icenoun
uk/aɪs/us/aɪs/ice noun (FROZEN WATER)
A2 [ U ] water that has frozen and become solid, or pieces of this:
The pond was covered in ice all winter.
Would you like ice in your juice?
I've put a couple of bottles of champagne on ice (= in a container of ice to get cold).
He slipped on a patch of ice.
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- Snow and ice have caused chaos on the roads.
- A thick sheet of ice had formed over the water.
- When you get a build-up of ice in your freezer, you know it's time to defrost it.
- We skidded on the ice and crashed into another car.
- The ice clinked as she dropped it into the glass.
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Precipitation: snow & ice
- crevasse
- freeze
- freezing
- frost
- frosty
- glacial
- glaciation
- ground frost
- hailstorm
- hoarfrost
- ice cap
- Jack Frost
- moraine
- pack ice
- permafrost
- slushy
- snow line
- snowdrift
- snowfall
- snowflake
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ice noun (ICE CREAM)
[ C ] UK old-fashioned an ice cream, especially one bought in a shop:
The shop sign said "Drinks, Cakes, Ices!"
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Puddings, desserts & ices
- baked Alaska
- baklava
- banana split
- banoffee pie
- blancmange
- Eton mess
- flan
- fool
- fruit salad
- granita
- peach Melba
- plum pudding
- Popsicle
- pudding
- rice pudding
- syllabub
- tapioca
- tiramisù
- trifle
- water ice
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ice noun (JEWELLERY)
[ U ] informal jewellery, especially diamonds
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Jewellery
- badge
- bead
- beaded
- bindi
- bling
- charm bracelet
- choker
- clip-on
- coronet
- crown
- filigree
- fob
- knuckleduster
- pearl
- pendant
- precious stone
- semiprecious
- tiepin
- trinket
- wedding ring
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Idiom(s)
be on ice
iceverb [ T ]
uk/aɪs/us/aɪs/ice verb [ T ] (COVER CAKES)
UK US usually frost to cover a cake with icing (= a food made mainly with sugar):
I've made her a chocolate cake - now I just need to ice it.
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Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- cube
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- prep
- salt
- slow food
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
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ice verb [ T ] (KILL)
US slang to murder someone
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Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- butcher
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- necklace
- poison
- shoot sb down
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- throttle
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Phrasal verb(s)
ice over
ice up