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ice
cold temperatures COLD cold weather WEATHER, SNOW - water that is very cold and has become solid: ice (noun U) There's ice all over the roads. ◎ The ice on the pond was about four centimetres thick. ◎ thin/thick ice ◎ snow and ice ◎ Can I have some ice in my juice? - covered with ice, or as cold as ice: icy The roads are very icy. ◎ an icy wind - a very thin layer of small thin pieces of ice on the ground, the trees, etc: frost (noun U) The fields were covered in frost. - a large piece of ice: block of ice - a thin area of ice: sheet of ice The lake was covered with a thin sheet of ice. - a pointed piece of ice that is formed when very cold water falls or runs down from sth: icicle - a very large block of ice that is floating in the sea: iceberg - a mass of ice, formed by snow moving slowly down a hill or mountain into a valley: glacier - rain that falls in small hard balls of ice: hail (noun U); verb hail Look - it's hailing! - a small hard ball of hail: hailstone - a storm of hailstones: hailstorm - a small block of ice that you put in a drink to make it cold: ice cube - a drink with ice in it is iced iced tea - to change from water into ice: freeze*; adjective: frozen to prevent water in pipes freezing ◎ The pond was frozen but the ice wasn't thick enough to walk on. - water freezes and becomes ice when the temperature falls below zero, below freezing - the temperature at which water freezes: freezing-point (= 0※°C) - to become covered with ice: ice over/up The freezer completely iced up so I couldn't open the door. - to become liquid again after being frozen: melt The ice on the pond is melting at last. ※ frozen food FOOD ※ moving on ice - to move along a smooth surface: slide* Cars were sliding around on the icy road. ◎ to slide down a hill - to slide accidentally, lose your balance and fall or nearly fall: slip (over) I slipped over on the ice and hurt my head. - (used about a surface) difficult to move over because of frost or ice: slippery a slippery road/path - boots with thick metal blades on the bottom, that you wear to move around on ice: ice skates - to move over ice wearing ice skates: skate - a sharp metal tool used (especially by mountain climbers) to cut ice: ice-axe ※ more on skating SPORT
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