with present-day northland floras.

2005 M. Bjornerud Reading Rocks Prol. 3 Backhoes uncovered a layer of spruce twigs and branches more than twenty feet down—vestiges of an Ice Age forest.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ice age
释义	ice agen. Brit. /ˈʌɪs eɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈaɪs ˌeɪdʒ/ Forms: also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: ice n., age n. Etymology: < ice n. + age n., after German Eiszeit (K. F. Schimper 1837, in Verhandl. der Schweiz. Naturforsch. Ges. 38). Compare earlier ice period n. at ice n. Compounds 8, ice time n. 1. Geology and Climatology. A period when large areas of the earth were covered with ice; a glacial episode (cf. glacial adj. 3), esp. any of those which affected the northern hemisphere during the Pleistocene epoch. Also (esp. in the Ice Age): this series of episodes as a whole. Cf. ice period n. at ice n. Compounds 8.little ice age: see little ice age n. at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > ice-age or glaciation ice time1841 boulder-period1845 glacial epoch1846 ice age1855 stage1895 little ice age1939 1844 W. Howitt German Experiences vii. 91 The ‘Ice-time’, which certain continental philosophers contend to have in some former age reigned over and bound up in frozen death, this planet, has actually seized on Germany.] 1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 22 In the ‘Ice age’ (Glacial Epoch, as the big-word-mongers call it) there was above that cliff a great nevé, or snowfield, such as you have seen often in the Alps at the head of each glacier. 1873 J. Geikie (title) The Great Ice Age. 1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 319 Ice Ages and Genial Ages must have alternated in each hemisphere. 1925 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization i. 11 The..Lingby culture..belongs to the end of the ice-age or the very beginning of the Ancylus period. 1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe iv. 265 He was studying the strata of the last Ice Age.., when..folk looked out from their mountain eyries and saw the peaks and the glaciers come. 1974 D. Sears Lark in Clear Air 55 Country that several glaciers and ice ages had pawed over in the last hundred thousand years. 1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside Pref. p. xiv There have been at least five previous interglacials, spaced out between Ice Ages over the last million years. 2007 H. Svensmark & N. Calder Chilling Stars i. 23 The great warming that terminated the ice age was interrupted about 13,000 years ago by a severe re-chilling called the Younger Dryas. 2. A cold period occurring on another planet. ΚΠ 1893 N.Y. Commerc. Advertiser 14 Jan. 5/1 The ages of incrustation of the sun, when the planet Venus was yet a ring and hid the sun's face, were the ice age on this earth, and by consequence on each of the other planets, etc. 1952 Galaxy Sci. Fiction Dec. 100/2 Then it would be Venus's turn, and after that Earth would fall into the Sun to end an Ice Age on Mars. 1972 Pop. Sci. Sept. 126 I propose..that there are epochs in Martian history in which conditions are very different from today, that in fact we are examining Mars in an ice age. 2010 P. Schenk Atlas Galilean Satellites v. 41 Far from being locked in a perpetual ice age, Io is a Hadean world of hot volcanic lava flows, fiery lava fountains, and noxious gases. 3. In extended use and figurative. A period of extreme coldness, esp. in relations between people, states, etc. ΚΠ 1935 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 180 190/1 Another..war in which civilization will surely perish and a new ice age in international relations set in. 1966 Listener 10 Mar. 338/2 With..the certainty by 1950 that America and Russia both possessed atomic weapons, the world entered the new ice-age of the cold war between the big two. 1973 A. Price October Men ix. 122 The temperature was perhaps slightly less arctic now he had said his piece, but that was no sure sign that a second..ice age was not about to set in. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 July (Central ed.) a14/1 Nicholas I..cut Russia off from the West for 30 years and strengthened the authoritarian bureaucracy and secret police. The era is called Russia's ‘ice age’. Compounds General attributive and parasynthetic. Frequently hyphenated. ΚΠ 1875 Rec. Geol. Surv. India 8 18 The evidences for the glacial origin of these deposits is as conclusive as that for the ice-age formations of Europe. 1927 Daily Express 31 Aug. 5 The survival of some ice-age relicts in the freshwater fauna of Cardiganshire. 1957 C. Day Lewis Pegasus 24 Cold chisels of wind, ice-age-edged. 1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 13/2 People hunting mammoths on the shores of Ice Age lakes..left ivory spearheads. 1979 D. L. Dineley Fossils ii. 56 Deposits formed under ice-age conditions have assemblages like those associated with present-day northland floras. 2005 M. Bjornerud Reading Rocks Prol. 3 Backhoes uncovered a layer of spruce twigs and branches more than twenty feet down—vestiges of an Ice Age forest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1855
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